Pino Tides Align with Virgin’s Day This Year

This Monday, September 8, we will have a tide coefficient of 107, the highest of the summer.

The Pino tides are part of the collective imagination of the archipelago as a marker of the end of summer, and they usually arrive together with the feast of the patron saint of Gran Canaria and many coastal towns of the islands.

These “pleamares” or spring tides occur mainly in September and early October and result from the strongest gravitational pull of the Moon and the Sun when they align, producing the phenomenon.

Along with the March tides that signal the end of winter, they are the highest tides of the year, both known as equinoctial tides.

This year, the upcoming Monday, September 8, the day of the Virgin of the Pine, coincides with the highest tide of the cycle. Starting on the 7th, the tide will already be very high, with a coefficient of 101; on the 8th, during the full Moon, it will reach a coefficient of 107; and on Tuesday the 9th it will be 106.

The peak will occur at 02:34 a.m. and again at 14:47 p.m. on Monday, while the lowest tides will be at 08:32 a.m. and 20:57 p.m..