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Sayung is one of sub-district of Demak Regency which located in the nortside of coastal area. For the last few decades, the coastal area has become a tidal flood cause of climate change, and human activities that has had impact on social, economic and environmental aspects. The various adaptation efforts had been done to confronting the tidal flood phenomena. The purpose of study to identify the effectivity of adaptations strategy which related to the tidal flood phenomena. The requiry data includes the adaptations activities, the financial adaptationss activities, the socio-cultural adaptations activities that have obtained more than 100 household samples. Those samples have distribued in the four villages namely as Sriwulan, Bedono, Timbulsloko and Surodadi villages in the northside of Sayung sub-distric coastal area. The data are obtained by scoring method through the quitionnaires. This study can be provided as the effectivity level description of the completed adaptation efforts to decreasing the tidal flood risks or impacts. So that, the efforts results were landfill, floor elevations, household-furniture raising, highly effective. But, Sriwulan local people argued that the household-furniture raising was ineffectively being the solution, if it can not be balanced with the others adaptations for solving the tidal flood phenomena.