Monty's 2026 Tide tables

[MontyMariner]

2026 Tide tables for Dover Poole & Cherbourg are now available to download from my website.
Dover Tides 2026 : Monty Mariner
Poole Tides 2026 : Monty Mariner
Cherbourg Tide Tables 2026 : Monty Mariner
There are also links to CI Tables
Weymouth, CI's, La Manche Tide Links : Monty Mariner

Enjoy

 

[Mark-1]

2026 Tide tables for Dover Poole & Cherbourg are now available to download from my website.
Dover Tides 2026 : Monty Mariner
Poole Tides 2026 : Monty Mariner
Cherbourg Tide Tables 2026 : Monty Mariner
There are also links to CI Tables
Weymouth, CI's, La Manche Tide Links : Monty Mariner

Enjoy

People do view these. A mate was discussing a trip with me over WhatsApp this year and he sent me a set of familiar tide images for his plan - yours.

 

[alahol2]

I print copies every year, one for the boat, one for home, sometimes one for a mate. Very grateful for the resource. Thanks.

 

[MontyMariner]

I print copies every year, one for the boat, one for home, sometimes one for a mate. Very grateful for the resource. Thanks.

As they are images, they are handy to copy to your phone \ tablet for quick reference via your photo viewer.

 

[dunedin]

As they are images, they are handy to copy to your phone \ tablet for quick reference via your photo viewer.

But to be fair, if want tides on phone or tablet (as I do) much better using something like Absolute Tides than trying to look at images of prints

Personally I stopped printing sheets of tides a decade ago.

 

[alahol2]

But to be fair, if want tides on phone or tablet (as I do) much better using something like Absolute Tides than trying to look at images of prints

Personally I stopped printing sheets of tides a decade ago.

I can and do use various sources, almanac, phone, plotter etc. But, especially for Poole, I like to have the tides on a sheet that gives me an overview for several days at a time. I find the Poole tides rather confusing until I've been operating around them for a few days.

 

[MontyMariner]

much better using something like Absolute Tides than trying to look at images of prints

Fair enough, if you have a signal, or does Absolute Tides work off line?
Also not many apps are good at predicting Poole.

 

[dunedin]

Fair enough, if you have a signal, or does Absolute Tides work off line?
Also not many apps are good at predicting Poole.

Poole is not somewhere I sail so wouldn't know how good Absolute Tides app is for there. I do know that, unlike some other apps, the data matches official UKHO times and heights.

This was their view of Pooole Harbour Entrance for today

 

[Mark-1]

the data matches official UKHO times and heights.

....if only the tides did.

 

[dunedin]

....if only the tides did.

Of course. Tides often fail to read the tables - especially in Scotland

 

[MontyMariner]

This was their view of Pooole Harbour Entrance for today

Your tables:
H 1925 1.9

My tables for the same day:
Nov 18
L 0203 1.0
H 0716 2.1 First H
L 0943 1.9
H 1115 2.0 Second H
L 1427 1.0
H 1908 2.0 First H
L 2209 1.7
H 2342 1.8 Second H

High shown is in the ball-park, a time scale would have been handy.

 

[alahol2]

And this is what the Real time data looked like... No criticism either way, just an obsevation on the way predictions are predictions, not fact...
(Bournemouth is about 3.5 miles east of Poole entrance.)

 

[dunedin]

Your tables:
H 1925 1.9

My tables for the same day:
Nov 18
L 0203 1.0
H 0716 2.1 First H
L 0943 1.9
H 1115 2.0 Second H
L 1427 1.0
H 1908 2.0 First H
L 2209 1.7
H 2342 1.8 Second H

High shown is in the ball-park, a time scale would have been handy.

As i said, I am no expert on Poole harbour, but rather posted regarding the use of Absolute Tides app in response to your suggestion in Post #4 that "As they are images, they are handy to copy to your phone \ tablet for quick reference via your photo viewer". I am sure your tables on the website are a great addition for those who prefer to print paper tide tables, and very welcome.

But it is very much a question of using tools in the best way for the medium. I posted an example of the Poole Harbour Entrance tide curve from the app, but your attempt to summarise in a tabular format is again, I would suggest, taking the wrong approach. In a place with a complex (non sine) tide curve, and an app which can give a tidal curve with one tap, why would one try to convert that back to tabular format?

The tide curve clearly shows 4 HWs during the 24 hour period. And the 19:25 time was simply when I took the screenshot, not an "official" HW time (although of no real relevance, the tabular version gave 19:14 as a HW time, for all practical purposes pretty similar to your 19:08). And I don't know what numbers the underlying prediction models came up with, but if one was 1.949m and one 1.950m (ie just 1mm different) these would be represented as 1.9m and 2.0m to 2dp. So again no material difference.

Out of interest, what source do you use for the Poole tides? Being more local, do you have access to a better source than the UKHO Admiralty one (eg Poole Pilots)?

Keep up the good work with your website

 

[Boathook]

I use easy tide from the Admiralty. Only shows time from one high water but the graph does show the 'stand'.

I have found in the past that various tide tables give a different period for the 'stand' for Poole and Christchurch.

 

[MontyMariner]

Out of interest, what source do you use for the Poole tides? Being more local, do you have access to a better source than the UKHO Admiralty one (eg Poole Pilots)?

Sorry, I missed the point you were making.
As for sources, for online source I use Tide tables - BBC Weather (Tidal information supplied by the UK Hydrographic Office.)
Offline I use wxtides