The links below provide download access for a new tidal current atlas for the Salish Sea in PDF format. This new atlas follows the same basic structure and function of the 1984  DFO Current Atlas Vol 3.

The updated tidal current maps are generated using Matlab and the tidal model of Foreman et. al. (2004). The first (as of January 2026) Volume (1) covers the same geographic region of the original, including Victoria, the San Juan Islands, the Gulf Islands, and the southern Strait of Georgia. Other volumes will follow.

To use these new tidal current maps, download the Atlas file and the Calendar Lookup Table file for the year of interest. For each hour of the year, the tables indicate which map to refer to for most appropriate tidal current prediction. These maps are not for navigational purposes and provide only an approximation to the tidal current patterns.