Main · km 251.97
Würzburg gauge — Main water levels
Held by locks Level held by locks. Weirs keep a working depth through a drought, so the risk on this stretch is high water and lock operations — not low water.
The Residenz city, and the most-called river port on the German Main. Thirty-four barrages hold this river between Mainz and Bamberg, so a low reading here closes nothing; what binds a cruise on the Main is high water and lock state, and the marks for those are Würzburg's own.
Right now
Würzburg Main
140 cm rising 4 centimetres over 72 hours rising 4 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.
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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Würzburg's own forecast page — opens HND Bayern
Bavaria's own page for Würzburg on the Main, with the same choices as its Danube siblings: the measured level, and a two-day trend. The scale is centimetres over Würzburg's own gauge datum of 164,51 m NHN, which is the same datum this site's readings are on — the two pages printed 135 cm for the same quarter-hour when this link was checked. Nothing further ahead than two days is published for this gauge by anybody: BfG's six-week outlook does not reach the Main.
Waterlogged does not reproduce or interpret the values on this page. Bavaria's flood service asserts its own copyright over this presentation, so its forward figures are linked and never mirrored.
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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. Its gauge pages also show the forecast for that gauge where a German authority publishes one, and leave the forecast column empty where none exists.
ELWIS content is OpenData. Commercial reuse is allowed only when the content is unchanged and credited “www.elwis.de”; ELWIS's own terms also permit links to its pages, as long as the source and the address “www.elwis.de” are named. Waterlogged may show a short quote word for word with that credit and a link. A paraphrase counts as an alteration, so we never rewrite notice content in our own words.
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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: 7.2 mm · 7 days: 7.2 mm · 14 days: 7.2 mm — forecast precipitation.
Rain forecast by Open-Meteo (commercial licence), model icon_seamless · fetched 7 September 2026 at 19:45 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: 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: Station name, number, river-km, gauge datum and characteristic values read live from PEGELONLINE REST v2 on 4 September 2026; the level was corroborated independently against Hochwassernachrichtendienst Bayern's own Würzburg page (24042000) at the same timestamp.
- Not for navigation. Nothing on this page should be used to plan the movement of a vessel.
The Main at Würzburg, live from PEGELONLINE (DL-DE/Zero 2.0) — 135 cm at 2026-09-04T23:45+02:00 on first wiring, corroborated the same minute by Bavaria's own flood service, which printed 135 cm over a gauge datum of 164,51 m NHN. IMPOUNDED CORRIDOR: PEGELONLINE publishes a Stauziel I — the normal impoundment target in the headwater of a barrage — of 123 cm for this station, so what this gauge reads is a pool a barrage holds, not a river finding its own level. Carried for corridor context and for the high-water tail; no low-water line is derived from it.
Spotted something wrong? How to report a correction · the full source matrix · this gauge in the threshold diary.
Where this gauge fits
The Würzburg gauge is one of the Main 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 Main 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.