World Water Levels

Main at Mainflingen

The Main at Mainflingen read 72 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 70 cm to 88 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: 626 cm at 22:45 CET on 4 January 2003. Provisional data.
  • Lowest reading in our series since 1 January 2000: 41 cm at 09:15 CET on 13 January 2026. Provisional data.
  • Highest daily average in our series since 1 January 2000: 603.4 cm on 4 January 2003. Provisional data.
  • Lowest daily average in our series since 1 January 2000: 47.9 cm on 13 January 2026. Provisional data.

As the source publishes them

Our series holds a lower value (41 cm) than the record WSV publishes (61 cm); the published value may come from another period or may not be updated yet.

Next gauges on this water

The next gauges on this water by river kilometre.

About this gauge

Mainflingen is a gauge on the Main in Germany, at river kilometre 76.43.

It lies at 50.0154° N, 9.0337° 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 101.125 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