A port of call on 127 of the river cruise sailings we watch. Below: the water those ships travel when they call here, measured this morning, and one story from it.
Free-flowing · Vienna (Danube-km 1929) – Budapest (Danube-km 1646)
127 of the 127 sailings that call at Bratislava travel this stretch of river.
The gauge that governs this stretch of river is at Budapest.
Budapest Danube
-1 cm falling 4 centimetres over 72 hours falling 4 cm over 72 hours
61 cm below the 60 cm estimated level. Waterlogged’s estimated level from 35 years of records: every cruise-season day below it fell within a documented disruption.
Held by locks · Passau (Danube-km 2226) – Vienna (Danube-km 1929), except the Wachau (Melk–Krems, Danube-km 2036–2002)
49 of the 127 sailings that call at Bratislava travel this stretch of river.
The gauge we read here is at Kienstock, on the Wachau next to this stretch, not on this water, so it does not govern it.
Kienstock Danube
98 cm falling 1 centimetres over 72 hours falling 1 cm over 72 hours
No line published. The waterway authority publishes a low-water reference for this gauge, shown here as their figure, but no maintained depth to pair with it, so no line a ship needs is published for this stretch.
viadonau’s published low-water reference (RNW 2020): 161 cm.
Every reading here is a measurement somebody has already taken, never a forecast. The writing beside it is history and geography: it tells you nothing about today's water and nothing about whether a ship sails. Your cruise line decides what your ship does.
Just west of the castle rock at Devín the Morava/March arrives from the north. Czech, Slovak and Austrian catchment between the Bohemian highlands, the Carpathians and the Pannonian edge: 26,658 km². ICPDR flags the confluence as ecologically rich. Downstream the slope collapses and the river dumps gravel as the Little Alföld island-delta (Szigetköz / Žitný ostrov). Bratislava is the hydrologic hinge from Alpine collector to Pannonian plain.
ongoing · icpdr.org · icpdr.org (2)
Every story here says where it was read. A link opens the publisher's own page; a title names a published work we read.
And 115 more. Find your own sailing to see the water on the days you are on it.
Linking is not endorsement. The publisher controls its own page, its own values and its own terms.
