World Water Levels

Ilmenau at Fahrenholz UP

The Ilmenau at Fahrenholz UP read 686 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 596 cm to 688 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: 881 cm at 17:41 CEST on 2 July 2025. Provisional data.
  • Lowest reading in our series since 1 January 2000: 0 cm at 01:00 CET on 1 January 2000. Provisional data.
  • Highest daily average in our series since 1 January 2000: 865 cm on 14 June 2013. Provisional data.
  • Lowest daily average in our series since 1 January 2000: 0 cm on 1 January 2000. Provisional data.

As the source publishes them

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About this gauge

Fahrenholz UP is a gauge on the Ilmenau in Germany, at river kilometre 17.71.

It lies at 53.3603° N, 10.3155° 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 -4.99 m above NHN (the German sea-level datum), valid from 1 November 2017.

PEGELONLINE publishes its readings as unchecked raw data.

The newest reading is provisional: the source may still correct it.

See also