Passau

A port of call on 186 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.

The water here

German Danube free stretch (Straubing–Vilshofen)

Free-flowing · Straubing (Danube-km 2321) – Vilshofen (Danube-km 2249)

166 of the 186 sailings that call at Passau travel this stretch of river.

The gauge that governs this stretch of river is at Pfelling, and we read one more station beside it.

Pfelling Danube

214 cm falling 9 centimetres over 72 hours falling 9 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.

76 cm below the 290 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.

3 hours ago · source: PEGELONLINE (WSV)

Hofkirchen Danube

153 cm rising 1 centimetres over 72 hours rising 1 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.

54 cm below the 207 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.

3 hours ago · source: PEGELONLINE (WSV)

Every reading we hold on the Danube today

Austrian Danube (Passau–Vienna)

Held by locks · Passau (Danube-km 2226) – Vienna (Danube-km 1929)

92 of the 186 sailings that call at Passau travel this stretch of river.

The gauge that governs this stretch of river is at Kienstock.

Kienstock Danube

109 cm rising 1 centimetres over 72 hours rising 1 cm over 72 hours

492 cm below the 601 cm first high-water mark (speed and wash limits, and the room under the bridges starts to run out).

3 hours ago · source: EuRIS Hydrometeo v3

Every reading we hold on the Danube today

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.

One story from this water

Dreiflüsseeck — Inn, Ilz, and the named Danube

At the Ortsspitze the Ilz arrives from the left, black from Bavarian-Forest peat, and a few metres on the Inn arrives from the right, glacial green. Passau's own tourism office states the Inn brings about five percent more water than the Danube on the annual mean, mostly in the thaw, while from October to April the Danube is usually the larger stream — one reason the combined river keeps the name Donau. Depths are mismatched (Inn shallow, Danube deep), so the Inn rides as an overcurrent and the three colours run side by side for kilometres. This is the single most important hydrologic event on the German Danube. The water under your hull here is three rivers that have not yet agreed to be one.

ongoing · tourism.passau.de · icpdr.org

Every story here says where it was read. A link opens the publisher's own page; a title names a published work we read.

Sailings that call at Passau

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