Gasparilla Pass: tide and current notes

Gasparilla Pass is one of the 20 inlets and passes Anglrithm measures runs from, in the Southwest Gulf 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 Naples (8725110), the reference for the Gulf coast.

  • Placida CO-OPS 8725667bay or sound, 1.6 nm
    Mean range 0.9 ft; highs about 62 minutes after Naples.
  • Port Boca Grande CO-OPS 8725577Gulf beach or pass, 5.8 nm
    Mean range 1.2 ft; highs about 14 minutes after Naples.

The high at Placida (bay or sound) comes about 48 minutes after the high at Port Boca Grande on the Gulf beach or pass, with a range of 0.9 ft against 1.2 ft outside. The water in the inlet moves between the two.

No gauge in the same tidal water lies within reach of the mouth, so a place here scores the tide as no tide data rather than borrow a gauge from other water.

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 Naples to the high at each gauge. A description of this inlet's tide, not a tide table.

Current

Anglrithm has no NOAA current prediction station on record for this pass, so no page here gives the strength or timing of its flow.

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

7 of the 2,153 wrecks and reefs in the structure file lie within 10 nm of the inlet, from NOAA Office of Coast Survey charts.

  • wrecks2
  • charted obstructions5

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 Southwest Gulf

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.