Explore accurate tide charts and tables for
Alaska fishing, shellfishing, boating and beach outings.
Stations and tide pools are covered in the map.
Popular: Anchor Point • Anchorage • Cordova • Craig • Dutch Harbor • Elfin Cove • Gustavus • Haines • Halibut Cove • Homer • Hoonah • Juneau • Kenai • Ketchikan • Kodiak • Metlakatla • Nikiski • Ninilchik • Nome • Petersburg • Port Alexander • Sand Point • Seldovia • Seward • Sitka • Skagway • Valdez • Whittier • Wrangell • Yakutat
Alaska Tide Stations
Adak Island: Adak • Adak Bight • Bay of Waterfalls • Boot Bay • Unalga Bight
Admiralty Island: Eliza Harbor • Whitewater Bay
Adugak Islands: Umnak Island
Afognak Island: Izhurt Bay • Seal Bay • Tonki Bay
Agattu Island: Otkriti Bay
Aialik Bay: Aialik Sill • Camp Cove • North end
Aialik Peninsula: Agnes Cove • Bear Cove
Akun Island: Trident Bay
Akutan Island: Reef Bight
Aleutian Islands: Akun Island • Akutan Island • Beaver Bay • Bogoslof Island • Chankliut Island • Chiachi Island, Perryville • Chuginadak Island • Fenimore Pass • Perryville • Shemya Island • Sutwik Island • Tigalda Island • Ukolnoi Island • Unavikshak Island • West Herbert Island
Amchitka Island: Constantine Harbor
Anchorage Bay: Chignik Bay
Andreanof Islands: Bechevin Bay
Annette Island: Annette
Atka Island: Atka Pass • Cape Utalug • Explorer Bay • Sagchudak Island
Attu Island: Chichagof Harbor • Etienne Bay • Holtz Bay • Steller Cove
Auke Bay: Slatter Harbor
Balboa Bay: Albatross Anchorage
Baranof Island: Port Alexander • Port Walter • Red Bluff Bay
Barren Islands: Ushagat Island
Bear Bay: Bear Bay Island
Bering Sea: St. Matthew Island • St. Paul Island • Tin City
Bering Strait: Red Dog Mine
Berner's Bay: Cove Point
Biverly Inlet: Biorka Village
Blying Sound: Day Harbor
Bristol Bay: Amak Island • Port Heiden • Port Moller
Bucareli Bay: Craig
Cape Newenham: Hagemeister Island
Castle Bay: Northwest Arm
Catherine Island: Point Thatcher
Chatham Straight: Hawk Inlet
Chichagof Island: Freshwater Bay
Chilkat Inlet: Letnikof Cove
Cholmondeley Sound: Divide Head • Lancaster Cove
Coal Bay: Seal Cape
Cold Bay: Cold Bay • Cold Bay • Lenard Harbor
Controller Bay: Wingham Island
Cook Inlet: Anchor Point • Anchorage • Cape Ninilchik • Drift River Term • East Foreland • Fire Island • Iliamna Bay • Kenai • Kenai Pier • Nikiski • Ninilchik • Port Chatham • Port Graham • Sadie Cove • Seldovia • Snug Harbor • Tutka Bay • Tuxedni Channel
Cook Inlet, Kamishak Bay: Nordyke Island • Oil Bay
Copper River Delta: Pete Dahl Slough
Cross Sound: Elfin Cove
Culross Passage: Long Bay Entrance
Dall Island: Sakie Bay • Sea Otter Harbor • Security Cove
Dangerous Passage: Chenega Island
Davidson Inlet: Edna Bay • El Capitan Island • Marble Island • Naukati Bay
Deer Passage: King Cove
Delarof Islands: Gareloi Island • Ogliuga Island
Dillingham: Snag Point
Dixon Harbor: Palma Bay
Dolgoi Island: Dolgoi Island • Dolgoi Island
Douglas Island: Fritz Cove
Duke Island: Kelp Island Passage • Morse Cove
Eenayarak River: Apokak Creek Entrance
Egegik River: Egegik • Egegik River Entrance
Etolin Island: Streamer Bay
Evans Island: Sawmill Bay
Eyak River: Center Slough Entrance
Favorite Channel: Young Bay
Fish Bay: Haley Anchorage
