We hold no map coordinates for this sailing’s ports, so no map is drawn for it — an empty picture of the wrong rivers would say less than nothing. Every port on this sailing, and its water, is listed below.
Vilshofen
Day 1–2 · Mon 5 – Tue 6 October · Germany
The ship is in port on this day. Our record holds no river transit for it, so there is no stretch of river to read.
In port
The ship is in port on this day, and our record holds no river transit for it, so there is no stretch of river to read.
The ship is in port on this day. Our record holds no river transit for it, so there is no stretch of river being read here.
Linz
Day 3 · Wednesday 7 October · Austria
The measured level is below the published low-water reference for this stretch.
76 cm below the published low-water reference
That is how far today's measured level sits below the published low-water reference for this stretch — the waterway authority’s own figure, not ours and not the cruise line's.
| Water level now | 214 cm |
|---|---|
| Published An authority's published low-level mark for a stretch. It is not a requirement for your ship. for this stretch | 290 cm |
| Normal for 7 October | 308 cm |
On the record: For 2015–2025, we checked the eleven days around this date. Pfelling’s lowest daily average was 244 cm, in 2023. Today’s reading is 214. That is below every one of the 121 readings in that window.
Water levels are measured at the Pfelling gauge – German federal waterways gauge service (PEGELONLINE).
Your call here is 30 days away — beyond the daily forecast
What to check on the official page: Nothing published today can tell you the level on 7 October. Germany's federal hydrology institute. It publishes the official water-level forecasts and outlooks.'s daily forecast only reaches fourteen days ahead. Your call here is 30 days away. We have picked the product that does reach it, so you do not have to.
That product is BfG's six-week outlook. It is not a daily prediction. It shows likely ranges for each week. Each range is where that week's level is expected to fall, with the odds attached. The ranges come from many past-weather what-if runs, not from a single-line prediction.
The button below opens Pfelling's own sheet directly. Find the week beginning 5 October. Then read which band it sits in against the 290 cm line on this page.
From 23 September, this port will be fourteen days away. The daily forecast will then reach your date, and this block will switch itself over to it.
Open the six-week outlook for Pfelling (PDF, German) (opens in a new tab)WLSN — Water level a ship of this class needs (290 cm)
BfG’s own 6-week outlook: one block for each whole published week · the tops of 4 weeks' ranges run past the top of this frame · BfG issued this forecast: 2026-09-03 · Bundesanstalt für Gewässerkunde (BfG)
Weissenkirchen
Day 4 · Thursday 8 October · Austria
This is a real reading. There is nothing published to measure it against.
95 cm measured
Nothing is published for this stretch to measure the reading against.
| Water level now | 95 cm |
|---|---|
| Normal for 8 October | 235 cm |
Water levels are measured at the Kienstock gauge – Observation from Austria's government-owned waterway company for the Danube., provided through The European River Information Services portal. It republishes official river data from member countries..
What to check on the official page: No German federal product covers the Austrian Danube. Austria's own navigation service publishes a Kienstock page in English. Its graph also shows a forward series.
On that graph the measured line is labelled The German word on the Austrian graph for the measured water level.. The forward one is labelled The German word on the Austrian graph for the forward-looking values.. The forward values run several days ahead. Austria notes that Kienstock forecasts are meant for low-water situations.
Then stop looking for a target level, because there is not one. Austria publishes a An Austrian low-water reference level. It gives no depth a ship can use. figure for Kienstock but no A depth an authority aims to keep available for ships along a stretch. figure to pair with it. A level without a depth cannot be turned into a target for your ship, and we will not invent one.
What you can read is the direction of change. You also know that locks keep this stretch full anyway.
Open the official Kienstock page (English) (opens in a new tab)EuRIS official water-level prediction for Kienstock, from originator viadonau · Waterlogged retrieved this prediction: 7 Sep 2026, 18:16 CEST · API/Service Hydrometeo v3 incorporated from EuRIS (eurisportal.eu) · Quelle: viadonau
Vienna
Day 5 · Friday 9 October · Austria
This is a real reading. There is nothing published to measure it against.
