Rainbow Beach tide times & tides for fishing.

In Rainbow Beach, QLD, the next high tide is at 12:12 PM (3.13 m) and the next low tide is at 6:03 AM (0.79 m), based on harmonic predictions for Urangan.

Today's tides · Sun, Jul 19

All high and low tides for Rainbow Beach today, in local time (Australia/Brisbane). Heights are metres above chart datum.

7-day tide table

High (H) and low (L) tide times and heights for the next seven days at Rainbow Beach.

How these are predicted

Predicted from Urangan, 69.8 km away (reliability: medium — a moderate distance — local times may differ by 10–30 minutes from the open coast).

These are astronomical tide predictions — the rise and fall driven by the moon and sun, computed by harmonic analysis. They do not include weather effects: a strong onshore wind, low barometric pressure or a storm surge can push the real water level above the predicted high, and offshore winds or high pressure can hold it below the predicted low. For navigation or any safety-critical decision, always check the official tide tables and a live water-level gauge for Rainbow Beach.

Best tides for fishing Rainbow Beach

The tide stage has more influence on the fishing bite than almost any other single factor. Here is what the tide data above means for fishing at Rainbow Beach:

• Run-out (falling tide) — bait gets funnelled off weed beds and sand flats into the nearest drop-offs and channels. This is the prime ambush window for flathead, whiting, bream and snapper. Start fishing the last 2 hours of the run-out.
• Low slack water — current stops, fish often go off the bite. Use this to reposition, tie on new rigs or move to the next spot.
• Run-in (rising tide) — water pushes into shallow bays and estuaries. Bream and whiting follow the water onto the banks. Mulloway and tailor often feed aggressively on the first push of a new tide.
• High slack water — similar pause to the low. On a big spring tide the high slack can be a dead 30 minutes; on a neap tide it barely registers.
• Spring tides (new & full moon) — stronger current, bigger tidal range. Best for bream on the run-out, snapper on deep reef edges. Check the Fishare solunar forecast for the combined tide + moon window.

Fishare's bite forecast combines tide stage with wind, barometric pressure, moon phase and water temperature to give you a single GO / HOLD / WAIT verdict for Rainbow Beach.