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The tide, where you're standing.
Start with one decision: when to fish, paddle, launch, explore, photograph, or check the shoreline. Perigee combines the tide, wind, water, and sky—then shows why the window received its read and which inputs are fresh or missing.
Checking conditions · San Francisco
Looking at wind, tide, water, and daylight…
San Francisco, California
Sta. 9414290Featured stationToday’s featured station. for a nearby coastal read.
One Perigee · three clear products
Choose the workspace that matches the job
Tides is for a personal coastal plan. Trip Watch is for teams running scheduled outings. Developer is for products that need Perigee data and decision signals.
For individuals · you are here
Perigee Tides
Plan a day on the coast with a transparent read of tide, wind, water, and sky.
Open My Tides →
For coastal operators
Trip Watch
Monitor scheduled trips and focus the team on material changes.
Explore Trip Watch →
For builders
Perigee Developer
Ship coastal data through REST, MCP, webhooks, and SDKs.
Explore Developer →
Perigee for iPhone and Android
The whole coast, in your pocket.
Carry your Today brief, saved stations, planning windows, alerts, and local tide context past the browser and onto the dock.
Free to download · Optional Tides Plus · Planning aid, not for navigation
The soundings
Everything the gauge hears
Water
- Observed water levels to six-minute resolution
- Tide predictions, high/low or continuous curve
- Currents by depth bin, with flood and ebb direction
- Flood thresholds and sea level trends per station
Weather
- Wind speed, gusts, and direction at the water's edge
- Air and water temperature, pressure, visibility
- Sea level trends and high-tide flooding counts
- Extreme water level statistics per station
Sky
- Moon phase, illumination, age, and distance
- Sunrise, sunset, twilights, and golden hour
- Next new and full moons for any date
- Computed locally — works for any point on Earth
Activity planner
Plan around the water, not the table
Choose an activity and Perigee turns tide height, wind, daylight, moon, and observed water level into a plain-English read.
Fishing
Time tide movement against dawn, dusk, moon phase, wind, and water temperature.
Boating
Check departure windows from wind, daylight, observed water, and the next tide.
Surf/Paddle
Match lighter wind and wave signals with the tide stage you prefer.
Beachcombing
Spot daylight low-water windows and falling-tide access on the flats.
Photography
Pair golden hour and moonlight with the water height that shapes the scene.
Coastal living
Check high-water timing, observed level, wind, and shoreline context.
Find your station
From Eastport to Pago Pago, if NOAA keeps a gauge there, it's on the chart.
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