A port of call on 254 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.
Held by locks · Passau (Danube-km 2226) – Vienna (Danube-km 1929)
224 of the 254 sailings that call at Vienna 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).
Free-flowing · Vienna (Danube-km 1929) – Budapest (Danube-km 1646)
109 of the 254 sailings that call at Vienna travel this stretch of river.
The gauge that governs this stretch of river is at Budapest.
Budapest Danube
9 cm falling 26 centimetres over 72 hours falling 26 cm over 72 hours
51 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.
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.
The First Viennese Danube Regulation (1870–75) replaced a braided floodplain with a cut main channel and a designated inundation belt. The Wiener Arm had already been called Donaukanal since 1704 and was the city's cargo ditch. The 1972–88 project added the New Danube flood-relief channel and the Donauinsel. Vienna now has four named Danubes because it refused to live with the one it had.
1870–1988 · en.wikipedia.org · icpdr.org · environmentandsociety.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.
And 242 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.
