World Water Levels

North Sea at Spiekeroog

The North Sea at Spiekeroog read 443 cm at .

That is below the normal range for the date, in the lowest 5 percent of the daily averages of these dates in the 23 years between 2000 and 2025.

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Normal range and official levels

The normal range for 5 October is 490 cm to 562 cm: the 10th to 90th percentile of the daily averages from 28 September to 12 October in 23 years between 2000 and 2025.

Records

  • Highest reading in our series since 1 January 2000: 920 cm at 01:27 CET on 6 December 2013. Provisional data.
  • Lowest reading in our series since 1 January 2000: 246 cm at 06:08 CET on 1 March 2018. Provisional data.
  • Highest daily average in our series since 1 January 2000: 732.2 cm on 6 December 2013. Provisional data.
  • Lowest daily average in our series since 1 January 2000: 361.9 cm on 1 March 2018. Provisional data.

As the source publishes them

About this gauge

Spiekeroog is a gauge on the North Sea in Germany.

It lies at 53.7492° N, 7.6819° 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 -5.08 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