Alaska tides
Today's tides for 99 Alaska towns and 601 NOAA tide stations from Utqiaġvik to Amchitka, listed north to south. Tap a town for its tide chart, the week ahead, sunrise, sunset and its story.
North Slope
- Utqiaġvik, AK tidesThe northernmost city in the US, once called Barrow.
- Wainwright, AK tidesA whaling village on the Chukchi coast.
- Nuiqsut, AK tidesA resettled village at the edge of the oil fields.
- Deadhorse, AK tidesThe oil camp at the end of the Dalton Highway.
- Kaktovik, AK tidesThe polar bear village inside the Arctic refuge.
- Point Hope, AK tidesTikiġaq, one of North America's oldest lived-in places.
Northwest Arctic
Bering Strait
Norton Sound
- Koyuk, AK tidesAn Iñupiaq village where the Koyuk River meets Norton Bay.
- Golovin, AK tidesThe old supply port for the Council gold fields.
- Nome, AK tidesGold on the beach, and the end of the Iditarod.
- Shaktoolik, AK tidesA village that has moved twice and faces the sea again.
- Unalakleet, AK tidesThe Iditarod's first stop on Norton Sound.
- St. Michael, AK tidesA Russian redoubt that became the gold rush gateway.
Bering Sea
Yukon–Kuskokwim Delta
- Kotlik, AK tidesA northern Yukon delta village on Kotlik Slough.
- Emmonak, AK tidesOne of the last towns before the Yukon meets the sea.
- Scammon Bay, AK tidesNamed for a whaling captain, famous for a salmon breakfast.
- Hooper Bay, AK tidesA big Yup'ik village on the Bering Sea coast.
- Newtok, AK tidesA village that moved to escape the river.
- Bethel, AK tidesWestern Alaska's biggest town, on the Kuskokwim.
- Toksook Bay, AK tidesWhere the 2020 census began.
- Mekoryuk, AK tidesThe Cup'ig village of Nunivak Island and its musk oxen.
- Eek, AK tides"Two eyes," near the mouth of the Kuskokwim.
- Chefornak, AK tidesA dancing village on the Kinia River.
- Kipnuk, AK tidesA Yup'ik village at a bend in the Kugkaktlik River.
- Quinhagak, AK tidesHome of the richest pre-contact Yup'ik dig ever found.
- Goodnews Bay, AK tidesA Yup'ik village near America's old platinum mine.
Cook Inlet
Prince William Sound
Kenai Peninsula
Gulf of Alaska
Bristol Bay
- Dillingham, AK tidesHub of the world's biggest wild sockeye runs.
- Naknek, AK tidesBristol Bay Borough's seat, at the mouth of the Naknek River.
- Egegik, AK tidesA cannery village on the Egegik River.
- Pilot Point, AK tidesA sockeye village on Ugashik Bay.
- Port Heiden, AK tidesThe old village of Meshik on the Bristol Bay coast.
Kodiak Archipelago
- Ouzinkie, AK tidesSt. Herman's island village.
- Port Lions, AK tidesA village built after 1964, named for the Lions Club.
- Kodiak, AK tidesRussian Alaska's first capital, now a fishing and Coast Guard town.
- Larsen Bay, AK tidesA small village on Uyak Bay.
- Old Harbor, AK tidesAn Alutiiq village across from Refuge Rock.
- Akhiok, AK tidesKodiak Island's southernmost village.
- Chirikof Island, AK tidesAn island left to 700 feral cattle.
Southeast Alaska
- Skagway, AK tidesThe Klondike's gateway, and Soapy Smith's town.
- Haines, AK tidesThe eagle town at the head of Lynn Canal.
- Gustavus, AK tidesThe homestead town at the door of Glacier Bay.
- Juneau, AK tidesA gold camp turned capital, with no road in.
- Elfin Cove, AK tidesA tiny cove village on Cross Sound.
- Hoonah, AK tidesThe Huna Tlingit village on Icy Strait.
- Pelican, AK tides"Closest to the fish," up Lisianski Inlet.
- Tenakee Springs, AK tidesA quiet Chichagof Island village on Tenakee Inlet.
- Angoon, AK tidesThe only town on Admiralty Island.
- Sitka, AK tidesRussian America's capital, where Alaska changed hands.
- Kake, AK tidesA Tlingit village with one of the world's tallest totems.
- Petersburg, AK tidesLittle Norway, on Wrangell Narrows.
- Wrangell, AK tidesA Russian stockade at the mouth of the Stikine.
- Port Alexander, AK tidesAn old trolling boomtown at the tip of Baranof Island.
- Edna Bay, AK tidesThe only town on Kosciusko Island.
- Hyder, AK tidesThe Alaska town you can only drive to from Canada.
- Kasaan, AK tidesThe northernmost Haida village.
- Craig, AK tidesPrince of Wales Island's biggest town, built on salmon.
- Ketchikan, AK tidesThe Salmon Capital of the World, Alaska's first stop north.
- Hydaburg, AK tidesThree Haida villages joined into one on Cordova Bay.
- Metlakatla, AK tidesThe Tsimshian town on Alaska's only Indian reserve.
Pribilof Islands
Alaska Peninsula
- Katmai Coast, AK tidesBear country under the volcano that buried a valley.
- Chignik, AK tidesA cannery town and birthplace of Alaska's flag designer.
- Nelson Lagoon, AK tidesThe only Aleut village on the Bering Sea shore.
- Perryville, AK tidesFounded by refugees from the 1912 eruption.
- Sand Point, AK tidesA cod station turned Shumagin fishing port.
- Cold Bay, AK tidesA wartime airbase with a runway built for emergencies.
- King Cove, AK tidesA cannery town still fighting for a road to Cold Bay.
Aleutian Islands
- False Pass, AK tidesA cannery town on Isanotski Strait.
- Akutan, AK tidesAn Unangan village beside a giant fish plant.
- Unalaska, AK tidesDutch Harbor: America's biggest fishing port by volume.
- Nikolski, AK tidesThought to be one of the oldest continuously lived-in places on Earth.
- Attu, AK tidesThe only North American battlefield of World War II.
- Shemya, AK tidesA radar island at the far end of the Aleutians.
- Atka, AK tidesAn Unangan village under Korovin Volcano.
- Kiska, AK tidesSeized by Japan in 1942, found empty in 1943.
- Adak, AK tidesThe westernmost city in the US, an old Navy town.
- Amchitka, AK tidesThe island of three underground nuclear tests.