Potsdamer Havel at Potsdam
The Potsdamer Havel at Potsdam read 90 cm at .
That is within the normal range for the date.
- No change in 24 hours.
- Up 2 cm in 7 days.
- 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 84 cm to 97 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): 79 cm, over 2010 to 2020. (Mittel der Niedrigwasserstände) The newest reading is 11 cm above it.Set by PEGELONLINE REST API v2 (WSV, operated by ITZBund).
- Mean water level (MW): 97 cm, over 2010 to 2020. (Mittel der Tageswasserstände) The newest reading is 7 cm below it.Set by PEGELONLINE REST API v2 (WSV, operated by ITZBund).
- Mean high water level (MHW): 130 cm, over 2010 to 2020. (Mittel der Hochwasserstände) The newest reading is 40 cm below it.Set by PEGELONLINE REST API v2 (WSV, operated by ITZBund).
Records
- Highest reading in our series since 1 January 2000: 184 cm at 01:45 CET on 20 January 2011. Provisional data.
- Lowest reading in our series since 1 January 2000: 68 cm at 23:00 CEST on 14 September 2026. Provisional data.
- Highest daily average in our series since 1 January 2000: 182.8 cm on 20 January 2011. Provisional data.
- Lowest daily average in our series since 1 January 2000: 73.2 cm on 21 July 2014. Provisional data.
As the source publishes them
- Lowest low water level on record (NNW): 35 cm. (Niedrigster Niedrigwasserstand)Set by PEGELONLINE REST API v2 (WSV, operated by ITZBund).
- Highest high water level on record (HHW): 229 cm. (Höchster Hochwasserstand)Set by PEGELONLINE REST API v2 (WSV, operated by ITZBund).
About this gauge
Potsdam is a gauge on the Potsdamer Havel in Germany, at river kilometre 26.63.
It lies at 52.3999° N, 13.0721° 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 28.434 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.