Next high tide at Virginia Beach (CBBT), VA: 06:07 GMT-4, 0.77 m / 2.5ft

Tide times at Virginia Beach (CBBT), VA on Sunday, 26 April 2026: first low tide at 11:45pm. Sunrise 06:15am, sunset 07:49pm.

Tide curve — next 24 hours

Predictions: NOAA CO-OPS station 8638863 — heights relative to MLLW.

Harmonic prediction from the official tide authority. Very high accuracy under normal conditions; storm surge may shift actual water level. Not for navigation.

Best windows Sun 26 Apr

Suggested time slots at Virginia Beach (CBBT), VA, derived from the tide, sun, moon, and conditions data on this page. Rough guidance, not a forecast.

• Tidepooling
  Around 23:45, lowest tide today
  Tide drops to 0.07 m for about an hour either side
  Confidence: medium
  7-day tidepooling strip →
• SUP
  Around 23:45, low water
  Slack water around the low
  Confidence: low
  7-day sup strip →
• Fishing
  Around 03:41, solunar major near sunrise
  Moon transit nearest the sun's horizon — angler tradition only, no certainty
  Confidence: medium
  7-day fishing strip →
• Beach walk
  Around 23:45, beach widest
  Tide low — sand widest within an hour or two of the dip
  Confidence: medium
  7-day beach walk strip →

Spring & neap tides at Virginia Beach (CBBT), VA

Next spring tide on Thu 30 Apr (range 0.9m / 2.9ft). Next neap on Wed 29 Apr.

Spring tides cluster around new and full moons (biggest swings). Neap tides land on quarter moons (smallest swings). See the spring tide and neap tide glossary entries for the why.

About tides at Virginia Beach (CBBT), VA

The Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel gauge sits where the open Atlantic meets the mouth of Chesapeake Bay between Cape Charles to the north and Cape Henry on the Virginia Beach side to the south. It is one of the most-watched gauges on the US Mid-Atlantic — the brackish estuary that drains the entire Chesapeake watershed empties through this 28 km wide opening, and the tide cycle here drives both the Bay's flushing and the surf and shipping conditions across the Hampton Roads. Mean range at the CBBT is about 0.9 metres, semidiurnal, with two highs and two lows of comparable size each day, twelve and a half hours apart. Spring tides push close to 1.1 metres at the new and full moons; neaps drop near 0.7. Inside the Bay the range compresses further as the basin widens toward Annapolis and the Potomac. Surfers along the long sand at Sandbridge and First Landing read the table for low-tide bar reshaping. Surf-fishers at Lynnhaven Inlet and Rudee Inlet time their casts to the change. Walkers on the long beach in front of the resort high-rises at Virginia Beach see roughly 30 metres of horizontal beach width difference between high and low water on a spring tide. Nor'easter surge in autumn and winter and tropical-storm surge in late summer can both stack water levels well above predicted; the harmonic predictions on this page assume normal weather. NOAA CO-OPS station 8638863 is the authoritative gauge.

Common questions about tides at Virginia Beach (CBBT), VA