Boca Raton Inlet: tide and current notes

Boca Raton Inlet is one of the 20 inlets and passes Anglrithm measures runs from, in the Palm Beach region. This page sets out the public facts about its water: the NOAA tide gauges around it and how their tides run, what is known about its current, and the structure outside it.

How the tide runs here

2 NOAA tide gauges sit within 6 nm of the inlet. Highs are timed against Government Cut (8723178), the reference for the Atlantic coast and the Keys.

  • Deerfield Beach CO-OPS 8722832ocean side, 1.5 nm
    Mean range 2.3 ft; highs about 12 minutes after Government Cut.
  • Hillsboro Inlet CO-OPS 8722862ocean side, 4.8 nm
    Mean range 2.5 ft; highs about 23 minutes before Government Cut.

For the water at the mouth Anglrithm reads Deerfield Beach (8722832), 1.5 nm away: a gauge in the same tidal water, never one inside an inlet, on the Intracoastal or up a river, because those run late against the water outside.

From NOAA CO-OPS tide predictions, October 4, 2026 to November 15, 2026: the mean range between successive highs and lows, and the median time from the high at Government Cut to the high at each gauge. A description of this inlet's tide, not a tide table.

Current

NOAA has no current prediction station at this inlet, so the strength and timing of the ebb and flood are not published for it. The tide figures above show when the water outside turns; the inlet itself runs on its own schedule. The Army Corps publishes no channel condition survey for it either, so its controlling depth is not on record here.

Wind against the currentSmall real effect

Wind blowing against the current stands the seas up: shorter, steeper and more likely to break than the same wind over slack water, which decides how a drift sets up and how long a day stays fishable. That is physics about the water, not evidence about the fish; no study we found ties it to catch.

U.S. Coast Pilot 4, Chapter 3 (opposing wind and current on the Gulf Stream: sharply higher, steeper seas that can break; mechanism only). No catch study found.

Within 10 nm

105 of the 2,153 wrecks and reefs in the structure file lie within 10 nm of the inlet, from FWC artificial reef program, Broward County, Palm Beach County ERM and NOAA Office of Coast Survey charts.

  • artificial reefs75
  • wrecks11
  • natural reef and ledge marks17
  • charted obstructions2

Counts only. The positions are on the chart in the app, each with its source and retrieval date; this page lists none.

Spots that run from here

Other inlets in Palm Beach

Display only, not for navigation. Every figure here names its source; check the NWS marine forecast and the posted rules before you leave the dock.