95 cm measured
Nothing is published for this stretch to measure the reading against.
| Water level now | 95 cm |
|---|---|
| Normal for 9 October | 234 cm |
Water levels are measured at the Kienstock gauge – Observation from Austria's government-owned waterway company for the Danube., provided through The European River Information Services portal. It republishes official river data from member countries..
What to check on the official page: No German federal product covers the Austrian Danube. Austria's own navigation service publishes a Kienstock page in English. Its graph also shows a forward series.
On that graph the measured line is labelled The German word on the Austrian graph for the measured water level.. The forward one is labelled The German word on the Austrian graph for the forward-looking values.. The forward values run several days ahead. Austria notes that Kienstock forecasts are meant for low-water situations.
Then stop looking for a target level, because there is not one. Austria publishes a An Austrian low-water reference level. It gives no depth a ship can use. figure for Kienstock but no A depth an authority aims to keep available for ships along a stretch. figure to pair with it. A level without a depth cannot be turned into a target for your ship, and we will not invent one.
What you can read is the direction of change. You also know that locks keep this stretch full anyway.
Open the official Kienstock page (English) (opens in a new tab)EuRIS official water-level prediction for Kienstock, from originator viadonau · Waterlogged retrieved this prediction: 7 Sep 2026, 18:16 CEST · API/Service Hydrometeo v3 incorporated from EuRIS (eurisportal.eu) · Quelle: viadonau
Bratislava
Day 6 · Saturday 10 October · Slovakia
The measured level is under half of Waterlogged's reference line for a ship of this class.
50 cm below Waterlogged’s estimated level
That is how far today's measured level sits below Waterlogged’s estimated level for this stretch — read from the years of record, not a figure from the cruise line.
| Water level now | 10 cm |
|---|---|
| Waterlogged’s Waterlogged's estimated level for this stretch, set from the measured record rather than from any ship's draught. In 35 years of readings, every day of the cruise season below it fell inside a disruption somebody documented at the time. It is a gauge level, not a depth under a ship, and no authority or cruise line publishes it. | 60 cm |
| Normal for 10 October | 181 cm |
On the record: For 1991–2025, we checked the eleven days around this date. Budapest’s lowest daily average was 57 cm, in 2018. Today’s reading is 10. That is below every one of the 385 readings in that window.
Water levels are measured at the Budapest gauge – Observation from Hungary's national water authority. Its forecasting service publishes the Budapest table. / General Directorate of Water Management, provided through The European River Information Services portal. It republishes official river data from member countries..
What to check on the official page: The button below opens the official water-level forecast for this stretch — a simple table, about six days ahead. It shows the level in centimetres at the Budapest gauge, the same way this page shows it, so the numbers line up directly.
Don't be surprised by a negative number: the gauge's zero point sits above the riverbed, so readings below zero are real measurements, not errors.
As you read the forecast, compare each day's number with the Waterlogged's estimated level for this stretch, set from the measured record rather than from any ship's draught. In 35 years of readings, every day of the cruise season below it fell inside a disruption somebody documented at the time. It is a gauge level, not a depth under a ship, and no authority or cruise line publishes it. line — our estimated level for this stretch, set from 35 years of records: every cruise-season day below it fell within a documented disruption. That estimate is ours alone: no cruise line or authority publishes an official figure here.
Open the official Budapest forecast (English) (opens in a new tab)WLSN — Water level a ship of this class needs (60 cm)
EuRIS official water-level prediction for Budapest, from originator Országos Vízügyi Főigazgatóság (OVF) · Waterlogged retrieved this prediction: 7 Sep 2026, 18:16 CEST · API/Service Hydrometeo v3 incorporated from EuRIS (eurisportal.eu) · Országos Vízügyi Főigazgatóság (OVF) / General Directorate of Water Management
Budapest
Day 7–8 · Sun 11 – Mon 12 October · Hungary
The measured level is under half of Waterlogged's reference line for a ship of this class.
