NOAA

CO-OPS Tides and Currents API

The NOAA Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS) Data Retrieval API provides access to water levels, tide predictions, currents, and meteorological observations from hundreds of monitoring stations around US coasts and inland waterways. Additional metadata and derived product APIs complement the primary data retrieval service. The API is free and requires no authentication.

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Documentation

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Documentation
https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/api/

Other Resources

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MetadataAPI
https://api.tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/mdapi/prod/

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
name: CO-OPS Tides and Currents API
description: The NOAA Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS) Data Retrieval
  API provides access to water levels, tide predictions, currents, and meteorological observations from
  hundreds of monitoring stations around US coasts and inland waterways. Additional metadata and derived
  product APIs complement the primary data retrieval service. The API is free and requires no authentication.
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
humanURL: https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/api/
baseURL: https://api.tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/api/prod
tags:
- Tides
- Currents
- Water Levels
- Ocean
- Coastal
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/api/
- type: MetadataAPI
  url: https://api.tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/mdapi/prod/