World Water Levels

Elbe-Lübeck Canal at Büssau UP

The Elbe-Lübeck Canal at Büssau UP read 495 cm at .

That is within the normal range for the date.

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Normal range and official levels

The normal range for 5 October is 483 cm to 544 cm: the 10th to 90th percentile of the daily averages from 28 September to 12 October in 11 years between 2015 and 2025.

Records

  • Highest reading in our series since 22 July 2015: 699 cm at 22:34 CET on 2 January 2019. Provisional data.
  • Lowest reading in our series since 22 July 2015: 0 cm at 09:53 CEST on 24 May 2017. Provisional data.
  • Highest daily average in our series since 22 July 2015: 653.8 cm on 20 October 2023. Provisional data.
  • Lowest daily average in our series since 22 July 2015: 410.5 cm on 23 November 2023. Provisional data.

As the source publishes them

Our series holds a lower value (0 cm) than the record WSV publishes (419 cm); the published value may come from another period or may not be updated yet.

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The next gauges on this water by river kilometre.

About this gauge

Büssau UP is a gauge on the Elbe-Lübeck Canal in Germany, at river kilometre 3.4.

It lies at 53.8175° N, 10.6254° 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 -5.021 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