Playa Ramírez tide times

Playa Ramírez sits at the western end of Montevideo's beach strip, immediately east of the Parque Rodó headland and roughly 2 km from Ciudad Vieja. It is the city's most wind-exposed urban beach — the aspect of the beach, open to the SW across the full width of the Río de la Plata, makes it the default venue for kite flying, windsurfing in season, and the most consistent breeze in the city. On most afternoons from October through March, the SW river wind arrives reliably by 13:00.

The tide here is the same microtidal Plata regime as the rest of Montevideo: astronomical range 0.3–0.6 m, dominated by wind surge rather than the moon. The beach at Ramírez faces south-southwest; Parque Rodó's tree-lined promenade is immediately behind it. The beach width at the sand line changes visibly between the predicted astronomical high and low — typically 15–25 m of sand exposed at low water beyond the high-water mark — but the dominant driver of beach width on a given day is the wind-surge state rather than the tidal cycle.

At low water the outer sand bar at Ramírez is exposed 40–60 m from the beach face; the bar is walkable in warm weather. During a mild sudestada the water can push the beach back to the seawall steps before the astronomical high is even reached; during a pampero the beach can be wider than a full spring low would normally produce.

The beach has lifeguard coverage from December through February (the Uruguayan summer). The main activities are swimming in the designated bathing zone, kite flying along the upper beach, and windsurfing from the western access ramp when SW wind exceeds 15 knots. The kite-flying scene at Ramírez is well-organised — the beach is wide enough at low water to keep kite activity separated from the bathing zone.

From the Ramírez rambla section, shore-fishing targets pejerrey and corvina along the groyne structures to the east. The fishing here is the same estuary-style fishing as the rest of the Montevideo Rambla; tide state is secondary to water temperature and season. Open-Meteo Marine provides the predictions here: accuracy ±45 min / ±0.2–0.3 m. SOHMA is the authoritative source for Uruguayan coastal data.

Parque Rodó immediately behind the beach contains the Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales (the largest art museum in Uruguay), the Planetarium, and a boating lake. The park is separated from the beach by the Rambla; the beach walkway connects through a pedestrian crossing. At high water or during a minor sudestada surge, the wave wash occasionally reaches the lower level of the Rambla promenade adjacent to the park entrance; this is not unusual and does not require evacuation, but it limits access to the lower ramp sections.

The beach is also a regular venue for open-water swimming events organised by the Montevideo open-water clubs; the flat, calm estuary surface and the short distances between the beach buoys make it suitable for training swims of 1–3 km parallel to shore. The lack of surf and the low current make it the safest open-water training venue in Montevideo's beach strip.

The Malecón at Ramírez sits 3 m above the beach level at its lowest point; during significant sudestada surge events (water level above 0.8 m above the predicted astronomical level), wave wash reaches the Rambla wall base. These events occur several times per year; the Rambla is designed to withstand them, but walking the lower promenade during an active sudestada is inadvisable. The SOHMA storm-surge watch system issues advisories for events expected to exceed 0.5 m above predicted level. Combining tide state with the weather forecast gives the best planning information for any low-lying beach access at Ramírez.