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The working quay and harbour channel. Keelboats need water under them, so the high-water window is everything.

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

Force 4 SW · 12 kn

The next high tide at Wells-next-the-Sea is 02:56 BST ±30 min on Wed 21 Oct.

Wells-next-the-Sea tide table: next 7 days, high and low tide

times in BST · high ±30 · low ±60
High and low tide times for Wells-next-the-Sea over the next seven days, split into early and late, in local time. High waters are accurate to ±30 minutes and low waters to ±60 minutes. Heights are metres above chart datum at the Immingham reference, not the depth of water here.
Day Early Late
Wed 21 Oct ☀ 07:33–17:48 Neap 02:56 5.5 m 09:59 low 16:04 5.6 m 22:36 low
Thu 22 Oct ☀ 07:35–17:46 Neap 04:10 5.9 m 11:02 low 16:57 6.0 m 23:26 low

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Fri 23 Oct ☀ 07:37–17:44 Mid 04:57 6.3 m 11:44 low 17:33 6.5 m
Sat 24 Oct ☀ 07:39–17:42 Spring 05:40 6.8 m 00:06 low 18:12 6.9 m 12:25 low
Sun 25 Oct ☀ 06:41–16:39 Spring 05:22 7.1 m 00:46 low 17:50 7.2 m 12:05 low
Mon 26 Oct ☀ 06:43–16:37 Spring 06:01 7.3 m 00:24 low 18:27 7.3 m 12:43 low
Tue 27 Oct ☀ 06:44–16:35 Spring 06:41 7.5 m 01:03 low 19:05 7.4 m 13:22 low

Two high waters most days, roughly twelve hours apart. Each high water is accurate to ±30 min. Low water is worked out from the high waters either side of it, so it is a wider estimate — ±60 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 Wells-next-the-Sea but no height ratio, so a big number does not mean a deep creek.

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

Wells harbour channel at dusk brimming with water, gulls over the surface, the quay and the tall granary with its gantry standing in silhouette against a pale sky.

High tide

The same channel on an overcast day with the water withdrawn to a central strip, fishing boats tied along the quay wall sitting low, and moored craft beyond resting on exposed banks of mud.

Low tide

The same view down the harbour channel at Wells, full and empty. Keelboats and trip boats move on the first. Photographs of Wells-next-the-Sea: Wells-next-the-Sea harbour at full tide by Trevor Wright · Harbour, Wells-Next-the-Sea by Ian Lavender · CC BY-SA 2.0

What the tide controls here

At Wells, the tide controls when boats can cross the bar, when the beach channels fill, and when swimming at the quay is allowed.

Harbour access
Entry depends on draft. Most vessel movements run two hours before high water to two hours after. Port of Wells →
Swimming
Swimming is not permitted in the quayside area 2.5 hours either side of high tide. Harbour Master’s Directions →
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 higher than the prediction alone.

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 wells-next-the-sea over the next three days.
TimeDirectionForceKnotsRainSea
13:00TueESE516—1.1 m
16:00TueESE414Drizzle1.1 m
19:00TueESE310Raining1.0 m
22:00TueS27Drizzle0.8 m
01:00WedSW311Dry0.7 m
04:00WedSW412Dry0.7 m
07:00WedSSE39Dry0.6 m
10:00WedSSE411Dry0.5 m
13:00WedSE38Drizzle0.5 m
16:00WedSW516Drizzle0.6 m
19:00WedSW519Dry0.8 m
22:00WedW625Drizzle1.2 m
01:00ThuWSW520Drizzle1.0 m
04:00ThuSW415Dry0.7 m
07:00ThuSW39Dry0.4 m
10:00ThuWSW39Dry0.4 m
13:00ThuWSW411Dry0.4 m
19:00ThuS26Dry0.4 m
01:00FriESE413Drizzle0.4 m
07:00FriSE519Raining0.7 m
13:00FriESE413Drizzle0.6 m
Outlook: days 4–7coarser sample, less certain
Forecast wind, rain and sea for wells-next-the-sea, days four to seven (outlook).
TimeDirectionForceKnotsRainSea
19:00FriWNW728Raining0.7 m
01:00SatWNW624Dry1.5 m
07:00SatW518Dry1.2 m
13:00SatSW414Dry0.8 m
19:00SatS520Raining0.8 m
01:00SunWSW520Drizzle0.7 m
06:00SunWSW521Dry0.9 m
12:00SunW623Dry1.1 m
18:00SunW520Dry1.0 m
00:00MonWSW415Dry0.8 m
06:00MonSW411Dry0.6 m
12:00MonSSE412Dry0.5 m
18:00MonSSW520Drizzle0.7 m
00:00TueSSW624Dry0.9 m
06:00TueWSW622Drizzle1.0 m
12:00TueWSW517Dry0.8 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.

The channels on Wells beach fill from four hours before high water

The RNLI warn that the natural channels or “drains” on Wells Beach can be up to two metres deep with uneven ground at the bottom. From about four hours before high tide at Wells Bar they begin to fill rapidly, forming isolated islands.

The water is cold and fast-flowing, and wading it risks cold-water shock, hypothermia and drowning. Be back on dry sand or dry land four hours before high tide. In summer a siren sounds to mark that point.

RNLI Wells Lifeboat Station →

How this time is worked out

Every time on this page is high water at Immingham, shifted by 33 minutes for Wells-next-the-Sea, and published as a ±30 minute window.

Checked against a tide gauge. The only location we can check directly, and the only one we have calibrated. There is an Environment Agency tide gauge here, so we compared 39 measured high waters against our predictions and corrected this timing by 19 minutes in July 2026, banded by tide size. Our other locations have no gauge and have not been calibrated this way — their timings are derived from this one.

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 Wells-next-the-Sea

  • The Globe Inn

    Relaxed coastal pub on Wells' Georgian square, serving hearty pub food and fresh fish and chips, with rooms above.

  • The Crown Hotel

    Refurbished former coaching inn on the Buttlands green, with 20 rooms and a seasonal, locally sourced menu.

  • French's Fish and Chips

    Family-run fish and chip shop on Wells Quay since 1921, four generations in, with harbour-wall seating.

  • BJR Marine / Off The Hook

    Sea fishing charter trips departing Wells harbour for cod, skate and tope.

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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

All activities
  • Sailing

    Next window here

    13:04–17:48

    Wed 21 Oct

  • Beach walking

    Next window here

    07:33–11:59

    Wed 21 Oct

Windows are published by the clubs, harbours and operators named on each activity page — not by us. Always use your own judgement, and ask whoever you are hiring from.