Gate 1 Travel · Monarch Baroness
Levels relevant to this sailing
Departing Thursday 24 September 2026.
This page does not say whether your cruise will run. It shows what the rivers on your route are reading now, how far that sits from the water a ship of this size needs, which of your days are level-sensitive at all, and where to read the authority's and the operator's own pages.
Your itinerary, by kind of water
- Day 1 Depart for Romania In port
- Day 2 Bucharest In port
- Day 3 Bucharest In port
- Day 4 Giurgiu Free-flowing Lower Danube · Ruse–Giurgiu stretch
- Day 5 Rousse Free-flowing Lower Danube · Ruse–Giurgiu stretch
- Day 6 Vidin Free-flowing Lower Danube · Novo Selo–Vidin stretch
- Day 7 Iron Gates Notice-governed Lower Danube
- Day 8 Belgrade Notice-governed Lower Danube
- Day 9 Vukovar Notice-governed Lower Danube
- Day 10 Budapest Free-flowing Lower Danube · Vienna–Budapest Danube
- Day 11 Budapest In port
- Day 12 Budapest In port
- Day 13 Depart Hungary In port
4 of 13 days on this itinerary sit on free-flowing water, where the level is the constraint. 0 are held by locks, and 6 are alongside.
These chips describe the kind of water each day sits on — geography, not a forecast and not a judgment about your sailing. A day held by locks does not care about a drought upstream; a free-flowing day is where the level is the constraint.
The corridors this itinerary crosses
Waterlogged hull clear-line for Monarch Baroness, using a draught of 1.60 m. A Waterlogged clear-line is our own arithmetic: the gauge reading at which the published reference depth, minus the ship's draught and a fixed safety allowance, still leaves a comfortable margin. It is not an operator's decision rule and no cruise line uses it.
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Lower Danube
Notice-governedGoverned by the waterway authority's notices. Lock availability, dredging, agreed channel depths and temporary restrictions decide this stretch, not a drought reading.
Budapest (Danube-km 1646) – Iron Gates – Giurgiu/Rousse – the delta
Novo Selo Danube
-72 cm falling 10 centimetres over 72 hours falling 10 cm over 72 hours
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.
Lom Danube
-21 cm falling 7 centimetres over 72 hours falling 7 cm over 72 hours
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.
Oryahovo Danube
-104 cm falling 9 centimetres over 72 hours falling 9 cm over 72 hours
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.
Nikopol Danube
-12 cm falling 5 centimetres over 72 hours falling 5 cm over 72 hours
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.
Svishtov Danube
-59 cm falling 3 centimetres over 72 hours falling 3 cm over 72 hours
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.
Ruse Danube
-108 cm falling 4 centimetres over 72 hours falling 4 cm over 72 hours
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.
Silistra Danube
-97 cm falling 2 centimetres over 72 hours falling 2 cm over 72 hours
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.
The shallow crossings migrate, so the published fairway soundings and notices are closer to the constraint than any single gauge.
Official sources and forecasts for Lower Danube
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APPD — Bulgarian Danube levels, soundings and restrictions
Daily Bulgarian Danube levels and the current fairway soundings at the shallow crossings.
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EuRIS — European River Information Services portal
The European portal that distributes the current Budapest, Kienstock and Bulgarian lower-Danube readings Waterlogged shows, naming OVF, viadonau and ИАППД as the originators.
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APPD — Bulgarian Danube levels, soundings and restrictions
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Ruse–Giurgiu stretch
Free-flowingThe river runs free here, so the level is the constraint: this is where a drought actually binds a hull.
Danube-km 524.95 – 435.55 (Romanian/Bulgarian border run)
Ruse Danube
-108 cm falling 4 centimetres over 72 hours falling 4 cm over 72 hours
No clear-line available. This gauge has no maintained-depth reference pair on file, so there is no honest level to publish. We would rather say so than substitute a generic one.
