Port Canaveral Entrance
Cape Canaveral · Atlantic coast
Check Port Canaveral Entrance nowNWS advisories, tides and ebb, sun and moon. Free, no sign-up.Current in the inlet
No NOAA current station here. The app assumes the ebb is possible from 30 minutes before high water until 3 hours after low water, at about 1 kn, setting toward 100° (east) along the inlet axis. It says so on screen: the window is deliberately wide.
Ebb against swell on the bar
Swell and wind from the east meet the ebb head on: waves get shorter and steeper and can break on the bar. The same swell on the flood is usually far easier. The app compares the hour-by-hour current with the forecast waves and wind to rate each hour.
Bar depth used to estimate wave steepening: about 13 m (43 ft). Sandbars move: this is not a chart and never says where to cross.
Local notes
- Deep ship channel; locks limit tidal flow. Cruise ships and launch-related closures.
Hour by hour, 48 hours ahead
The app rates every hour of the next 48 for Port Canaveral Entrance: Lower risk, Caution, Hazardous or Extreme, with waves on the bar, wind, current and the inlet map. Free trial of Pro for 7 days.
Data for this inlet
- NWS marine forecast, zone AMZ552
- NOAA tide predictions: Trident Pier, Port Canaveral
- NDBC buoy 41113 (waves, 6 km away)
- Wind observations: station TRDF1
- Airport weather: KXMR, KCOF