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Best time to fish in Nagbalaye

Today, Thursday, October 29, 2026 · local time (GMT+8) · Central Visayas, Philippines Today, Thu, Oct 29 · GMT+8
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Today's rating Good day 7 out of 10
Best time today 2:50–3:30 pm Also 6:00–8:00 am
High tides
1:16 pm and 11:40 pm
Major periods
12:52–2:52 am and 1:24–3:24 pm
Solunar activity
Medium
Sun
5:38 am–5:27 pm

Today, Thursday, October 29, the best time to fish in Nagbalaye is 2:50 pm to 3:30 pm, with the 3:54 pm low tide and a major period. It's a good day (7/10). Today is the best day this week.

Your day in Nagbalaye at a glance

The strip runs from midnight to midnight, local time. Night in gray, daylight in yellow; the blue curve is the tide; below, the solunar periods and the best windows.

Fishing forecast for the next 7 days

DayRatingBest timesHigh tidesMoon
Today 7good day
2:50–3:30 pm6:00–8:00 am
▲ 1:16 pm
▲ 11:40 pm
Waning gibbous
Fri 30 3fair day
7:00–9:00 am12:00–12:40 am
— Waning gibbous
Sat 31 4fair day
3:30–5:30 pm8:10–10:10 am
▲ 12:22 am Waning gibbous
Sun 1 5average day
5:20–6:00 am5:00–5:50 pm
▲ 1:10 am Waning gibbous
Mon 2 4fair day
5:20–6:10 am11:50 am–12:50 pm
▲ 2:11 am Last quarter
Tue 3 4fair day
12:40–1:40 pm5:50–7:50 am
▲ 3:41 am Waning crescent
Wed 4 4fair day
1:20–2:20 pm7:30–9:00 pm
▲ 5:40 am
▲ 8:34 pm
Waning crescent

Each day's rating comes from the tide, the solunar periods, the light and, when we have the forecast, the weather.

What can you catch in Nagbalaye?

Sport fishing species with the most records within about 62 mi of Nagbalaye: great barracuda, rainbow runner, mangrove red snapper, striped mullet and narrow-barred Spanish mackerel.

  1. Picture of great barracuda
    Great barracuda Sphyraena barracuda · fish · 17 records Photo: Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
  2. Picture of rainbow runner
    Rainbow runner Elagatis bipinnulata · fish · 14 records Photo: Shannon Rankin, NOAA · public domain · Wikimedia Commons
  3. Picture of mangrove red snapper
    Mangrove red snapper Lutjanus argentimaculatus · fish · 9 records Photo: Jean-Lou Justine · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
  4. Picture of striped mullet
    Striped mullet Mugil cephalus · fish · 8 records Photo: Roberto Pillon · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
  5. Picture of narrow-barred Spanish mackerel
    Narrow-barred Spanish mackerel Scomberomorus commerson · fish · 5 records Photo: Wikimedia Commons · public domain
  6. Picture of cobia
    Cobia Rachycentron canadum · fish · 4 records Photo: Wikimedia Commons · public domain
  7. Picture of kawakawa
    Kawakawa Euthynnus affinis · fish · 4 records Photo: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration · public domain · Wikimedia Commons
  8. Picture of almaco jack
    Almaco jack Seriola rivoliana · fish · 4 records Photo: Kare · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

There are too few sightings here to tell in which months each species is seen most.

These are sightings and catches recorded since 1970 (reports from divers and anglers, scientific surveys and museum collections), not a promise that you will catch them. The months come from sightings only, adjusted for how many there are each month; hatched months have too few to tell.

Source: GBIF.org, which also gathers OBIS data. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY 4.0, from 1,130 datasets (retrieved October 24, 2026). Where the data comes from

Photos: each species' image on Wikidata (Wikimedia Commons) or, if there isn't one, one from GBIF; only licences that allow this use, each with its author and licence.

How we work out the best time

We score every moment of the day, every 10 minutes, with simple rules anglers have used for decades:

  • Tide: 2 to 3.5 points in the hour before and the hour after each high and low tide. Spring tides (high coefficient) score more, because the water moves faster.
  • Solunar: 2.5 points in the major periods (moon overhead or underfoot) and 1.5 in the minor ones (moonrise and moonset).
  • Light: 2 points at dawn and dusk, from first light to the end of the morning golden hour and from the evening golden hour to the end of twilight.
  • Weather: falling pressure adds 1 point and rising pressure takes 1 away; wind takes points away from force 4 (about 12 mph), up to 5 points in a gale; waves of 1.6 ft to 4.9 ft add half a point (they stir up the water) and from 8.2 ft they take points away (up to 4).
  • Best windows: the stretches of 40 minutes to 3 hours with the most points, at least an hour apart.
  • Day's rating out of 10: the best window (up to 5), the moon (up to 2, near new or full moon), the tide coefficient (up to 2) and whether a solunar period lines up with sunrise or sunset (1). Without a tide, we score out of 8 and scale it to 10. Good weather adds up to 1 point and bad weather pulls it down.

Today: best window 3.7 of 5, moon 1 of 2, coefficient 2 of 2 and lineup 0 of 1.

It's a guide, not a guarantee: fish don't read tide tables. Always check the sea conditions and local fishing rules before you go.

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Questions about fishing in Nagbalaye

What's the best time to fish in Nagbalaye today?

2:50 pm to 3:30 pm, with the 3:54 pm low tide and a major period. Also 6:00 am to 8:00 am. Today's rating: 7/10 (good day).

What about tomorrow? When's the best time to fish in Nagbalaye?

Tomorrow, Friday, October 30: 7:00 am to 9:00 am, with a rating of 3/10.

Which day this week is best for fishing in Nagbalaye?

Thursday, October 29, at 7/10. Its best window is 2:50 pm to 3:30 pm.

What can you catch in Nagbalaye?

Sport fishing species with the most records within about 62 mi of Nagbalaye: great barracuda, rainbow runner, mangrove red snapper, striped mullet and narrow-barred Spanish mackerel. These are sightings and catches recorded in GBIF and OBIS, not a promise that you will catch them.

When are the solunar periods in Nagbalaye today?

Major: 12:52–2:52 am and 1:24–3:24 pm. Minor: 7:57–8:57 am and 7:50–8:50 pm. Solunar activity today: medium.

Does the tide affect fishing in Nagbalaye?

Yes. Today high tide is at 1:16 pm and 11:40 pm and low tide at 6:58 am and 3:54 pm, with a tide coefficient of 92 (spring tides). The hours around each tide change tend to fish best, because moving water carries food.

How is the rating worked out?

From the tide, the solunar periods, the light at dawn and dusk, the moon phase and, when we have the forecast, the pressure, the wind and the waves. Each factor gives a fixed number of points and the rating sums them up out of 10.

Does it take the weather into account?

Yes. During today's best window: steady pressure (29.91 inHg), almost no wind and calm sea (0.4 ft waves). Strong wind and big waves lower the rating; falling pressure raises it a little.

More about Nagbalaye today

Our own calculation: tide from FES2022 (AVISO/CNES), sun and moon with astronomy-engine and, when available, weather and sea from Open-Meteo (ECMWF, NOAA GFS and Copernicus Marine, CC BY 4.0). FES2022 Tide was produced by LEGOS, NOVELTIS and CLS, funded by CNES, and distributed by AVISO (https://doi.org/10.24400/527896/a01-2024.004), AVISO licence (https://www.aviso.altimetry.fr/fileadmin/documents/data/License_Aviso.pdf). Modified by TidePlanet: constants interpolated from the nearest model cells offshore; heights above mean sea level.

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