Frederick Sound: Brown Cove • Cosmos Point • Dry Strait • Herring Bay • Jap Bay • Leconte Bay • Thomas Bay
Funter Bay: Barlow Cove
Gambier Bay: Cannery Wharf • Good Island
Gastineau Channel: Juneau
George Inlet: Coon Island
Glacier Bay: Bartlett Cove • Composite Island • Graves Harbor • Muir Inlet • Willoughby Island
Glacier Island: Jackson Cove
Golf Island: Necker Island
Goodnews Bay: Goodnews Bay entrance
Goose Island: Mud Bay
Gravina Island: Nehenta Bay
Green Island: Gibbon Anchorage
Gulf of Esquibel: Anguilla Island
Hagemeister Strait: Estus Point
Harris Bay: Crater Bay • Two Arm Bay • Upper Northwestern Fiord
Hawkins Island: Windy Bay
Heceta Island: Port Alice
Hetta Inlet: Copper Harbor • Mud Bay • Sulzer
Hinchinbrook Island: Johnstone Point
Holkham Bay: Tracy Arm entrance
Hoonah Sound: Fairway Island
Icy Bay: Point Riou • Tyndall Glacier
Icy Strait: Excursion Inlet • Excursion Inlet entrance • Flynn Cove • Gustavus • Hoonah • Swanson Harbor
Ikatan Bay: Unimak Island
Isanotski Strait: False Pass
Izembek Lagoon: Grant Point
Kachemak Bay: Bear Cove • Halibut Cove • Homer
Kagalaska Island: Laska Cove
Kaigani Strait: American Bay
Kanaga Island: Cape Chlanak • Cape Chunu • Kanaga Bay • Shoal Point
Kasaan Bay: Hollis • Kasaan • Lindeman Cove • Sportsman's Cove Lodge
Kasnyku Bay: Hidden Falls
Kasook Inlet: Sukkwan Island
Kazakof Bay: Marmot Bay
Keku Strait: Kake • Monte Carlo Island • Sumner Island • The Summit
Kenai Peninsula: Anchor Point
Killisnoo Island: Whaler's Cove Lodge
Kiska Island: Gertrude Cove • Kiska Harbor
Kizhuyak Bay: Kizhuyak Point • Port Lions
Klag Bay: Elbow Passage
Knight Island: Herring Point • Point Helen • Port Audrey • Snug Harbor
Kodiak Island: Chirikof Island • Chowiet Island • Kodiak • Kodiak Station • Kodiak USCG Dock • Three Saints Bay • Viekoda Bay
Kootznahoo Inlet: Mitchell Bay
Korovin Bay: Martin Harbor
Kosciusko Island: Pole Anchorage • Shakan Strait
Kotzebue Sound: Kiwalik • Kotzebue
Kuiu Island: Affleck Canal • Point St. Albans • Port Beauclerc • Port Malmesbury • Port McArthur • Reid Bay • Saginaw Bay • Table Bay
Kuiukta Bay: Hump Island
Kukak Bay: Aguchik Island
Kupreanof Island: Portage Bay
Kupreanof Peninsula: Fox Bay
Kupreanof Strait: Dry Spruce Island • Marmot Bay • Nachalni Island • Onion Bay
Kuskowkwim River: Bethel
Kvichak Bay: Middle Bluff
Kvichak River: Kvichak • Levelock
Liesnoi Island: Eliza Harbor
Lisianski Inlet: Canoe Cove (north pass)
Lisianski Strait and Inlet: Miner Island
Lynn Canal: Funter Bay • Haines • Lincoln Island • Skagway • Taiyasanka Harbor • William Henry Bay
Marmot Bay: Spruce Island
Marmot Strait: Marmot Island
Massacre Bay: Attu
Misty Fjord: Rudyerd Bay
Mitchell Bay: Mitchell Bay • Mitchell Bay
Mitkof Island: Ideal Cove
Moira Sound: Niblack Anchorage
Montague Island: Hanning Bay • Macleod Harbor • Patton Bay • Perch Point • Point Brazil • Port Chalmers • Wooded Islands
Moser Bay: Trap Point
Nagai Island: Mist Harbor
Naha Bay: Loring
Naknek River: King Salmon • Naknek • Omakstalia Point
Nazan Bay: Atka Island, Atka
North Side: Amukta Island
North Slope: Cross Island • Staines River entrance, Flaxman Island
Norton Sound: Golovnin • Nome • Pikmiktalik River • St. Michael
