WaterloggedRiver Cruise Watch

The river's logbook for cruise travellers

Danube water levels today

What the water is actually doing on the Danube today, at the places a river cruise ship has to get through. Every number is a measurement that has already been taken.

Readings on this page were last measured 7 September.

The Danube at Pfelling

214 cm (measured 7 September)

Over the last 72 hours: falling 9 cm.

Published An authority's published low-level mark for a stretch. It is not a requirement for your ship. for this stretch: 290 cm. Today's reading is 76 cm below it.

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The solid line is what this gauge has measured. The dashed line is the level normal for the date (median for 2015–2026). The dotted line is the comparison line above. Nothing here is a forecast.

Open the official projection. The official product, published by BfG, 14-day. We link it; we do not copy it or rescore it.

Everything we hold on the Pfelling gauge — its reading today, the same date in earlier years, and the authority that publishes it.

The Danube at Hofkirchen

155 cm (measured 7 September)

Over the last 72 hours: rising 2 cm.

Published An authority's published low-level mark for a stretch. It is not a requirement for your ship. for this stretch: 207 cm. Today's reading is 52 cm below it.

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The solid line is what this gauge has measured. The dashed line is the level normal for the date (median for 2015–2026). The dotted line is the comparison line above. Nothing here is a forecast.

Open the official projection. The official product, published by BfG, 14-day. We link it; we do not copy it or rescore it.

Everything we hold on the Hofkirchen gauge — its reading today, the same date in earlier years, and the authority that publishes it.

The Danube at Kienstock

95 cm (measured 7 September)

Over the last 72 hours: falling 12 cm.

We publish no comparison line for this gauge. This reading is context for the reach rather than a figure to measure a ship against, and inventing a line to compare it with would be worse than saying so.

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The solid line is what this gauge has measured. The dashed line is the level normal for the date (median for 2002–2026). Nothing here is a forecast.

Open the official projection. The official product, published by viadonau / DoRIS. We link it; we do not copy it or rescore it.

Everything we hold on the Kienstock gauge — its reading today, the same date in earlier years, and the authority that publishes it.

The Danube at Budapest

10 cm (measured 7 September)

Over the last 72 hours: falling 24 cm.

Waterlogged’s Waterlogged's estimated level for this stretch, set from the measured record rather than from any ship's draught. In 35 years of readings, every day of the cruise season below it fell inside a disruption somebody documented at the time. It is a gauge level, not a depth under a ship, and no authority or cruise line publishes it.: 60 cm. Today's reading is 50 cm below it.

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The solid line is what this gauge has measured. The dashed line is the level normal for the date (median for 1991–2025). The dotted line is the comparison line above. Nothing here is a forecast.

Open the official projection. The official product, published by OVF / OVSZ. We link it; we do not copy it or rescore it.

Everything we hold on the Budapest gauge — its reading today, the same date in earlier years, and the authority that publishes it.

What this means for your sailing

It means less than a cruise line would like you to think and more than a search result will tell you. A reading below the line we draw does not mean your cruise is cancelled, and a reading above it is not a promise that it will sail. Only the operator decides that.

Waterlogged does not provide a future river depth forecast. The trend and the graph describe measured moves that have already happened.

To see these gauges arranged against one particular sailing — the ports in order, the dates you are actually on the water — start from the front page and pick your cruise line, your cruise and your departure date.

Sailing more than one river? We watch the same way on the Rhine, the Main, the Moselle and the Elbe.

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Where these readings come from

BfG forecasts are displayed unchanged with source credit and issue time where licensed; other official forecasts are linked at their source. Nothing we display is rescored.

Full method, licences and the render-or-withhold decision for every feed are on the sources page.

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