Tide heights and position on the beach

If you know the "height" of the tide how do you determine how far up a beach it will go?

For instance, if the height of the low tide is 0.2 feet, where will the tide on the beach be compared to a height of the high tide at 2.9 feet?

I've tried reading some web pages about tides, but I get lost in the technical jargon and can't seem to figure this out.

The specific beach I have in mind is Hornbaek, on the northern edge of Denmark. I've been told that the tides have little or no effect in some parts of Denmark, so I may have to adjust my locale or my plot a bit. (I need the tide to move a good way up the beach.)

Here are a couple of pics of the beach:



It looks like the tides there range from -0.1m to 0.1m.

Mumut said:

Can you try it out on the actual beach or can you find a similat beach? Pace the distance from low water and high water to a fixed point then do the same at the fraction of the tide or number of hours after high tide or whatever it is that is important for your story.

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I sure wish I could go to Denmark!

And Sarah, I got the numbers I have from a tide table, but I don't know how to translate that to distance on the beach. Are there other kinds of tide tables? I'm clueless.

Waylander, Hornbaek is on the Øresund, the sound that connects the North Sea and the Baltic.

ETA: How about storm surges? Could there be storm surges there? OK, I found a report of a storm in 1938 that flooded parts of Helsingor, so I may just go with storm surge.