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Port Townsend Tide Chart
Port Townsend — the Victorian seaport at the northeast tip of the Olympic Peninsula — answers to a big mixed semidiurnal tide of around seven feet where Puget Sound meets the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
Upcoming tides in Port Townsend
Live NOAA predictions for station 9444900 (Port Townsend).
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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 a range around seven feet — classic Puget Sound. The tide floods the bay and drains the beaches, and the currents stack up where the Sound narrows into the Strait.
Salmon and crab
Kings and coho stage off the town on the tide change; Dungeness crab pots soak the bay’s edges. The Wooden Boat Festival each September times its harbor events around the tide.
Boating
Admiralty Inlet runs hard on big exchanges — plan crossings near slack. The Strait side is open water; the bay side is sheltered but shoal in spots. For the region, see our Pacific Northwest tides guide.