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An upgraded version of the tidal solutions (FES94.1) is presented, obtained by assimilating an altimeter‐derived data set in the finite element hydrodynamic model, following the representer approach. The assimilated data are drawn from the CSR2.0 Texas solutions sampled on a 5° × 5° grid. The assimilation is applied over the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans. The standard release of the new FES95.2 solutions is a 0.5° × 0.5° gridded version of the full finite element solutions. The associated tidal prediction model includes 26 constituents. The eight major constituents are drawn directly from the hydrodynamic model: K₁, O₁, Q₁, M₂, S₂, N₂, K₂, and 2N₂, corrected by assimilation except K₂ and 2N₂. The other 18 constituents are derived by admittance. Among them are μ₂, ν₂, L₂, T₂, M₁, P₁, J₁, and OO₁. The quality of these solutions is evaluated by reference to a standard sea truth data set of 95 stations. This …