50 cm below Waterlogged’s estimated level
That is how far today's measured level sits below Waterlogged’s estimated level for this stretch — read from the years of record, not a figure from the cruise line.
| Water level now | 10 cm |
|---|---|
| Waterlogged’s Waterlogged's estimated level for this stretch, set from the measured record rather than from any ship's draught. In 35 years of readings, every day of the cruise season below it fell inside a disruption somebody documented at the time. It is a gauge level, not a depth under a ship, and no authority or cruise line publishes it. | 60 cm |
| Normal for 11 October | 178 cm |
On the record: For 1991–2025, we checked the eleven days around this date. Budapest’s lowest daily average was 50 cm, in 2018. Today’s reading is 10. That is below every one of the 385 readings in that window.
Water levels are measured at the Budapest gauge – Observation from Hungary's national water authority. Its forecasting service publishes the Budapest table. / General Directorate of Water Management, provided through The European River Information Services portal. It republishes official river data from member countries..
What to check on the official page: The button below opens the official water-level forecast for this stretch — a simple table, about six days ahead. It shows the level in centimetres at the Budapest gauge, the same way this page shows it, so the numbers line up directly.
Don't be surprised by a negative number: the gauge's zero point sits above the riverbed, so readings below zero are real measurements, not errors.
As you read the forecast, compare each day's number with the Waterlogged's estimated level for this stretch, set from the measured record rather than from any ship's draught. In 35 years of readings, every day of the cruise season below it fell inside a disruption somebody documented at the time. It is a gauge level, not a depth under a ship, and no authority or cruise line publishes it. line — our estimated level for this stretch, set from 35 years of records: every cruise-season day below it fell within a documented disruption. That estimate is ours alone: no cruise line or authority publishes an official figure here.
Open the official Budapest forecast (English) (opens in a new tab)WLSN — Water level a ship of this class needs (60 cm)
EuRIS official water-level prediction for Budapest, from originator Országos Vízügyi Főigazgatóság (OVF) · Waterlogged retrieved this prediction: 7 Sep 2026, 18:16 CEST · API/Service Hydrometeo v3 incorporated from EuRIS (eurisportal.eu) · Országos Vízügyi Főigazgatóság (OVF) / General Directorate of Water Management
Mohács
Day 9 · Tuesday 13 October · Hungary
The measured level is under half of Waterlogged's reference line for a ship of this class.
50 cm below Waterlogged’s estimated level
That is how far today's measured level sits below Waterlogged’s estimated level for this stretch — read from the years of record, not a figure from the cruise line.
| Water level now | 10 cm |
|---|---|
| Waterlogged’s Waterlogged's estimated level for this stretch, set from the measured record rather than from any ship's draught. In 35 years of readings, every day of the cruise season below it fell inside a disruption somebody documented at the time. It is a gauge level, not a depth under a ship, and no authority or cruise line publishes it. | 60 cm |
| Normal for 13 October | 176 cm |
On the record: For 1991–2025, we checked the eleven days around this date. Budapest’s lowest daily average was 42 cm, in 2018. Today’s reading is 10. That is below every one of the 385 readings in that window.
Water levels are measured at the Budapest gauge – Observation from Hungary's national water authority. Its forecasting service publishes the Budapest table. / General Directorate of Water Management, provided through The European River Information Services portal. It republishes official river data from member countries..
What to check on the official page: The button below opens the official water-level forecast for this stretch — a simple table, about six days ahead. It shows the level in centimetres at the Budapest gauge, the same way this page shows it, so the numbers line up directly.
Don't be surprised by a negative number: the gauge's zero point sits above the riverbed, so readings below zero are real measurements, not errors.
As you read the forecast, compare each day's number with the Waterlogged's estimated level for this stretch, set from the measured record rather than from any ship's draught. In 35 years of readings, every day of the cruise season below it fell inside a disruption somebody documented at the time. It is a gauge level, not a depth under a ship, and no authority or cruise line publishes it. line — our estimated level for this stretch, set from 35 years of records: every cruise-season day below it fell within a documented disruption. That estimate is ours alone: no cruise line or authority publishes an official figure here.
