Holkham Beach tide times

Open sands at Holkham Gap, beyond the pines. The flood comes in fast across flat ground and fills the channels behind you — know the turn of the tide before you walk out.

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02:40 BST ±40 min

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Tide size: 5.5 m
size of tide, not depth here · at Immingham
Tide: Neap
Weather then: 10°C · Dry

Holkham Beach tide table: next 7 days, high and low tide

times in BST · high ±40 · low ±70

High and low tide times for Holkham Beach over the next seven days, split into early and late, in local time. High waters are accurate to ±40 minutes and low waters to ±70 minutes. Heights are metres above chart datum at the Immingham reference, not the depth of water here.
Day	Early	Late
Wed 21 Oct ☀ 07:34–17:48 Neap	02:40 5.5 m 09:43 low	15:48 5.6 m 22:20 low
Thu 22 Oct ☀ 07:35–17:46 Neap	03:54 5.9 m 10:46 low	16:41 6.0 m 23:10 low
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Fri 23 Oct ☀ 07:37–17:44 Mid	04:41 6.3 m 11:28 low	17:17 6.5 m 23:50 low
Sat 24 Oct ☀ 07:39–17:42 Spring	05:24 6.8 m	17:56 6.9 m 12:09 low
Sun 25 Oct ☀ 06:41–16:40 Spring	05:06 7.1 m 11:49 low 00:30 low	17:34 7.2 m
Mon 26 Oct ☀ 06:43–16:38 Spring	05:45 7.3 m 00:08 low	18:11 7.3 m 12:27 low
Tue 27 Oct ☀ 06:45–16:35 Spring	06:25 7.5 m 00:47 low	18:49 7.4 m 13:06 low

Two high waters most days, roughly twelve hours apart. Each high water is accurate to ±40 min. Low water is worked out from the high waters either side of it, so it is a wider estimate — ±70 min — and is shown smaller for that reason. “Spring” tides run higher and faster than “neap”.

Heights are the size of the tide, not the depth of the water here. They are metres above chart datum at Immingham, our reference port — we carry a timing offset to Holkham Beach but no height ratio, so a big number does not mean a deep creek.

Can you walk on the beach at high tide at Holkham Beach? Here is when the sand is open, in the words of the people who publish the advice.

Holkham beach on a big ebb tide: ripples of wet sand running to the horizon with a shallow sheet of water lying across them and a distant sandbank under a wide sky. — Holkham on a large ebb. There is no companion picture at high water because there is nothing to photograph — the sand in this frame is under the sea. Photographs of Holkham Beach: Holkham Beach during a large ebb tide by Evelyn Simak · CC BY-SA 2.0

What the tide controls here

At Holkham, the tide controls how far out the sands go, how long the walk to the water is, and when the channels behind the beach start to fill.

The walk out: Around a 30 minute walk from the beach entrance to the shoreline, depending on the tides. Holkham Estate →
Horse riding: Riding is below the high tide mark, and the Estate ask you to check tide times, avoid the beach at high tide, and be aware of areas that may be cut off. Holkham Estate →
Flood warnings: The Environment Agency issues tidal flood warnings for this stretch of coast. Check live warnings →

Wind, and what it does to these times

ECMWF IFS 0.25° · issued Tue 13:00

At high water

Wind: Force 4 SW12 kn, gusting 20
Rain: Dry0.06 mm this window
Sea: 0.7 m6s period
Temp: 10°C5% cloud

Expect the water to be close to the prediction. The wind is pushing water back out, so this may run to the later part of the window.

Pressure is 1000.4 hPa — on its own worth roughly 13 cm of extra height.

Humidity 92%.

Fog risk: possible.

At low water

Wind: Force 4 SSE11 kn, gusting 18
Rain: Dry0.00 mm this window
Sea: 0.5 m6s period
Temp: 12°C88% cloud

Expect the water to be close to the prediction. The wind is pushing water back out, so this may run to the later part of the window.

Pressure is 998.6 hPa — on its own worth roughly 15 cm of extra height.

Humidity 84%.

