Elbe · km 2.05
Schöna gauge — Elbe water levels
The border station at Schöna, where the Elbe crosses out of Bohemia — the water Dresden and Děčín both get, read before it arrives. We show it to say where the river is coming from; it has no model of its own, so it never moves a call.
Right now
Schöna Elbe
77 cm falling 9 centimetres over 72 hours falling 9 cm over 72 hours
low on mean low/high water (MNW/MHW) — the publisher's own classification of its own reading.
No official high-water mark is transcribed for this gauge from a source we have read, so none is shown. Read the authority's notices.
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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Schöna's own forecast page — opens Saxony's state flood centre
Saxony's own page for the border gauge. Below the measured table sits a forecast table headed with the hour it was made, giving a level in centimetres every three hours for about three days. BfG's six-week outlook does not reach this gauge.
Waterlogged does not reproduce or interpret the values on this page. The Saxon centre publishes these values as its own unchecked raw data and asserts its own copyright, so its forward figures are linked and never mirrored.
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Schöna's own forecast page — opens ELWIS
The waterways authority's own page for the first German gauge below the Czech border. It gives a level every two hours for roughly the next four days, and marks the later columns as an estimate rather than a forecast.
ELWIS content is OpenData and its terms permit links to its pages when the source and the address “www.elwis.de” are named. Waterlogged copies nothing from this page.
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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
Rhine above Kaub — representative catchment precipitation.
3 days: 0.8 mm · 7 days: 3.3 mm · 14 days: 3.3 mm — forecast precipitation.
Rain forecast by Open-Meteo (commercial licence), model icon_seamless · fetched 20 September 2026 at 06:46 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: PEGELONLINE (WSV) — 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 PEGELONLINE station SCHÖNA (WSV, DL-DE/Zero), confirmed live 31 Jul 2026 at 67 cm and 2 Aug 2026 at 63 cm, stateMnwMhw=low both times (docs/waterway_sources_central_east.md §1). Deliberately NOT declared in reaches.json's elbe secondary_gauges: a model-less gauge on a free-flowing reach is unassessable, and every declared free-flowing gauge is a required publication input, so declaring it would withdraw the published call on every Elbe sailing. See that reach's source_note.
- Not for navigation. Nothing on this page should be used to plan the movement of a vessel.
The last German gauge before the Czech border, on the free-flowing Elbe upstream of Dresden. CONTEXT ONLY: the level is fetched live from the official PEGELONLINE station SCHÖNA (requested as the ASCII id SCHOENA and translated in the adapter, exactly as Cologne/KÖLN is), but no depth model and no reference marks exist for it, so it carries no risk model and cannot change any call. The Elbe reach is scored from Dresden, which is the controlling gauge.
Spotted something wrong? How to report a correction · the full source matrix · this gauge in the threshold diary.
Where this gauge fits
The Schöna gauge is one of the Elbe 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 Elbe 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.