World Water Levels

normal for the date

Elbe-Havel Canal at Genthin

The Elbe-Havel Canal at Genthin read 305 cm at .

Newest reading
305 cmProvisional
Against normal for the date
normalwithin the normal range for the date
Normal range for the date
297 cm to 307 cmMedian 302 cm
Change
  • +1 cm in a day
  • +2 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 297 cm to 307 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 31 May 2000: 335 cm at 09:45 CET on 25 December 2018. Provisional data.
  • Lowest reading in our series since 31 May 2000: 244 cm at 04:15 CET on 5 February 2013. Provisional data.
  • Highest daily average in our series since 31 May 2000: 328.8 cm on 8 January 2019. Provisional data.
  • Lowest daily average in our series since 31 May 2000: 258.2 cm on 19 August 2002. Provisional data.

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About this gauge

Genthin is a gauge on the Elbe-Havel Canal in Germany, at river kilometre 361.444.

It lies at 52.4109° N, 12.1400° 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 29.212 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.

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