River, lake and reservoir levels today, against normal for the date
Is your river or lake lower than usual?
We follow 9,551 water level places in 8 countries. 1,022 places read below their normal range for the date and 312 places above it.
Know the level. Understand the change.
Find the river you walk past, the lake you love or the reservoir you follow. Each place page sets the newest reading beside the normal range for the date and links the place's own history, where we hold enough years of readings.
A number alone says little. Here every reading comes with its time, its unit and its source.
Where the water stands today
1,022 places below normal and 312 places above
Places below and above normal by country
| Country | Places | Below normal (places) | Above normal (places) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 704 | 167 | 112 |
| Netherlands | 54 | 14 | 8 |
| United Kingdom | 2373 | 0 | 0 |
| United States | 279 | 3 | 2 |
| France | 3078 | 491 | 23 |
| Czechia | 540 | 0 | 0 |
| Canada | 2148 | 323 | 144 |
| Spain | 375 | 24 | 23 |
Furthest below normal
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Furthest above normal
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A familiar place. Three simple steps.
Find your water
Start with a country or a place you know. Each place with a current reading and a normal range for the date has a page of its own.
Browse by countryRead it in context
See where the reading sits against the normal range for the date, and how it compares with earlier years.
See today's listFollow the change
Records and the long history show when a level is the lowest or the highest in the data we hold.
Read the records
Clear about the number. Clear about the source.
- A time you can check
- Every reading shows when it was taken: the local time at the gauge, or the day for a source that reports once a day or once a week.
- A measure you can understand
- Height above a gauge zero, elevation above a sea-level datum and stored water each keep their own unit and are never mixed.
- A source you can inspect
- Every page names the agency that publishes the reading and the licence it comes under.
How we read the numbers
Each reading is compared with the normal range for its date: the 10th to 90th percentile of the same two weeks in every past year with enough data, at least 10 years.
Records set in the past week
Wangerooge WestJade, Germany
Lowest reading in our series since 1 January 2000: -240 cm at 21:28 CET on 25 October 2026. Provisional data.
Gundelsheim UPNeckar, Germany
Lowest reading in our series since 1 January 2000: -69 cm at 13:00 CET on 25 October 2026. Provisional data.
Gnevsdorf EPLower Havel Waterway, Germany
Lowest reading in our series since 1 January 2000: 63 cm at 05:15 CET on 25 October 2026. Provisional data.
Zwolle (Katerveer)IJssel, Netherlands
Lowest reading in our series since 1 January 2012: -61 cm at 02:30 CEST on 25 October 2026. Provisional data.
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DéolsRingoire, France
Highest daily high in our series since 20 October 2000: 2.625 m on 25 October 2026. Provisional data.
LangeaisLoire, France
Highest daily high in our series since 2 January 1987: 8.396 m on 25 October 2026. Provisional data.
RéginaApprouague, France
Highest daily high in our series since 20 December 1991: 5.669 m on 25 October 2026. Provisional data.
Kampen, KeteldiepIJssel, Netherlands
Lowest reading in our series since 1 January 2012: -87 cm at 01:20 CEST on 25 October 2026. Provisional data.
KampenIJssel, Netherlands
Lowest reading in our series since 1 January 2012: -87 cm at 01:10 CEST on 25 October 2026. Provisional data.
Wesenberg OPUpper Havel Waterway, Germany
Lowest reading in our series since 5 October 2010: 215 cm at 12:15 CEST on 24 October 2026. Provisional data.
Places to watch
KaubRhine, km 546.23
in the lowest 5 percent for the date
55 cm
+25 cm in a day
Lake MeadLake Mead
lower than any day of these dates in 85 years
1,038.03 ft
+0.32 ft in a day
Lake PowellLake Powell
lower than any day of these dates in 46 years
3,526.10 ft
+1.10 ft in a day
St. LouisMississippi River
6.82 ft
+0.34 ft in a day
LobithRhine
in the lowest 10 percent for the date
676 cm
+30 cm in a day
KingstonRiver Thames
4.525 m
-0.033 m in a day
Before you explore.
Which places can I explore?
Rivers, lakes and reservoirs at official gauges, in the countries listed on this page. A place with a long enough record of daily values also has a history page.
Are these live readings?
Each place page shows the newest reading the agency has published, with the time it was taken. Pages are rebuilt about once an hour, and history pages once a day. Some sources publish every few minutes, others once a day or once a week.
What does normal mean?
The normal range for a date is the range that most earlier years fell into at the same time of year. The exact rule is under How we read the numbers on this page.
Can I use these pages for navigation or flood decisions?
No. Readings are provisional or unchecked raw data and are not navigation, safety or flood advice. For floods or shipping, use the official warnings of the country you are in.
Start with a place you know.
A river near home. A lake you return to. A reservoir you want to understand.
Sources
- This uses Environment Agency flood and river level data from the real-time data API (Beta) (source). Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
- Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada (Water Survey of Canada) (source). Licence: ECCC Data Services End-use Licence v2.1.1
- Source : Hub'Eau / SCV, données PHyC (Licence Ouverte Etalab) (source). Licence: Licence Ouverte / Open Licence version 2.0
- Fuente: MITECO, Boletín Hidrológico (source). Licence: Reuse of public sector information under Spain's Ley 37/2007, with the source cited