Elbe · km 55.6
Dresden
Free-flowing The river runs free here, so the level is the constraint: this is where a drought actually binds a hull.
The free-flowing Elbe — the shallowest cruising river in the network, and the one that closes first. The reading is live PEGELONLINE; our bands here remain calibrated judgment.
Right now
Dresden Elbe
53 cm rising 1 centimetres over 72 hours rising 1 cm over 72 hours
low on mean low/high water (MNW/MHW) · normal on navigational reference levels (NSW/HSW) — the publisher's own classification of its own reading.
77 cm below the 130 cm clear-line. Waterlogged clear-line, using an assumed 1.60 m draught. calibrated judgment
Measured history, last 4 days · 52–56 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.
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Official German federal six-week outlook (weekly means) — opens BfG
BfG publishes this as a trend statement in weekly means, not as day-by-day cruise guidance. Open the official product to read BfG's own figures and caveats.
Waterlogged does not reproduce or interpret the values on this page. Same unresolved reuse basis as the 14-day product. Waterlogged does not convert weekly means into per-day levels or passenger probabilities.
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ELWIS — German federal waterways notices and navigation information
The official notices channel for commercial navigation on the German waterways: closures, lock works and high-water restrictions in the authority's own wording.
Waterlogged does not reproduce or interpret the values on this page. Linking needs no licence; the notice text remains governed by the publisher's terms, so Waterlogged does not scrape it into a report.
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PEGELONLINE — German federal waterways gauge service
The publisher of every German centimetre on this site, with its own station pages and its own classification of each reading.
History on this date
History on this date
The same-date history panel for this gauge is not available in this build.
This is measured history, not a forecast and not an estimate of disruption probability.
Rain in the next 14 days
Status: rain forecast not yet enabled. Waterlogged shows forecast precipitation only under a paid Open-Meteo commercial contract, and no contract key is configured on this deployment. The official services linked below publish their own rain forecasts.
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: PEGELONLINE (WSV) — terms of use.
- Measurement time: every reading on this page carries 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 PEGELONLINE station DRESDEN (WSV, DL-DE/Zero), station number 501060, gauge zero 102.7 m ü. NHN, confirmed live 31 Jul 2026 at 53 cm and 2 Aug 2026 at 55 cm (docs/waterway_sources_central_east.md §1); thresholds remain calibrated judgment against the GlW 2010 vintage recorded in thresholds_cm.source_note — verify vs WSV/ELWIS Elbe fairway notices before publication
- Not for navigation. Nothing on this page should be used to plan the movement of a vessel.
Controlling gauge for the Elbe. The level is fetched live from the official PEGELONLINE station DRESDEN. The model remains THRESHOLD-ONLY and JUDGMENT-BASED, like Budapest, because no maintained-depth model has been transcribed; the UI must say so and feed loss suppresses the v2 split.
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