World Water Levels

Lühe at Horneburg

The Lühe at Horneburg read 626 cm at .

That is above the normal range for the date, in the highest 10 percent of the daily averages of these dates in the 17 years between 2008 and 2025.

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Normal range and official levels

The normal range for 5 October is 556 cm to 621 cm: the 10th to 90th percentile of the daily averages from 28 September to 12 October in 17 years between 2008 and 2025.

Records

  • Highest reading in our series since 17 December 2008: 742 cm at 16:31 CET on 25 December 2023. Provisional data.
  • Lowest reading in our series since 17 December 2008: 499 cm at 06:55 CEST on 29 June 2009. Provisional data.
  • Highest daily average in our series since 17 December 2008: 731.5 cm on 25 December 2023. Provisional data.
  • Lowest daily average in our series since 17 December 2008: 515.5 cm on 20 November 2018. Provisional data.

As the source publishes them

About this gauge

Horneburg is a gauge on the Lühe in Germany, at river kilometre 0.25.

It lies at 53.5123° N, 9.5911° 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 -5.027 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