Newport tide times

Newport is the largest city on the central Oregon coast and the home port of one of the biggest commercial fishing fleets on the Pacific Northwest. The Yaquina Bay gives the town its harbour access; the Yaquina Bay Bridge — a 1936 Art Deco steel arch — frames every view from the bayfront. Tidal range is mixed semidiurnal: mean range around 1.7 metres, spring highs reaching 2.4 m above MLLW and spring lows dropping to minus 0.5 m or lower.

The Yaquina Bay has strong tidal currents on the ebb and flood, particularly near the narrow entrance channel under the bridge. Fishing charter boats work their schedule around the tides — departing on the ebb to the offshore fishing grounds and returning on the flood. The bay mouth is treacherous in combined surf and ebb current conditions; the US Coast Guard station at Newport monitors the bar and can issue bar closures when conditions exceed safe thresholds.

The Newport bayfront is a working waterfront — trawlers unload Dungeness crab, albacore, and bottom fish alongside the tourist-facing restaurants and the Oregon Coast Aquarium. The aquarium houses Steller sea lions, sea otters, and a walking-through-sharks tube and is one of the better aquariums on the Pacific coast. The Hatfield Marine Science Center (Oregon State University) is adjacent and offers free public exhibits on Oregon ocean science.

For shore anglers, the south jetty at the Yaquina Bay entrance is the most productive public fishing structure in Newport. Perch, greenling, and rockfish concentrate around the jetty rocks year-round; Dungeness crab pots can be dropped off the jetty walls. The north jetty (across the bay from the south) is also productive but less accessible. Surfing is primarily at Agate Beach, 3 kilometres north of the bridge, where the open coast provides beach break on northwest swells.

Tide clamming for razor clams is occasionally open at the beaches south of Newport (Beverly Beach, Ona Beach) when ODFW issues approvals after domoic acid testing. Checking is worthwhile; seasons can close at short notice. Bay mussels are harvestable from the jetty rocks when open — the ODFW hotline (1-800-ASK-FISH) gives current status.

Predictions on this page come from Open-Meteo Marine, a gridded global ocean model. Accuracy is typically within plus or minus 45 minutes on timing and 0.2 to 0.3 metres on height — model-derived, not from a local gauge. For authoritative US tide data, consult NOAA CO-OPS at tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov.