The indextidedatable to the day

King-tide flooding, Shore Acres & Bayshore

Fires when perigean spring-tide window AND high tide within 1h of sunrise or sunset

Photograph B137 · CC0 1.0

September through November. The notch is October.

No date. datable to the day — this one is decided by the weather, not by the calendar, so the honest answer is a month rather than a day.

Where: Shore Acres, St. Petersburg
Drive: 50 minutes from Lakeland
In season: September through November
Certainty: datable to the day
Drone: yes

How often we have called it on

We have not once called this on, across 6 Sunday builds. That is our own weekly verdict rather than a measurement of the trigger, and a condition that fires midweek can pass between two builds.

From the field

2026 tide times pre-computed from NOAA tables. Dawn highs beat evening for empty mirror streets.

Also open in October

Negative low tides — Gulf sandbar fields
Pre/post-tropical drama — Gulf skies and surf
Sea-turtle hatchling season
Winter shorebirds & white pelicans
Bald eagle nesting season

Everything in October →

More tide

Negative low tides — Gulf sandbar fields
Peak spring clarity — Rainbow, Silver, Weeki Wachee
Spring clarity window
Spring clarity window

Everything within two hours · the whole year