World Water Levels

Oste at Belum

The Oste at Belum read 462 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 26 years between 2000 and 2025.

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Normal range and official levels

The normal range for 5 October is 494 cm to 576 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: 1,007 cm at 03:00 CET on 6 December 2013. Provisional data.
  • Lowest reading in our series since 1 January 2000: 209 cm at 22:49 CEST on 4 September 2026. Provisional data.
  • Highest daily average in our series since 1 January 2000: 792.9 cm on 6 December 2013. Provisional data.
  • Lowest daily average in our series since 1 January 2000: 345.7 cm on 1 March 2018. Provisional data.

As the source publishes them

Next gauges on this water

The next gauges on this water by river kilometre.

  • Oste-Sperrwerk BP, km 69.575: 459 cm
  • Oste-Sperrwerk AP, km 69.575: 464 cm

About this gauge

Belum is a gauge on the Oste in Germany, at river kilometre 69.89.

It lies at 53.8228° N, 9.0371° 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 -5.025 m above NN (the former German sea-level datum), valid from 21 April 1998.

PEGELONLINE publishes its readings as unchecked raw data.

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

See also