2013 tide table and solunar charts for Portland Island for planning your fishing expedition
Tide tables and solunar tables for sport fishers in Portland Island. Find out the forecast for high tides and low tides before setting out to fish, and other fishing-related data such as the lunar phase, tidal coefficient, sun and moon rising and setting times, hours of maximum fish activity, weather conditions in Portland Island ...
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Tide Chart: high tides and low tides in Portland Island
today 
Today Tuesday, 18th of June of 2013, the sun rose in Portland Island at 7:27 am and sunset was at 4:52 pm. The moon set at 1:01 am at 263º west. Then, the moon rose at 100º east at 12:42 pm.
In the high tide and low tide chart, we can see that the first low tide was at 6:06 am and the next low tide at 6:31 pm. The only high tide of the day was at 12:18 pm.
The lunar phase is a Waxing Gibbous. Today we had 9 hours and 25 minutes of sun. The solar transit was at 12:10 pm and the length of time the moon will be visible will be 12 hours and 19 minutes.
The tidal coefficient today is 59 (average). At noon the tidal coefficient increases to 63 to end the day with a tidal coefficient of 67. The tide heights today are 0.3 m, 1.6 m and 0.3 m. We can compare these levels with the maximum high tide recorded in the tide tables for Portland Island which is of 1.9 m and a minimum height of 0.0 m.
Solunar chart for Portland Island
today
The solunar fishing calendar in Portland Island tells us that today is a bad day for fishing, the fish activity forecast is low, however, this is just a chance so we encourage you to take your rod and try it during solunar periods. Please, read more about solunar tables. The best times of day for fishing are:
 from 1:01 am to 2:01 am, low activity minor period (moonset) from 6:51 am to 8:51 am, average activity  Major period (moon down). This period also coincides with sunrise; therefore the sun will exercise more influence, possibly obtaining greater activity than expected from 12:42 pm to 1:42 pm, low activity minor period (moonrise) from 7:24 pm to 9:24 pm, average activity Major period (moon up) |
Tide timetable for Portland Island
June 2013
Tide timetable for Portland Island. The times are generated in local time in Hawke´s Bay and the daylight saving time change is calculated automatically, so you don't need to add or subtract anything. You will also have the lunar phase, sunrise and sunset times, the tidal coefficient and the average fish activity forecast for each day according to the solunar tables:
[ 0 low activity ] , [ 
average activity ] , [ high activity ] , [ very high activity ]
NOTE: The times reflected in the tide table for Portland Island are tide forecasts only valid as references for sport fishing. They shouldn't be used as a guide for navigation. The heights are expressed in meters referenced to Mean Lower Low Water (MLLW).
MLLW is the average of the lower low water height of each tidal day observed over the official time segment over which tide observations are taken and reduced to obtain mean value (Tidal Datum Epoch).
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