Stuart Tide Schedule: Friday, May 1, 2026

TODAY: Stuart's tide cycle on Friday delivers four well-separated turns, giving anglers, paddlers, and beachgoers clean transition windows throughout the day.

LOW (2:35 a.m. — 0.2 ft): The overnight low is shallow and quiet, with water pulling back to just above baseline. Little practical impact for most users.

HIGH (8:26 a.m. — 2.6 ft): Morning high tide arrives before the workday fully starts — a solid window for kayakers launching off Shepard Park or captains running through the St. Lucie Inlet before the sea breeze fills in.

LOW (2:34 p.m. — -0.1 ft): The standout turn of the day. An afternoon low that dips a tenth of a foot below mean lower low water exposes oyster bars and seagrass flats along the Indian River and St. Lucie estuaries — ideal for wade fishing snook staging near structure. This minus tide is more pronounced than the typical May afternoon low, which historically hovers near 0.1 to 0.2 feet at this station, NOAA CO-OPS data shows.

HIGH (9:02 p.m. — 3.1 ft): The evening's flood peaks at 3.1 feet — the strongest tide of the day and a full half-foot higher than the morning high. Expect brisk current through the inlet and river channels as water pushes in; tarpon anglers working the bridges after sunset will find active water through 10 p.m.

ON THE WATER: The minus afternoon low makes the one to three p.m. window the day's best for sight-fishing shallow flats. Tides at the Jupiter Inlet station run roughly 20 minutes earlier than Stuart due to the distance from the inlet mouth, so anglers moving between zones should adjust their timing accordingly.

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