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Cairns (Trinity Inlet) fishing forecast & tide times

Cairns (Trinity Inlet) is a harbour on the Queensland reef coast at 16.920° S, 145.771° E. Wind, sea and tide times below, and the live map one tap away.

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Conditions at Cairns (Trinity Inlet)

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Wind is BLEND‑NQ, ReefNav’s own blend of six global models — ECMWF, ECMWF AIFS, GFS, ICON, GEM and UKMO — bias‑corrected against the nearest weather station’s own last 40 days.

ReefNav's reef chart showing Marine Park zoning off Cairns
Our own reef chartMarine Park zoning, depth contours, spot soundings, IALA navigation marks with their light characters, boat ramps and marinas — searchable, and every layer switchable.
 ReefNav's 3D seabed view of the reef off Cairns
See under the waterThe seabed in 3D, built from real survey bathymetry. Find the drop‑offs, ledges and bommies that hold fish before you leave the ramp.

Tide times near Cairns (Trinity Inlet)

Official high and low tide predictions for Cairns (Trinity Inlet) for the next seven days, taken from the Bureau of Meteorology gauge at Cairns No 7 Wharf, the nearest to this spot. Heights are metres above LOWEST ASTRONOMICAL TIDE.

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Tide predictions © Commonwealth of Australia, Bureau of Meteorology; published by The State of Queensland (Department of Transport and Main Roads).

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Marine Park zoning at Cairns (Trinity Inlet)

Most of this coast sits inside the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, and the zone you are in decides whether you can fish, and how. Green (Marine National Park) zones are no‑take. Yellow (Conservation Park) zones allow limited line fishing. Dark blue (Habitat Protection) zones allow fishing but no trawling or netting. Light blue is General Use.

ReefNav draws all of it on a nautical chart we built ourselves from open GBRMPA and Maritime Safety Queensland data — zoning, depth contours, spot soundings, navigation marks and boat ramps on one chart, rather than cross‑referencing a zoning PDF against a paper chart.

See the zoning around Cairns (Trinity Inlet) on the reef chart →