Harbor WebCam - Portsmouth, NH

Portsmouth (NH) Harbor – 43.1°N, 70.8°W (beta)

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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 HarborCam is roughly a half hour later. A schedule of shipping in the Piscataqua is not available.
Piscataqua River Currents Sat 12:04am EST -1.38 knots Max Ebb Sat 04:01am EST 0.00 knots Slack, Flood Begins Sat 04:21am EST Moonset Sat 05:54am EST 1.00 knots Max Flood Sat 06:55am EST Sunrise Sat 09:53am EST -0.00 knots Slack, Ebb Begins Sat 12:40pm EST -1.70 knots Max Ebb Sat 01:50pm EST Moonrise Sat 04:49pm EST 0.00 knots Slack, Flood Begins Sat 04:58pm EST Sunset Sat 06:28pm EST 0.79 knots Max Flood Sat 10:23pm EST -0.00 knots Slack, Ebb Begins Sun 12:57am EST -1.49 knots Max Ebb Sun 04:49am EST 0.00 knots Slack, Flood Begins Sun 05:04am EST Moonset Sun 06:46am EST 1.11 knots Max Flood Sun 06:54am EST Sunrise Sun 10:40am EST -0.00 knots Slack, Ebb Begins Sun 01:29pm EST -1.85 knots Max Ebb Sun 02:53pm EST Moonrise Sun 04:59pm EST Sunset Sun 05:33pm EST 0.00 knots Slack, Flood Begins Sun 07:19pm EST 0.96 knots Max Flood Sun 11:11pm EST -0.00 knots Slack, Ebb Begins	Current Conditions 27.9 ^oF partly cloudy Forecast
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 1. Moran Towing tugboats 2. Public benches 3. Ferry Landing restaurant 4. Tug Alley Too tugboat 5. Memorial Bridge 6. Portsmouth Naval Shipyard 7. Badger's Island, Kittery, Maine
What kind of name is Piscataqua (Piss-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.

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