Danube · km 1646.5

Budapest

Free-flowing The river runs free here, so the level is the constraint: this is where a drought actually binds a hull.

The middle Danube at the city itself, where ships have queued downstream unable to reach their berth. Our bands here are calibrated judgment, not a published fairway depth.

Right now

Budapest Danube

24 cm rising 9 centimetres over 72 hours rising 9 cm over 72 hours

126 cm below the 150 cm clear-line. Waterlogged clear-line, using an assumed 1.60 m draught. calibrated judgment

1 hour ago · source: EuRIS Hydrometeo v3

Measured history, last 4 days · 10–25 cm

A Waterlogged clear-line is our own arithmetic: the gauge reading at which the published reference depth, minus the ship's draught and a fixed safety allowance, still leaves a comfortable margin. It is not an operator's decision rule and no cruise line uses it. Computed using an assumed 1.60 m draught unless a cruise line is selected.

Official forecasts and notices for this gauge

Linking is not endorsement. The publisher controls its own page, its own values and its own terms.

  • hydroinfo.hu — Hungarian hydrological service (official Danube levels and notices)

    Hungary's official hydrological pages for the Danube, including Budapest.

    Official external site — leaves Waterlogged. Published by Országos Vízügyi Főigazgatóság (OVF). Link checked 2026-08-02.

    Waterlogged does not reproduce or interpret the values on this page. No written reuse permission is held. Waterlogged publishes no hydroinfo time series, day-of-year median, selected low year or fitted parameter on a customer page.

  • vizugy.hu — Hungarian water directorate live gauge pages

    The Hungarian directorate's own live level pages, including the Budapest gauge.

    Official external site — leaves Waterlogged. Published by Országos Vízügyi Főigazgatóság (OVF). Link checked 2026-08-02.

    Waterlogged does not reproduce or interpret the values on this page. Live display with attribution is one thing; the multi-year archive behind it is permission-gated, and Waterlogged derives nothing from it.

  • EuRIS — European River Information Services portal

    The European portal that distributes the current Budapest and Kienstock readings Waterlogged shows, naming OVF and viadonau as the originators.

    Official external site — leaves Waterlogged. Published by European River Information Services (EuRIS). Link checked 2026-08-02.

History on this date

History on this date

The multi-year archive behind this gauge is permission-gated, so Waterlogged publishes no history panel for it. The publisher's own pages are linked above.

This is measured history, not a forecast and not an estimate of disruption probability.

Rain in the next 14 days

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Rain may slow a fall or create a rise after losses and routing. Waterlogged does not convert this forecast into gauge centimetres or a cruise-disruption probability.

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Source, licence and limits

Hungarian Danube reference, delivered through the EuRIS Hydrometeo v3 API. Threshold-only: the risk call here is explicitly judgment, and the UI must say so.

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