Noyes Island: Steamboat Bay
Nuka Bay: Beauty Bay
Nushagak Bay: Clarks Point • Protection Point • Snag Point
Nutkwa Inlets: Keete Island
Ogden Passage: Kimshan Cove
Olga Strait: Olga Point
Orca Inlet: Gravel Point • Orca • Shag Rock
Paul Island: Kupreanof Harbor
Pavlof Bay: Canoe Bay • Settlement Point
Perry Island: South Bay
Popof Island: Pirate Cove • Sand Point
Portage Bay: Kanatak Lagoon
Port Bainbridge: Hogg Bay
Port Chester: Metlakatla
Port Dick: Takoma Cove
Port Etches: Hinchinbrook Island
Port Fidalgo: Landlocked Bay • Snug Corner Cove
Port Gravina: Comfort Cove
Portland Canal: Davis River entrance
Port Nellie Juan: Kings Bay
Port Snettisham: Crib Point • Point Styleman
Povorotni Island: Pogibshi Point
Prince of Wales Island: Ingraham Bay • Menefee Anchorage • Port Protection • Ratz Harbor
Prince of Whales Island: Hunter Bay • Kosciusko Island, Shakan Bay Entrance • Tah Bay
Prince William Sound: Applegate Island • Cordova • Eshamy Bay • Eshamy Lagoon • Guguak • Latouche • Naked Island • Smith Island • Storey Island • SW Chenega Island • Valdez • Whittier
Prudhoe Bay: STP Dock #1 • STP Dock #2
Pybus Bay: Cannery Cove
Ragged Island: Chance Cove
Raspberry Strait: Dolphin Point
Resurrection Bay: Seward
Revillagigedo Channel: Boca de Quadra • Fitzgibbon Cove • Kah Shakes Cove • Nakat Harbor • Ward Cove
Revillagigedo Island: Alva Bay
Robert Islands: Port Houghton
Rocky Bay: Picnic Harbor
Rodman Bay: Point Elizabeth
Salisbury Sound: Kruzof Island
Sanak Islands: Peterson Bay • Sanak Harbor
Sanborn Harbor: Nagai Island
Sea Otter Sound: Cyrus Cove
Sedanka Island: Udamat Bay
Sequam Island: Finch Cove
Sergius Narrows: Sergius Narrows • Sergius Narrows
Seymour Canal: Rasp Ledge
Shelikof Strait: Katmai Bay • Malina Bay • Nukshak Island • Takli Island
Shishmaref Inlet: Shishmaref Inlet • Shishmaref Inlet
Shumagin Islands: East Korovin Island • Zachary Bay
Shuyak Island: Andreon Bay • Big Bay • Carry Inlet
Shuyak Strait: Redfox Bay
Sitkalidak Island: Old Harbor
Sitka Sound: Biorka Island • Sitka
Sitkinak Island: Sitkinak Lagoon
Sitkin Island: Bugle Point • Sand Bay
Slocum Arm: Falcon Arm
Snow Passage: Bushy Island
Spruce Island: Ouzinkie
St. George Island: Zapadni Bay
St. Lawrence Island: Fossil River entrance • Niyrakpak Lagoon entrance
Stephens Passage: Holkham Bay, Wood Spit • The Brothers Islands • Windham Bay
Stepovak Bay: Dent Point
Stikine Strait: Reef Point
Stuart Island: North Bay
Taku Harbor: Tiger Olsen Cabin
Taku Inlet: Greely Point • Taku Point
Tanaga Island: Hot Springs Bay • Lash Bay • Tanaga Bay
Tebenkof Bay: Orel Anchorage
Tenakee Inlet: Tenakee Springs
Thorne Arm: Mop Point
Tlevak Strait: Hydaburg • Natalia Point • North Pass, West End • Soda Bay • South Pass, Sukkwan Strait • Tlevak Narrows • View Cove
Tongass Narrows: Ketchikan
Tongrass Narrows: Vallendar Point
Tracy Arm: Stewart Glacier, Sawyer Island
Ugak Bay: Saltery Cove
Uganik Bay: Northeast Arm • Uganik Passage • Village Islands
Umnak Island: Cape Sagak • Driftwood Bay • Inanudak Bay • Kigul Island • Okee Bay • Otter Point
Unalaska Island: Amaknak Island • Anderson Bay • Chernofski Harbor • Dutch Harbor • Eagle Bay • English Bay • Kashega Bay • Kisselen Bay • Kukak, Kukak Bay • Kuliliak Bay • Raven Bay • Skan Bay • Udagak Strait • Usof Bay
