Explore accurate tide charts and tables for
Maryland fishing, shellfishing, boating and beach outings.
Stations and tide pools are covered in the map.
Popular: Annapolis • Baltimore • Cambridge • Chesapeake Beach • Crisfield • Havre de Grace • Ocean City • Point Lookout • Solomons Island • St. Michaels
Maryland Tide Stations
Beaverdam Creek: Smithville Road Bridge
Betterton: Sassafras River
Big Annemessex River: Colburn Creek • Long Point
Bishops Head: Hooper Strait
Bladensburg: Anacostia River
Broad Creek: Deep Neck Point
Bush River: Pond Point
Charlestown Marina: Boston
Chesapeake Bay: Barren Island • Chesapeake Beach • Cove Point • Holland Island • Hooper Island Light • Hooper Strait Light • Kent Island Narrows • Kent Point Marina • Long Beach • Middle Hooper Island • Pocomoke Sound • Point Lookout • Rhode River • Rose Haven • Sharkfin Shoal Light • Thomas Point Shoal Light • Tolchester Beach • Worton Creek entrance
Chester River: Chestertown • Cliffs Point • Cliffs Wharf • Crumpton • Love Point • Queenstown
Choptank River: Cambridge • Dover Bridge
Church Creek: Woolford
Claiborne: E Bay
Corsica River: Centreville
Deal Island: Chance
Dogwood Harbor: Avalon
Don Shipley's: Little Choptank River
Elk River: Old Frenchtown Wharf • Town Point Wharf
Fishing Bay: McCreedy's Creek
Fishing Pier: Ocean City
Hillsboro: Tuckahoe Creek
Isle of Wight Bay: Keydash • Ocean City
Kent Island: Matapeake
Little Annemessex River: Crisfield
Little Choptank River: Taylors Island
Magothy River: Cornfield Creek • Mountain Point
Manokin River: Teague Creek
Miles River: St. Michaels
Monie Bay: Great Shoals Light
Nanticoke River: Roaring Point • Sharptown • Vienna
Patapsco River: Baltimore • Fort McHenry Marsh • Hawkins Point • North Point • Stony Creek
Patuxent River: Benedict • Broomes Island • Lower Marlboro • Solomons Island
Pocomoke River: Shelltown • Snow Hill
Port Tobacco River: Goose Creek
Potomac River: Colton Point • Cornfield Harbor • Indian Head • Liverpool Point • Lower Cedar Point • Marshall Hall • Piney Point • Riverside
San Domingo Creek: St. Michaels
Severn River: Annapolis • Brewer Point
Sinepuxent Neck: South Point
Smith Island: Ewell
Smith Point: Clifton Beach
South River: Edgewater • Gingerville Creek
Susquehanna River: Havre de Grace • Port Deposit
Swan Creek: Deep Landing
Tilghman Island: Ferry Cove
Tred Avon River: Easton Point • Oxford
West River: Galesville
Wicomico River: Mills Point • Salisbury • Whitehaven
Best Tide Pools in Maryland
Maryland’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.
Assateague Island National Seashore - About 2.5 hours from Baltimore, this barrier island’s small tide pools along its rocky edges host crabs and barnacles at low tide.
Calvert Cliffs State Park - About 1.5 hours from Baltimore, this park’s tidal areas along its bay cliffs shelter crabs and periwinkles at low tide.
North Point State Park - Located 30 minutes from Baltimore, this park’s minor tidal zones along the Chesapeake Bay feature mussels and small fish at low tide.