Main water levels today
What the water is actually doing on the Main today, at the places a river cruise ship
has to get through. Every number is a measurement that has already been taken.
Readings on this page were last measured 7 September.
The Main at Würzburg
138 cm
(measured 7 September)
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Over the last 72 hours: steady.
We publish no comparison line for this gauge. This reading is context for the reach
rather than a figure to measure a ship against, and inventing a line to compare it
with would be worse than saying so.
We do not draw a measured history graph for this gauge. The reading above is current and official; the archive the graph would be drawn from is not ours to republish.
Everything we hold on the Würzburg gauge —
its reading today, the same date in earlier years, and the authority that publishes it.
What this means for your sailing
It means less than a cruise line would like you to think and more than a search result will
tell you. A reading below the line we draw does not mean your cruise is cancelled, and a
reading above it is not a promise that it will sail. Only the operator decides that.
Waterlogged does not provide a future river depth forecast. The trend and the graph describe
measured moves that have already happened.
To see these gauges arranged against one particular sailing — the ports in order, the dates
you are actually on the water — start from the front page and pick your cruise line, your
cruise and your departure date.
Sailing more than one river? We watch the same way on
the Rhine, the Danube, the Moselle and the Elbe.
Find your sailing ·
Will my river cruise be cancelled?
Where these readings come from
BfG forecasts are displayed unchanged with source credit and issue time where licensed; other official forecasts are linked at their source. Nothing we display is rescored.
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Data source: Wasserstraßen- und Schifffahrtsverwaltung des Bundes (WSV), PEGELONLINE — DL-DE-Zero 2.0.
Full method, licences and the render-or-withhold decision for every feed are on the
sources page.