Unalga Island: Malga Bay
Unimak Island: Cape Mordvinof • Cape Sarichef • Dora Harbor • Scotch Cap • St. Catherine Cove
Uyak Bay: Larsen Bay • Mining Camp • Uyak • Zachar Bay
Valdez Arm: Jack Bay • Rocky Point
Walrus Islands: Black Rock
Warm Spring Bay: Baranof
Wells Passage: Culross Bay
Whale Island: Fox Bay
Whale Passage: Thorne Island
Whitney Island: Cleveland Passage
Wide Bay: Lees Cabins
Windfall Harbor: Seymour Canal
Woewodski Island: Point Lockwood
Wrangell Island: Greys Island
Wrangell Narrows: Beecher Pass • Wrangell
Yakobi Island: Surge Bay • Takanis Bay
Yakutat Bay: Johnstone Passage • Point Latouche • Redfield Cove • Yakutat
Yukon River: Apoon Mouth • Kawanak Pass entrance
Yunaska Island: East Cove • North Side
Zimovia Strait: Thoms Point • Village Rock
Best Tide Pools in Alaska
Alaska’s coastline offers unique tidepooling opportunities. Below are some top spots known for their marine life. Tidepools are marked on the Map tab above in red. The titles below are linked to the tide page that supports that locations tide pool charts.
Auke Recreation Area Beach (Juneau) - About 15-20 minutes north of downtown Juneau, Auke Rec Beach offers sheltered, family-friendly tide pools along its pebbly/rocky shore with pavilions, picnic areas, and calm waters. During minus tides, explore for sea stars, anemones, urchins, crabs, sculpins, and small fish—great for beginners and kids. Scenic views of mountains and islands; free parking and first-come shelters make it ideal for relaxed outings near the capital.
Bishop's Beach - Just minutes from downtown Homer on the Kenai Peninsula, Bishop's Beach is one of Alaska's most accessible and popular tidepool spots, perfect for families with easy parking and a wide, walkable shoreline. At minus low tides, rocky areas and cobble beaches reveal sea stars, anemones, hermit crabs, chitons, mussels, barnacles, small fish, and occasional octopuses amid dramatic views of Kachemak Bay and volcanoes. Combine with nearby Diamond Creek access for more exploration; a favorite for locals and visitors, sturdy boots recommended for slippery kelp.
Kachemak Bay Shoreline - Along the Homer side of Kachemak Bay (accessible beaches like Coal Point or Bluff Point trails), extreme tides expose expansive rocky zones bursting with resilient marine life: sea stars, giant anemones, chitons, limpets, crabs, mussels, and urchins adapted to cold waters. Family accessible with trails from town; guided tours available across the bay for deeper spots. Dramatic and educational, best at extreme minus tides; views of glaciers add wonder.
Rotary Beach (Ketchikan) - About 3.5 miles south of downtown Ketchikan, Rotary Beach (also called Bugge Beach) is a beloved family spot with a unique warmed saltwater pond, playground, picnic shelters, fire pits, and excellent tidepooling along its sandy/rocky shore. At low tide, kids delight in finding sea stars, anemones, urchins, hermit crabs, snails, small octopuses, eels, and clams, often with bald eagles overhead. Easy public access via road or bus; a classic Southeast Alaska beach day with restrooms and grills.