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Kiel Canal at NOK Brunsbüttel

The Kiel Canal at NOK Brunsbüttel read 485 cm at .

Newest reading
485 cmProvisional
Against normal for the date
lowin the lowest 5 percent for the date
Normal range for the date
488 cm to 507 cmMedian 495 cm
Change
  • +5 cm in a day
  • -20 cm in a week

That is below the normal range for the date, in the lowest 5 percent of the daily averages of these dates in the 19 years between 2007 and 2025.

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 488 cm to 507 cm: the 10th to 90th percentile of the daily averages from 28 September to 12 October in 19 years between 2007 and 2025.

Records

  • Highest reading in our series since 15 January 2007: 599 cm at 11:03 CEST on 17 October 2020. Provisional data.
  • Lowest reading in our series since 15 January 2007: 457 cm at 14:01 CEST on 2 October 2018. Provisional data.
  • Highest daily average in our series since 15 January 2007: 546.3 cm on 6 January 2012. Provisional data.
  • Lowest daily average in our series since 15 January 2007: 472.2 cm on 30 January 2022. Provisional data.

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About this gauge

NOK Brunsbüttel is a gauge on the Kiel Canal in Germany, at river kilometre 2.116.

It lies at 53.8984° N, 9.1499° 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 m above NHN (the German sea-level datum), valid from 10 July 2009.

PEGELONLINE publishes its readings as unchecked raw data.

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

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