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Every tide of 2027, on your wall

Pick any beach, harbour or town on the map. We draw its tides for every day of the year, as a wave or a dial, and print it for you.

Find your place
  • See it before you pay
  • Any coast in the world
  • Printed to order, from $49
  • Misprinted? We replace it

Two designs, five textures, six colours

Every poster is drawn for your place. Start with how the year is drawn, then its texture, then a colour. Tap a colour to see every poster in it, and tap any poster to start with it.

Three framed tide posters hung side by side on a pale wall: a Tide Swell in storm slate, a Year Dial in deep teal in the middle, and a banded Year Dial in midnight sea

The wave

Tide Swell

One smooth wave a month, with the time and height of each day's big high and low printed right on it. The one to choose if you want to look up a day.

Design your Tide Swell

The circle

Year Dial

The whole year as a single circle, a spoke for every day. It's the one to choose for a striking piece: the rhythm of the tides shows at a glance, and any date can be followed inward to its times.

Design your Year Dial

From $49. 18 × 24 in or 24 × 32 in, printed to order.

Tide Swell: find any day and read its tides

Each month is one wave. Find the day, and the time and height of high tide are printed above the peak, with the low beneath the dip. Times are local to your place, daylight saving included.

A close-up of a Tide Swell poster: a wave for each month, with the time and height of the day's big high tide above each peak and of the low beneath each dip

Year Dial: follow a date to its tides

Dates run clockwise round the rim, with the month names outside. The hours run outward from the centre, with a scale up the top spoke. Find a date, follow it inward, and read the time of the tide from the rings. Colour shows how high the water is.

A close-up of a Year Dial poster: dates run round the rim with month names, and a scale of hours from 00 to 24 runs up the top spoke, over bands of colour that show how high the water is

The same year looks different on every coast

Tides depend on the shape of the shore and the sea beyond it, so no two places draw the same. These are three real ones, drawn as Year Dials.

  • Eastport, Maine posterEastport, MaineOne of the biggest tide ranges in the US. From the lowest water of the year to the highest it's more than 7 m, about 24 ft.
  • Santa Monica, California posterSanta Monica, CaliforniaTwo highs and two lows a day, and they're rarely the same height.
  • Pensacola, Florida posterPensacola, FloridaMostly one high and one low a day, and a small one: under a metre between the lowest and highest water all year.

How it works

  1. Find your placeSearch for a beach or town, or tap the map. The poster is headed with its name.
  2. Choose how it looksPick a design and its texture, then a colour and a size. The poster updates as you go.
  3. Check it and payWhat you see is what gets printed. We print it after you order and post it to you.

Buying it for someone else?

Choose somewhere that's theirs: the beach they grew up on, the harbour where they got married, the cove they sail from. Change the heading to a name or a date, and pick the design that suits their wall: the wave to read or the dial to admire.

Questions people ask

Can I see the poster before I pay?

Yes. The preview in the designer is the poster as it will be printed, with your place and heading on it. You can zoom right in to read the small print. You only pay when you press Checkout.

Which design should I pick?

Pick Tide Swell if you want to look up tides: each month is one smooth wave, with the time and height of the day's big high and low printed on it. Pick Year Dial if you want a striking piece: the whole year is one circle, and the pattern of the tides shows at a glance. Both are drawn for your exact place, so you can't go wrong.

Can I read the time of high tide for a particular day?

Yes, on both designs. On Tide Swell, find the date and the time and height of each big high and low are printed on the wave, exactly at its peak or dip. Smaller tides are left out, so on some days you'll see just one or neither. On Year Dial, find the date on the rim and follow it inward to read the time to about the hour, with colour for how high the water is.

What are the textures?

A texture is how a design is drawn. Tide Swell comes Unbanded, as a plain wave, or Banded, with the wave in a soft tinted band that widens at the biggest tides. Year Dial comes Cutout, as layers of cut paper where each height of water is a sheet on the one below; Banded, in clear bands of colour that each cover a stated range of height; or Smooth, where the colour blends continuously from low water to high. The times and heights are the same in every texture.

How long until it arrives?

It's printed after you order, which takes 2 to 4 business days, and then it's posted. Delivery takes 3 to 8 business days in the US, a little longer elsewhere.

What if it arrives damaged or wrong?

Email us within 30 days with a photo and we'll send a new one or refund you. You don't have to send the old one back. We can't take returns if you just change your mind, because each poster is made for one place.

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A gift that's about somewhere real

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You'll see the finished poster before you pay. From $49.