normal for the date
Lower Havel Waterway at Bahnitz OP
The Lower Havel Waterway at Bahnitz OP read 187 cm at .
- Newest reading
- 187 cmProvisional
- Against normal for the date
- normalwithin the normal range for the date
- Normal range for the date
- 179 cm to 194 cmMedian 184 cm
- Change
- +1 cm in a day
- +3 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
Long views: the past year, the past decade and the whole record
Normal range and official levels
The normal range for 5 October is 179 cm to 194 cm: the 10th to 90th percentile of the daily averages from 28 September to 12 October in 26 years between 2000 and 2025.
- Mean low water level (MNW): 177 cm, over 2010 to 2020. (Mittel der Niedrigwasserstände) The newest reading is 10 cm above it.Set by PEGELONLINE REST API v2 (WSV, operated by ITZBund).
- Mean water level (MW): 206 cm, over 2010 to 2020. (Mittel der Tageswasserstände) The newest reading is 19 cm below it.Set by PEGELONLINE REST API v2 (WSV, operated by ITZBund).
- Mean high water level (MHW): 250 cm, over 2010 to 2020. (Mittel der Hochwasserstände) The newest reading is 63 cm below it.Set by PEGELONLINE REST API v2 (WSV, operated by ITZBund).
Records
- Highest reading in our series since 1 January 2000: 308 cm at 19:45 CET on 27 January 2011. Provisional data.
- Lowest reading in our series since 1 January 2000: 169 cm at 17:15 CEST on 5 October 2017. Provisional data.
- Highest daily average in our series since 1 January 2000: 308 cm on 28 January 2011. Provisional data.
- Lowest daily average in our series since 1 January 2000: 172.1 cm on 15 August 2012. Provisional data.
As the source publishes them
- Lowest low water level on record (NNW): 118 cm, on 8 July 1934. (Niedrigster Niedrigwasserstand)Set by PEGELONLINE REST API v2 (WSV, operated by ITZBund).
- Highest high water level on record (HHW): 322 cm, on 6 April 1940. (Höchster Hochwasserstand)Set by PEGELONLINE REST API v2 (WSV, operated by ITZBund).
Next gauges on this water
The next gauges on this water by river kilometre.
- Plaue UP, km 68: 141 cm
- Tieckow, km 76.33: 186 cm
- Lower Havel Waterway at Bahnitz OP
- Bahnitz UP, km 82.11: 108 cm
- Rathenow OP, km 102.86: 249 cm
About this gauge
Bahnitz OP is a gauge on the Lower Havel Waterway in Germany, at river kilometre 81.793.
It lies at 52.5014° N, 12.4187° 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 25.938 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.