This does not move the times above. We publish a window rather than a single minute precisely because weather moves real water, and we have never measured how far it moves it here. Which half of the window to lean toward is a judgement, not a calculation. How we work these out

SW force 412 kn at high water · full forecast

Forecast wind, rain and sea for holkham over the next three days.
Time	Direction	Force	Knots	Rain	Sea
13:00Tue	ESE	5	16	—	1.1 m
16:00Tue	ESE	4	14	Drizzle	1.1 m
19:00Tue	ESE	3	10	Raining	1.0 m
22:00Tue	S	2	7	Drizzle	0.8 m
01:00Wed	SW	3	11	Dry	0.7 m
04:00Wed	SW	4	12	Dry	0.7 m
07:00Wed	SSE	3	9	Dry	0.6 m
10:00Wed	SSE	4	11	Dry	0.5 m
13:00Wed	SE	3	8	Drizzle	0.5 m
16:00Wed	SW	5	16	Drizzle	0.6 m
19:00Wed	SW	5	19	Dry	0.8 m
22:00Wed	W	6	25	Drizzle	1.2 m
01:00Thu	WSW	5	20	Drizzle	1.0 m
04:00Thu	SW	4	15	Dry	0.7 m
07:00Thu	SW	3	9	Dry	0.4 m
10:00Thu	WSW	3	9	Dry	0.4 m
13:00Thu	WSW	4	11	Dry	0.4 m
19:00Thu	S	2	6	Dry	0.4 m
01:00Fri	ESE	4	13	Drizzle	0.4 m
07:00Fri	SE	5	19	Raining	0.7 m
13:00Fri	ESE	4	13	Drizzle	0.6 m

Outlook: days 4–7coarser sample, less certain

Forecast wind, rain and sea for holkham, days four to seven (outlook).
Time	Direction	Force	Knots	Rain	Sea
19:00Fri	WNW	7	28	Raining	0.7 m
01:00Sat	WNW	6	24	Dry	1.5 m
07:00Sat	W	5	18	Dry	1.2 m
13:00Sat	SW	4	14	Dry	0.8 m
19:00Sat	S	5	20	Raining	0.8 m
01:00Sun	WSW	5	20	Drizzle	0.7 m
06:00Sun	WSW	5	21	Dry	0.9 m
12:00Sun	W	6	23	Dry	1.1 m
18:00Sun	W	5	20	Dry	1.0 m
00:00Mon	WSW	4	15	Dry	0.8 m
06:00Mon	SW	4	11	Dry	0.6 m
12:00Mon	SSE	4	12	Dry	0.5 m
18:00Mon	SSW	5	20	Drizzle	0.7 m
00:00Tue	SSW	6	24	Dry	0.9 m
06:00Tue	WSW	6	22	Drizzle	1.0 m
12:00Tue	WSW	5	17	Dry	0.8 m

Rows past the first three days are an outlook, not a forecast — the model publishes them at half the resolution and they are far more likely to change before the day arrives.

⚠️ A 0.25° grid is roughly one cell for this coast. These are the conditions over the area, not the wind in a particular creek. A forecast is not an observation, and this one is a snapshot taken when the page was built — check a live marine forecast before going afloat. Contains modified Copernicus/ECMWF forecast data.

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Dangers here

Specific to this location. The sea is dangerous everywhere on this coast — this is what the tide does here.

Holkham sands: read this before you walk out

People get cut off here. The sands are flat and vast, the flood tide moves faster than it looks, and the channels behind you fill before the beach does — so the water can be between you and the shore while you are still standing on dry sand.

Holkham Estate advise being off any sandbank four hours before high tide. Follow their advice, not the bare number in this table.

Our timing for this beach is inferred, not measured. There is no official tidal station at Holkham, so these times are derived from the nearest open-coast reference and carry a wider window than our other locations. Treat them as a rough guide only.

These are predictions, never observations. Wind, surge and pressure move real tides. Do not use this page for navigation or any decision where being wrong could put someone in danger.

Holkham Estate beach safety guidance →

How this time is worked out

Every time on this page is high water at Immingham, shifted by 17 minutes for Holkham Beach, and published as a ±40 minute window.

Worked out from nearby coast. Not checked against a tide gauge directly — there is no gauge here. Derived from Wells, the only location on this coast we can check directly: this timing shares Wells’ gauge-measured, tide-size-dependent correction rather than having its own, which is why the window here is wider.

How we work out every time on this site

This is a prediction of the astronomical tide. It cannot know what the weather is doing, and wind, pressure and surge all move real water. It is one input to a decision you make — never the decision itself.

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Things to do at Holkham Beach

The Victoria Inn
AA-rosette hotel and restaurant at the gateway to Holkham Hall and beach, using estate-grown produce.
Holkham Hall estate
Stately home and 25,000-acre park with cycle hire, ropes course, Walled Garden and boating lake.

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Generated 21 October 2026 · TICON-4 harmonic constants via @neaps/tide-database (CC-BY-4.0, Hart-Davis et al., 2025)

What the tide allows here

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Beach walking
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07:34–11:43

Wed 21 Oct

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