Portsmouth (NH) Harbor – 43.1°N, 70.8°W
Ceres Street, Portsmouth, N.H., looking northeast over the Piscataqua River toward Kittery, Maine.
Latitude: 43.07905408740087
Longitude: -70.75766086578369
River traffic. Piscataqua River currents restrict travel by tankers and other large vessels to slack tide, roughly four hours a day. See chart below for slack tide at the entrance to Portsmouth Harbor. The entrance is nearly three miles from the location of the PortsmouthNH.com's HarborCam. Slack tide at the Harbor Cam is roughly a half hour later. A schedule of shipping in the Piscataqua is not available. | |
|
Piscataqua River Currents Tue 12:33am -1.76 knots Max Ebb Tue 02:45am Moonset Tue 04:33am 0.00 knots Slack, Flood Begins Tue 05:13am Sunrise Tue 06:22am 1.04 knots Max Flood Tue 09:54am -0.00 knots Slack, Ebb Begins Tue 12:52pm -1.82 knots Max Ebb Tue 04:10pm Moonrise Tue 04:43pm 0.00 knots Slack, Flood Begins Tue 06:49pm 1.37 knots Max Flood Tue 08:05pm Sunset Tue 10:36pm -0.00 knots Slack, Ebb Begins Wed 01:26am -1.94 knots Max Ebb Wed 03:18am Moonset Wed 05:12am Sunrise Wed 05:24am 0.00 knots Slack, Flood Begins Wed 07:17am 1.16 knots Max Flood Wed 10:51am -0.00 knots Slack, Ebb Begins Wed 01:44pm -1.92 knots Max Ebb Wed 05:21pm Moonrise Wed 05:30pm 0.00 knots Slack, Flood Begins Wed 07:41pm 1.53 knots Max Flood Wed 08:06pm Sunset Wed 11:25pm -0.00 knots Slack, Ebb Begins |
Local Ads @ PortsmouthNH.com
Garden Trellises
Beautiful cedar garden trellises in two styles or built to order. Click for p mainecarpenter.com |
|
New Hampshire-Maine border. The N.H.-Maine border lies in the middle of the Piscataqua River. Its exact location was the subject of a long-running dispute settled by the U.S. Supreme Court. Piscataqua River. This Piscataqua River is a 13-mile long tidal estuary formed by merging of the Salmon and Cocheco rivers. The river, which separates Maine and New Hampshire, also drains Great Bay, a National Estuarine Research Reserve site. The last 8.8 miles of the Piscataqua River constitute Portsmouth Harbor, which stretches across New Castle, Portsmouth, and Newington, and the Maine communities of Kittery and Eliot. Currents. The swift currents of the Piscataqua River make Portsmouth Harbor one of the fastest flowing commercial port waterways in the northeastern United States. The ice-free deep-water channel has been used for shipping since the 1600s. | |
|
Points of Interest |
|
What kind of name is Piscataqua (pis-cat-a-qua)? Easy for you to say, but not so easy to spell. See an extended examination of the origin of the word at SeacoastNH.com and 20 ways to spell Piscataqua. More information. For more about the Piscataqua River, see the Army Corps of Engineers Water Resources web page. | |