Open the official Budapest forecast (English) (opens in a new tab)WLSN — Water level a ship of this class needs (60 cm)
EuRIS official water-level prediction for Budapest, from originator Országos Vízügyi Főigazgatóság (OVF) · Waterlogged retrieved this prediction: 7 Sep 2026, 18:16 CEST · API/Service Hydrometeo v3 incorporated from EuRIS (eurisportal.eu) · Országos Vízügyi Főigazgatóság (OVF) / General Directorate of Water Management
Vukovar
Day 10 · Wednesday 14 October · Croatia
We watch no gauge on this stretch of river. There is no reading for this day and no line to measure one against.
No gauge on this stretch
The ship crosses this stretch on this day, and we watch no gauge on it. So there is no reading for you here and no line to measure one against.
The ship crosses this stretch on this day — Lower Danube · Croatia. We watch no gauge on it, so there is no reading here and no line to measure one against.
Belgrade
Day 11 · Thursday 15 October · Serbia
We watch no gauge on this stretch of river. There is no reading for this day and no line to measure one against.
No gauge on this stretch
The ship crosses this stretch on this day, and we watch no gauge on it. So there is no reading for you here and no line to measure one against.
The ship crosses this stretch on this day — Lower Danube · Serbia. We watch no gauge on it, so there is no reading here and no line to measure one against.
Iron Gates
Day 12 · Friday 16 October
We watch no gauge on this stretch of river. There is no reading for this day and no line to measure one against.
No gauge on this stretch
The ship crosses this stretch on this day, and we watch no gauge on it. So there is no reading for you here and no line to measure one against.
The ship crosses this stretch on this day — Lower Danube. We watch no gauge on it, so there is no reading here and no line to measure one against.
Vidin
Day 13 · Saturday 17 October · Bulgaria
The measured level is under half of Waterlogged's reference line for a ship of this class.
167 cm below the published low-water reference
That is how far today's measured level sits below the published low-water reference for this stretch — the waterway authority’s own figure, not ours and not the cruise line's.
| Water level now | -72 cm |
|---|---|
| Published An authority's published low-level mark for a stretch. It is not a requirement for your ship. for this stretch | 95 cm |
Water levels are measured at the Novo Selo gauge – Observation from Bulgaria's Executive Agency for Exploration and Maintenance of the Danube River, at Ruse. It surveys and maintains the Bulgarian Danube and publishes its gauge readings., the Bulgarian Danube authority, provided through The European River Information Services portal. It republishes official river data from member countries..
What to check on the official page: Nobody publishes a forecast for this gauge. The Bulgarian Danube agency's forward table covers Oryahovo, Nikopol, Svishtov, Ruse and Silistra, and Novo Selo is not one of them. What the agency does publish is the measured level, daily, for twenty stations along the Bulgarian bank.
Find the row for Novo Selo. The page is in Bulgarian, and it gives the level, the change over the last twenty-four hours and the water temperature.
Don't be surprised by a minus sign. Each gauge's zero is a fixed mark set long ago, not the riverbed, and on this stretch the summer river sits below it. A reading of −124 cm is a real measurement, not an error.
Compare each day's number with the An authority's published low-level mark for a stretch. It is not a requirement for your ship. for this stretch, shown above. That figure is the Danube Commission's low navigable water level, published by the same agency that publishes the reading — it is theirs, not ours, and it is not a requirement set by your cruise line.
Open the official Novo Selo readings (Bulgarian) (opens in a new tab)Rousse
Day 14 · Sunday 18 October · Bulgaria
The measured level is under half of Waterlogged's reference line for a ship of this class.
160 cm below the published low-water reference
That is how far today's measured level sits below the published low-water reference for this stretch — the waterway authority’s own figure, not ours and not the cruise line's.
| Water level now | -108 cm |
|---|---|
| Published An authority's published low-level mark for a stretch. It is not a requirement for your ship. for this stretch | 52 cm |
Water levels are measured at the Ruse gauge – Observation from Bulgaria's Executive Agency for Exploration and Maintenance of the Danube River, at Ruse. It surveys and maintains the Bulgarian Danube and publishes its gauge readings., the Bulgarian Danube authority, provided through The European River Information Services portal. It republishes official river data from member countries..
