normal for the date
Rhine at Ottenheim
The Rhine at Ottenheim read 298 cm at .
- Newest reading
- 298 cmProvisional
- Against normal for the date
- normalwithin the normal range for the date
- Normal range for the date
- 296 cm to 304 cmMedian 299 cm
- Change
- 0 cm in a day
- 0 cm in a week
That is within the normal range for the date.
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 296 cm to 304 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: 604 cm at 03:30 CEST on 10 August 2007. Provisional data.
- Lowest reading in our series since 1 January 2000: 289 cm at 13:00 CEST on 25 October 2021. Provisional data.
- Highest daily average in our series since 1 January 2000: 566.6 cm on 2 June 2013. Provisional data.
- Lowest daily average in our series since 1 January 2000: 290.9 cm on 25 October 2021. Provisional data.
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The next gauges on this water by river kilometre.
About this gauge
Ottenheim is a gauge on the Rhine in Germany, at river kilometre 270.6.
It lies at 48.3846° N, 7.7327° 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 147.32 m above NHN (the German sea-level datum), valid from 1 November 2018.
PEGELONLINE publishes its readings as unchecked raw data.
The newest reading is provisional: the source may still correct it.