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Novo Selo–Vidin stretch
Free-flowingThe river runs free here, so the level is the constraint: this is where a drought actually binds a hull.
Danube-km 833.6 – 788.45 (Romanian/Bulgarian border run)
Novo Selo Danube
-72 cm falling 10 centimetres over 72 hours falling 10 cm over 72 hours
No clear-line available. This gauge has no maintained-depth reference pair on file, so there is no honest level to publish. We would rather say so than substitute a generic one.
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Vienna–Budapest Danube
Free-flowingThe river runs free here, so the level is the constraint: this is where a drought actually binds a hull.
Vienna (Danube-km 1929) – Budapest (Danube-km 1646)
Budapest Danube
9 cm falling 27 centimetres over 72 hours falling 27 cm over 72 hours
91 cm below the 100 cm calibrated judgment line. Waterlogged hull clear-line for Monarch Baroness, using a draught of 1.60 m. A hand-set band, not a measured fairway depth and not worked out from any ship's draught. It is our judgment about this stretch and it is labelled as one.
Official sources and forecasts for Vienna–Budapest Danube
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hydroinfo.hu — Hungarian hydrological service (official Danube levels and notices)
Hungary's official hydrological pages for the Danube, including Budapest.
Waterlogged does not reproduce or interpret the values on this page. Waterlogged has received permission from Országos Vízügyi Főigazgatóság (OVF) / General Directorate of Water Management to publish water-level data provided the content accurately reflects reality and the source is credited. This page itself stays a link: we publish the Budapest history we hold under that permission, not a copy of the publisher's own pages.
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vizugy.hu — Hungarian water directorate live gauge pages
The Hungarian directorate's own live level pages, including the Budapest gauge.
Waterlogged does not reproduce or interpret the values on this page. Waterlogged has received permission from Országos Vízügyi Főigazgatóság (OVF) / General Directorate of Water Management to publish water-level data provided the content accurately reflects reality and the source is credited. The Budapest readings we show travel through EuRIS with OVF's credit beside them; nothing is copied from these pages.
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EuRIS — European River Information Services portal
The European portal that distributes the current Budapest, Kienstock and Bulgarian lower-Danube readings Waterlogged shows, naming OVF, viadonau and ИАППД as the originators.
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hydroinfo.hu — Hungarian hydrological service (official Danube levels and notices)
History on this date
This is measured history, not a forecast and not an estimate of disruption probability.
Novoselo
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.
Lom
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.
Oryahovo
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.
Nikopol
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.
Svishtov
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.
Ruse
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.
Silistra
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.
Ruse
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.
Novoselo
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.
Budapest
The five lowest years in this archive around this calendar date
Archive span: 1992 to 2022, in this archive · 5 eligible years.
| Year | Lowest in the window | On | Level at the end of the window | Measured 72-hour change |
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| 2003 | 54 cm | 2003-08-29 | 126 cm | -64 cm |
| 2018 | 74 cm | 2018-08-24 | 97 cm | -15 cm |
| 2015 | 81 cm | 2015-09-03 | 88 cm | -19 cm |
| 1992 | 97 cm | 1992-09-03 | 121 cm | -14 cm |
| 2022 | 102 cm | 2022-09-11 | 234 cm | 72 cm |
The window is the 14 days either side of today's calendar date. Years are ranked by their lowest measured daily mean inside it.
Measured water-level data from Országos Vízügyi Főigazgatóság (OVF) / General Directorate of Water Management, published with its permission. Daily values are arithmetic means of each day's observations; where a figure here is worked out from them rather than copied, the input data originate from the General Directorate of Water Management.
- Measured daily means only; missing dates are omitted and gaps are never interpolated.
- This panel describes historical measurements and fitted seasonality, not a forecast.
- Day-of-year medians use only the licensed measurements available for this gauge.
- The current-year series ends at no date in the window; later licensed measurements are unavailable.
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 20:29 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.
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An alert here is a measured centimetre crossing on a named gauge — never a score, a probability or a changed opinion.
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