Danube · km 1646.5
Budapest gauge — Danube water levels
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 read off 35 years of records, not a published fairway depth.
Right now
Budapest Danube
80 cm rising 32 centimetres over 72 hours rising 32 cm over 72 hours
20 cm above the 60 cm estimated level. Waterlogged’s estimated level from 35 years of records: every cruise-season day below it fell within a documented disruption.
Official forecasts and notices for this gauge
Linking is not endorsement. The publisher controls its own page, its own values and its own terms.
The official prediction for this gauge
EuRIS official water-level prediction for Budapest Waterlogged retrieved this prediction: 20 Sep 2026, 18:16 CEST
EuRIS official water-level prediction for Budapest
API/Service Hydrometeo v3 incorporated from EuRIS (eurisportal.eu). Waterlogged retrieved this prediction: 20 Sep 2026, 18:16 CEST.
Országos Vízügyi Főigazgatóság (OVF) / General Directorate of Water Management — EuRIS names Országos Vízügyi Főigazgatóság (OVF) as the source of this gauge series.
EuRIS publishes no issue time with this prediction, so the time above is when we retrieved it, not when EuRIS made it.
| Time at the gauge | Water level (cm) |
|---|---|
| Mon 21 Sep, 01:00 | 69 |
| Mon 21 Sep, 07:00 | 61 |
| Mon 21 Sep, 13:00 | 54 |
| Mon 21 Sep, 19:00 | 48 |
| Tue 22 Sep, 01:00 | 44 |
| Tue 22 Sep, 07:00 | 40 |
| Tue 22 Sep, 13:00 | 37 |
| Tue 22 Sep, 19:00 | 36 |
| Wed 23 Sep, 01:00 | 34 |
| Wed 23 Sep, 07:00 | 32 |
| Wed 23 Sep, 13:00 | 32 |
| Wed 23 Sep, 19:00 | 32 |
| Thu 24 Sep, 01:00 | 31 |
| Thu 24 Sep, 07:00 | 30 |
| Thu 24 Sep, 13:00 | 30 |
| Thu 24 Sep, 19:00 | 30 |
| Fri 25 Sep, 01:00 | 29 |
| Fri 25 Sep, 07:00 | 29 |
| Fri 25 Sep, 13:00 | 28 |
| Fri 25 Sep, 19:00 | 28 |
| Sat 26 Sep, 01:00 | 28 |
| Sat 26 Sep, 07:00 | 28 |
22 figures, from Mon 21 Sep, 01:00 to Sat 26 Sep, 07:00, in local time at the gauge.
Every figure is EuRIS's own, in centimetres at the gauge. Nothing between two figures is filled in by us, and nothing is added beyond the last one.
EuRIS prediction run 7b297e1b-cdc9-4a51-854b-8feddee4e468.
The EuRIS portal, where this prediction is published (opens in a new tab)
Országos Vízügyi Főigazgatóság (OVF)’s own river information service (opens in a new tab)
Predicted water levels are from EuRIS. Waterlogged only reports historical and current data.
Every figure above is a water level at the gauge, in centimetres. It is not the depth of water under a ship and it is not a ship's draft.
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Official Budapest water-level forecast — opens hydroinfo.hu (English)
Hungary's own forecast table for the Danube at Budapest, in English. It gives a level in centimetres every six hours, about six days ahead, with the service's own plus-or-minus figure widening the further out you read. The table names the hour it was issued.
Waterlogged does not reproduce or interpret the values on this page. Waterlogged has received permission from Országos Vízügyi Főigazgatóság (OVF) / General Directorate of Water Management to publish water-level data provided the content accurately reflects reality and the source is credited. This forecast table is still linked rather than copied: a forecast is the publisher's own product and we send you to it.
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vizugy.hu — Hungarian water directorate live gauge pages
The Hungarian directorate's own live level pages, including the Budapest gauge.
