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Weather and tides: Time and Tide

Wind, weather and tide times for 605 UK ports, the Met Office shipping forecast and weather warnings, sun and moon times, and a Mayday panel for the worst day. Free, and built for a phone.

Open Time and Tide › Works best on a phone, added to your home screen

What it does

Pick your port (or let it find the nearest) and Time and Tide shows today's wind, weather, barometer and sea state, the tide curve with the next high and low water, a seven-day tide table and the moon phase. Star your usual ports for one-tap switching.

  • Sailing: the forecast, the tide, springs or neaps, and the port's tidal levels.
  • Fishing: solunar best times, sun and moon rise and set, and what is biting on your stretch of coast.
  • Shipping: the Met Office shipping forecast for your sea area, gale warnings and the weather warnings for your region, refreshed every hour.
  • Mayday: a red button that reads your position from the phone, writes out a Mayday or Pan Pan call in the coastguard's format, dials 999 and can flash SOS on the torch.

It keeps the last forecast and tides it saw, so it still shows something when the signal drops at sea.

Add it to your home screen

Time and Tide is a web app, so there is nothing to install from an app store. Open it in your phone's browser once, add it to the home screen, and from then on it opens full screen like any other app.

iPhone and iPad (Safari)

  1. Open Time and Tide in Safari.
  2. Tap the Share button (the square with an arrow pointing up).
  3. Scroll the list and tap Add to Home Screen, then Add.

Android (Chrome and most browsers)

  1. Open Time and Tide in your browser.
  2. Tap the browser's menu (the three dots, usually top right).
  3. Tap Add to Home screen or Install app, then confirm.

On a laptop it works too, in any modern browser, but the layout is a phone's: tall and narrow.

Where the data comes from

Tide predictions are the UK Hydrographic Office's EasyTide predictions for 605 ports around England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, with the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. Weather and marine conditions come from Open-Meteo. The shipping forecast and warnings are the Met Office's own, fetched hourly. Position comes from your phone and never leaves it. The app is free for personal use and not for navigation: always check the official sources before you go.

Something wrong, or a port missing? Tell the editor.