Tuesday, September 26, 2006

WXTide32 - a free Windows tide and current prediction program.


  • Predicts tides from 1970 through 2037.
  • More than 9,500 stations worldwide (list) with 160 in England, Ireland and Scotland.
  • More than 300 tidal current stations, all in North America.
  • User station manager to easily add custom tide and current subordinate stations.
  • Text outputs: daily tide list, monthly calendar, incremental tide.
  • Graphic modes: tide clock, realtime graph, scrolling graph, overview.
  • Each graphic mode has separate display options and window settings.
  • Supports legacy ASCII text and new binary TCD harmonic constituent files.
  • Supports user-installed World Vector Shoreline (WVS) map files.
  • Can play user-installed ship's bells sound files on the half hour.
  • Designed for interactive use but can also be used from other programs.
  • Generates BMP graphics and text tide CSV spreadsheet files.
  • Worldwide timezones, solar/lunar events, recent stations, realtime tide state icon.
  • Low resource usage typically 4 MB disk, 5 MB RAM active, 1 MB as icon.
  • Tested on Windows 9x, NT4, 2000, ME, XP.
  • Self-contained, nothing else needed.
  • Context sensitive help and all "C" source code included.