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Long Beach Tide Chart
Long Beach — the Queen Mary’s harbor city between LA and Orange County — runs Southern California’s classic mixed semidiurnal tide, about five feet of range behind the breakwater.
Upcoming tides in Long Beach
Live NOAA predictions for station 9410678 (Long Beach Fire Boat Pier).
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Heights in feet above MLLW, station local time. See the full interactive tide map.
The pattern
Two unequal highs and two unequal lows daily with around five feet of range. The massive breakwater calms the harbor but the tide still breathes through the entrances — and the spring tides’ minus lows open fine tide pooling on the rocky stretches.
Harbor fishing and Catalina
The harbor’s breakwaters and oil islands hold calico bass, sand bass, and halibut fished on moving water; Belmont Shore’s beach gives up surfperch. Long Beach is also a main gateway to Catalina Island — the ferries and sport boats run the channel daily.
Boating
Alamitos Bay and the harbor are the small-boat playgrounds; the LA/Long Beach port complex next door is serious ship traffic — stay clear of the channels. For the region, see our Southern California tide guide.