What to check on the official page: No German or Austrian product reaches this stretch. The Bulgarian Danube agency publishes its own forward table, and it is the only one there is here: a maximum, a forecast and a minimum for each of about six days.
Find the row for Ruse. The page is in Bulgarian, and the station names are the same ones this page uses.
Don't be surprised by a minus sign. Each gauge's zero is a fixed mark set long ago, not the riverbed, and on this stretch the summer river sits below it. A reading of −124 cm is a real measurement, not an error.
Compare each day's number with the An authority's published low-level mark for a stretch. It is not a requirement for your ship. for this stretch, shown above. That figure is the Danube Commission's low navigable water level, published by the same agency that publishes the reading — it is theirs, not ours, and it is not a requirement set by your cruise line.
Open the official Ruse forecast (Bulgarian) (opens in a new tab)Giurgiu
Day 15 · Monday 19 October · Romania
The measured level is under half of Waterlogged's reference line for a ship of this class.
160 cm below the published low-water reference
That is how far today's measured level sits below the published low-water reference for this stretch — the waterway authority’s own figure, not ours and not the cruise line's.
| Water level now | -108 cm |
|---|---|
| Published An authority's published low-level mark for a stretch. It is not a requirement for your ship. for this stretch | 52 cm |
Water levels are measured at the Ruse gauge – Observation from Bulgaria's Executive Agency for Exploration and Maintenance of the Danube River, at Ruse. It surveys and maintains the Bulgarian Danube and publishes its gauge readings., the Bulgarian Danube authority, provided through The European River Information Services portal. It republishes official river data from member countries..
What to check on the official page: No German or Austrian product reaches this stretch. The Bulgarian Danube agency publishes its own forward table, and it is the only one there is here: a maximum, a forecast and a minimum for each of about six days.
Find the row for Ruse. The page is in Bulgarian, and the station names are the same ones this page uses.
Don't be surprised by a minus sign. Each gauge's zero is a fixed mark set long ago, not the riverbed, and on this stretch the summer river sits below it. A reading of −124 cm is a real measurement, not an error.
Compare each day's number with the An authority's published low-level mark for a stretch. It is not a requirement for your ship. for this stretch, shown above. That figure is the Danube Commission's low navigable water level, published by the same agency that publishes the reading — it is theirs, not ours, and it is not a requirement set by your cruise line.
Open the official Ruse forecast (Bulgarian) (opens in a new tab)What the statuses mean — each one is measured against the level we estimate a ship of this class needs
- Far below the lineThe measured level is under half of Waterlogged's reference line for a ship of this class.
- Below the lineThe measured level is below Waterlogged's reference line for a ship of this class.
- Above the lineThe measured level is at or above Waterlogged's reference line for a ship of this class.
- Lock-controlledLocks hold this water at a working level, so low water is far less likely to affect this stretch. Other things still can.
- No line publishedThis is a real reading. There is nothing published to measure it against.
- No reading yetWe watch a gauge on this stretch. No current reading is on file for it.
- No gauge on this stretchWe watch no gauge on this stretch of river. There is no reading for this day and no line to measure one against.
- In portThe ship is in port on this day. Our record holds no river transit for it, so there is no stretch of river to read.
- Not sailingThe ship does not sail on this day. Your itinerary spends it on land, so no river level applies to it.
The small white boards mark A riverside station that measures the water level in centimetres against a fixed zero point. stations — the places where a reading is physically taken. Each is drawn at its own town's coordinate, which can sit close to the port it serves. Each stretch is coloured by the worst port on it. A gauge level is not the depth of the The navigable channel where ships are meant to pass., not the room under your ship's keel, and not your ship's How deep a ship sits in the water. That depth sets how much water it needs underneath..
Every port, in the order you reach it
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Cities are drawn at their true latitude and longitude. The river line is a simplified course, not a navigation chart. Course geometry: Natural Earth (public domain) and © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0.
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