normal for the date
Baltic Sea at Barhöft
The Baltic Sea at Barhöft read 493 cm at .
- Newest reading
- 493 cmProvisional
- Against normal for the date
- normalwithin the normal range for the date
- Normal range for the date
- 490 cm to 536 cmMedian 512 cm
- Change
- -16 cm in a day
- -37 cm in a week
That is within the normal range for the date.
We show no forecast values for German gauges: the forecasts PEGELONLINE relays come from the Federal Institute of Hydrology (BfG), whose terms allow only private and own use. ELWIS and the BfG publish them. ELWIS BfG 6-week forecast
Long views: the past year, the past decade and the whole record
Normal range and official levels
The normal range for 5 October is 490 cm to 536 cm: the 10th to 90th percentile of the daily averages from 28 September to 12 October in 26 years between 2000 and 2025.
- Mean low water level (MNW): 420 cm, over 2010 to 2020. (Mittel der Niedrigwasserstände) The newest reading is 73 cm above it.Set by PEGELONLINE REST API v2 (WSV, operated by ITZBund).
- Mean water level (MW): 510 cm, over 2010 to 2020. (Mittel der Tageswasserstände) The newest reading is 17 cm below it.Set by PEGELONLINE REST API v2 (WSV, operated by ITZBund).
- Mean high water level (MHW): 607 cm, over 2010 to 2020. (Mittel der Hochwasserstände) The newest reading is 114 cm below it.Set by PEGELONLINE REST API v2 (WSV, operated by ITZBund).
Records
- Highest reading in our series since 1 January 2000: 648 cm at 15:24 CET on 2 January 2019. Provisional data.
- Lowest reading in our series since 1 January 2000: 385 cm at 06:47 CET on 23 November 2023. Provisional data.
- Highest daily average in our series since 1 January 2000: 616.4 cm on 20 October 2023. Provisional data.
- Lowest daily average in our series since 1 January 2000: 431.9 cm on 10 December 2014. Provisional data.
As the source publishes them
- Lowest daily water level in the period (NW): 398 cm, on 28 November 2011, over 2010 to 2020. (Niedrigster Tageswasserstand)Set by PEGELONLINE REST API v2 (WSV, operated by ITZBund).
- Highest water level in the period (HW): 648 cm, on 2 January 2019, over 2010 to 2020. (Höchster Momentanwasserstand)Set by PEGELONLINE REST API v2 (WSV, operated by ITZBund).
About this gauge
Barhöft is a gauge on the Baltic Sea in Germany.
It lies at 54.4345° N, 13.0322° E.
Its readings come from the Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration (WSV), through PEGELONLINE.
The gauge reads the height of the water above a fixed zero, not the depth of the river. Its zero lies at -4.977 m above NHN (the German sea-level datum), valid from 1 November 2019.
PEGELONLINE publishes its readings as unchecked raw data.
The newest reading is provisional: the source may still correct it.