Danube · km 833.6
Novo Selo 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 first Bulgarian gauge below the Iron Gates, at the head of the border run. Cruise traffic passes it between the gorge and Vidin.
Right now
Novo Selo Danube
-67 cm 72-hour trend unknown trend unknown over 72 hours
162 cm below the 95 cm published low-water reference. Published low-water reference for this stretch. The waterway authority's own published figure for this stretch, not Waterlogged's arithmetic and not a requirement set by any cruise line.
The waterway authority's own published figure for this stretch, not Waterlogged's arithmetic and not a requirement set by any cruise line.
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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ИАППД — official Bulgarian Danube water levels (Bulgarian)
The Bulgarian Danube authority's own level page: level, discharge, the change over the last twenty-four hours and water temperature, for twenty stations along the Bulgarian bank. Eight of the twenty are read by hand and twelve report automatically, and it is the source of the readings this site shows for this stretch.
Waterlogged does not reproduce or interpret the values on this page. Not link-only. ИАППД publishes reuse terms whose one operative condition is that it be named, visibly, as the source of the primary data, and this site names it beside every reading. The link is here so a reader can reach the authority's own page, not because we may not quote it.
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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
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
Rhine above Kaub — representative catchment precipitation.
3 days: 11.6 mm · 7 days: 11.6 mm · 14 days: 11.6 mm — forecast precipitation.
Rain forecast by Open-Meteo (commercial licence), model icon_seamless · fetched 7 September 2026 at 01:27 UTC · covering 14 days, 7 September to 20 September.
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 (originator IAPPD); low-water reference LDC transcribed from IAPPD's own RIS Index of 1 July 2021 and confirmed identical in the EuRIS thresholdReference for this series on 14 August 2026. See waterlogged/refdata/lower_danube_stations.json.
- Not for navigation. Nothing on this page should be used to plan the movement of a vessel.
Bulgarian lower-Danube station, originated by IAPPD and delivered through the EuRIS Hydrometeo v3 API. Carries the Danube Commission's published low navigable water level and no depth model: the reading and the reference line are real, the ship-need arithmetic is not attempted.
Spotted something wrong? How to report a correction · the full source matrix · this gauge in the threshold diary.
Where this gauge fits
The Novo Selo 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.