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Lewes & Rehoboth Beach Tide Chart
Lewes — where the Delaware Bay meets the Atlantic, with Rehoboth’s beaches just south — runs a four-to-five-foot semidiurnal tide that times the flounder bite and the ferry schedule.
Upcoming tides in Lewes
Live NOAA predictions for station 8557380 (Lewes).
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Heights in feet above MLLW, station local time. See the full interactive tide map.
The pattern
Two highs and two lows daily with four to five feet of range. The bay side and the ocean beaches fish slightly different stages — and the Cape May–Lewes Ferry crossing the bay mouth rides the same tide.
Flounder and surf
The Lewes canal, the bay’s channels, and the reef sites are flounder territory fished on moving water; weakfish and stripers run the bay in season. Rehoboth’s surf gives up stripers and bluefish in the fall migration.
Boating
Roosevelt Inlet is the ocean gateway — mind the ebb against ocean swell. The bay’s shallows outside the channels go skinny at low water. For the region, see our Mid-Atlantic tide guide.