Fort Pierce Tide Schedule: May 27, 2026

TODAY: A textbook late-May tide cycle rolls through Fort Pierce on Wednesday, with four distinct turns giving boaters, anglers, and beachgoers a well-defined day to plan around.

TONIGHT: The day opens quietly. A minimal low of 0.3 feet hits at 12:08 a.m., leaving the inlet calm and shallow through the early overnight.

THIS WEEK: Wednesday's cycle offers notable range. The morning high at 6:06 a.m. reaches 2.3 feet — a moderate push that fills the channels and floats shallow-draft boats off their moorings. The day's most useful moment arrives at the midday low: 12:16 p.m. drops to minus 0.1 feet, a negative tide that exposes oyster bars and tidal flats along the Indian River Lagoon's western shorelines. The evening closes strong, with a 2.8-foot high at 6:50 p.m. — the biggest push of the day and a half-foot jump from the morning.

ON THE WATER: That 0.4-foot spread between the morning and evening highs tells the real story for fishermen. As water drains hard off the flats toward the minus 0.1-foot low around noon, baitfish stack in the deeper cuts near the Fort Pierce Inlet, pulling snook and redfish in behind them. Work a live pilchard on a jig head along the channel edges between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. for the best action. By late afternoon, the flood tide building toward the 6:50 p.m. high pushes fish back onto the grass flats — poling the shallows west of the inlet from 4 p.m. to sunset is worth the effort.

ALERTS: No active National Weather Service watches, warnings, or advisories are in effect for St. Lucie County, NOAA data shows. The NOAA Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS) Fort Pierce station issues tide predictions.

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