World Water Levels

normal for the date

Baltic Sea at Stralsund

The Baltic Sea at Stralsund read 490 cm at .

Newest reading
490 cmProvisional
Against normal for the date
normalwithin the normal range for the date
Normal range for the date
487 cm to 539 cmMedian 511 cm
Change
  • -16 cm in a day
  • -43 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

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Normal range and official levels

The normal range for 5 October is 487 cm to 539 cm: the 10th to 90th percentile of the daily averages from 28 September to 12 October in 26 years between 2000 and 2025.

Records

  • Highest reading in our series since 1 January 2000: 657 cm at 08:46 CET on 21 February 2002. Provisional data.
  • Lowest reading in our series since 1 January 2000: 366 cm at 09:00 CET on 23 November 2023. Provisional data.
  • Highest daily average in our series since 1 January 2000: 625.1 cm on 20 October 2023. Provisional data.
  • Lowest daily average in our series since 1 January 2000: 424.1 cm on 27 November 2011. Provisional data.

As the source publishes them

About this gauge

Stralsund is a gauge on the Baltic Sea in Germany.

It lies at 54.3057° N, 13.1190° 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 -4.975 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.

See also