Tide Clocks are specially designed clocks that records motion of the Moon around the Earth and in turn detect the condition of tidal waves of a specific ocean. It is considered to be one of the major weather instruments used for detecting tide conditions. The cycle of rising and falling of ocean surface is known as tides. This cycle is caused by the tidal forces created by the Moon and the Sun. 67% of this tide is caused by the Moon. Huge tidal waves can result into disasters destroying everything located on the coast of the specific ocean. Tide Clocks acts as an alarm and provide enough time to take precautionary measures.

The Tide Clock provides an average rate between high lunar tides. This high lunar tide occurs in an interval of 12hrs 24 min. The top of the Tide Clock’s dial is marked as “high tide” and the bottom indicates “low tide”. A count-down of hours (from 5 to 1) is marked on the left side of the dial along with the word “flow” or “rising” or “flood”.

On the right side of the Tide Clock dial the count-down hours are marked from 1 to 5 with the word “ebb” or falling. There is a hand fixed on the face of the Tide Clock that indicates the condition and force of the lunar tide.

Tide conditions are different at each location. The Tide Clock time of a particular location is adjusted according to the local lunar high tide occurrence. The lunar and solar tides are not constant and vary during the course of the lunar month. This creates a lot of complications and often accurate results cannot be achieved.