This paper adopts wavelet transform to study the phenomena of tidal elevation and storm surge based on the observed tidal data. The characteristics of space and frequency distributions of these two phenomena can be revealed by the wavelet energy. The wavelet energy of the tidal distribution in the time evolution is able to determine the maximum difference of tide occurring time for the observation location. Due to the energy parts less than 0.5 day^(-1) are very small magnitude from the low frequency, it is demonstrated that the variations of water elevation induced by the meteorological factor can be neglected from the harmonic analysis. If the wavelet energy frequency is less than 1 day^(-1), the distributions of storm surge graph are similar to that of energy curve. Therefore, according to the wavelet energy distribution of surge, it can acquire accurately the time of the occurrence of max surge. Meanwhile, it can reckon the influence time of storm surge on shore from the variety of the wavelet energy.