Waterlogged does not reproduce or interpret the values on this page. Waterlogged has received permission from Országos Vízügyi Főigazgatóság (OVF) / General Directorate of Water Management to publish water-level data provided the content accurately reflects reality and the source is credited. The Budapest readings we show travel through EuRIS with OVF's credit beside them; nothing is copied from these pages.
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EuRIS — European River Information Services portal
The European portal that distributes the current Budapest, Kienstock and Bulgarian lower-Danube readings Waterlogged shows, naming OVF, viadonau and ИАППД as the originators.
History on this date
The five lowest years in this archive around this calendar date
Archive span: 1992 to 2018, in this archive · 5 eligible years.
| Year | Lowest in the window | On | Level at the end of the window | Measured 72-hour change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 62 cm | 2003-09-11 | 89 cm | 12 cm |
| 2015 | 71 cm | 2015-09-23 | 74 cm | -9 cm |
| 1992 | 73 cm | 1992-10-01 | 130 cm | 58 cm |
| 2018 | 79 cm | 2018-10-03 | 83 cm | -4 cm |
| 1997 | 91 cm | 1997-10-01 | 216 cm | 125 cm |
The window is the 14 days either side of today's calendar date. Years are ranked by their lowest measured daily mean inside it.
Measured water-level data from Országos Vízügyi Főigazgatóság (OVF) / General Directorate of Water Management, published with its permission. Daily values are arithmetic means of each day's observations; where a figure here is worked out from them rather than copied, the input data originate from the General Directorate of Water Management.
- Measured daily means only; missing dates are omitted and gaps are never interpolated.
- This panel describes historical measurements and fitted seasonality, not a forecast.
- Day-of-year medians use only the licensed measurements available for this gauge.
- The current-year series ends at no date in the window; later licensed measurements are unavailable.
This is measured history, not a forecast and not an estimate of disruption probability.
Rain in the next 14 days
Rhine above Kaub — representative catchment precipitation.
3 days: 0.2 mm · 7 days: 0.2 mm · 14 days: 0.2 mm — forecast precipitation.
Rain forecast by Open-Meteo (commercial licence), model icon_seamless · fetched 20 September 2026 at 14:37 UTC · covering 14 days, 20 September to 3 October.
Weather data by Open-Meteo (commercial licence) · Representative catchment precipitation total from 8 weighted sampling points; a point sample, not an areal mean.
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.
Read a rain forecast at the source
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Deutscher Wetterdienst — official German weather forecasts
Germany's national weather service forecast for the Rhine, Main, Moselle and Danube catchments.
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yr.no — free European rain forecasts (MET Norway / NRK)
A free public forecast covering the same catchments, if you want rain amounts today.
Source, licence and limits
- Source: EuRIS Hydrometeo v3 — terms of use.
- Measurement time: every reading on this page shows the time it was taken, and a stale reading is flagged rather than reused.
- Transformation: the level is the publisher's. The gap, where one is shown, is Waterlogged's arithmetic and is labelled as such.
- Reference-data note: live level via EuRIS; thresholds are Waterlogged's own, set from 35 years of OVF records joined to the documented disruption record — input data originate from the General Directorate of Water Management
- Not for navigation. Nothing on this page should be used to plan the movement of a vessel.
Hungarian Danube reference, delivered through the EuRIS Hydrometeo v3 API. Threshold-only: the bands here are set from the measured record rather than from a maintained depth, and the UI must say so.
Spotted something wrong? How to report a correction · the full source matrix · this gauge in the threshold diary.
Where this gauge fits
The Budapest gauge is one of the Danube gauges we read. To see it next to the others, with the same reading and the same 72-hour move for each, read today's Danube water levels.
Worried about a booking rather than a number? Will my river cruise be cancelled because of low water? sets out what a low reading does and does not mean, and only the cruise line decides. To put these gauges against one particular sailing — your ports, in order, on your dates — start from the front page.