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Paris → Paris · An Avalon Suite Ship

Avalon Waterways · Paris to Normandy · 8 September15 September 2026

Latest readings: Monday 7 September 2026.

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.

Paris

Day 1 · Tuesday 8 September · France

In port

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.

Vernon - Les Andelys

Day 2 · Wednesday 9 September · France

Lock-controlled

Locks hold this water at a working level, so low water is far less likely to affect this stretch. Other things still can.

Held by locks

Locks hold this level, so low water rarely stops a ship here. High water, maintenance, a closure, a restriction or the cruise line's own decision still can.

Low water does not close this stretch of river; a lock failure or a flood would. High water, maintenance, a closure or a restriction on the locks can still affect a day here, and so can the cruise line's own decision.

What to check on the official page: No water-level product applies to this day. This water is held at a working level by locks, so there is no gauge reading that would change your day.

What can affect a day like this is a lock outage or maintenance closure. That is announced through ELWIS, the official notices-to-skippers channel — in the authority's own words, before anyone else repeats them.

For this day, check the official notices rather than the levels.

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Read the full guide for this port →

Caudebec

Day 3 · Thursday 10 September · France

Lock-controlled

Locks hold this water at a working level, so low water is far less likely to affect this stretch. Other things still can.

Held by locks

Locks hold this level, so low water rarely stops a ship here. High water, maintenance, a closure, a restriction or the cruise line's own decision still can.

Low water does not close this stretch of river; a lock failure or a flood would. High water, maintenance, a closure or a restriction on the locks can still affect a day here, and so can the cruise line's own decision.

What to check on the official page: No water-level product applies to this day. This water is held at a working level by locks, so there is no gauge reading that would change your day.

What can affect a day like this is a lock outage or maintenance closure. That is announced through ELWIS, the official notices-to-skippers channel — in the authority's own words, before anyone else repeats them.

For this day, check the official notices rather than the levels.

Open the official page (opens in a new tab)

Read the full guide for this port →

Caudebec. Excursion To Normandy

Day 4 · Friday 11 September · France

Lock-controlled

Locks hold this water at a working level, so low water is far less likely to affect this stretch. Other things still can.

Held by locks

Locks hold this level, so low water rarely stops a ship here. High water, maintenance, a closure, a restriction or the cruise line's own decision still can.

Low water does not close this stretch of river; a lock failure or a flood would. High water, maintenance, a closure or a restriction on the locks can still affect a day here, and so can the cruise line's own decision.

What to check on the official page: No water-level product applies to this day. This water is held at a working level by locks, so there is no gauge reading that would change your day.

What can affect a day like this is a lock outage or maintenance closure. That is announced through ELWIS, the official notices-to-skippers channel — in the authority's own words, before anyone else repeats them.

For this day, check the official notices rather than the levels.

Open the official page (opens in a new tab)

Read the full guide for this port →

Rouen

Day 5 · Saturday 12 September · France

Lock-controlled

Locks hold this water at a working level, so low water is far less likely to affect this stretch. Other things still can.

Held by locks

Locks hold this level, so low water rarely stops a ship here. High water, maintenance, a closure, a restriction or the cruise line's own decision still can.

Low water does not close this stretch of river; a lock failure or a flood would. High water, maintenance, a closure or a restriction on the locks can still affect a day here, and so can the cruise line's own decision.

What to check on the official page: No water-level product applies to this day. This water is held at a working level by locks, so there is no gauge reading that would change your day.

What can affect a day like this is a lock outage or maintenance closure. That is announced through ELWIS, the official notices-to-skippers channel — in the authority's own words, before anyone else repeats them.

For this day, check the official notices rather than the levels.

Open the official page (opens in a new tab)

Read the full guide for this port →

Conflans

Day 6 · Sunday 13 September · France

Lock-controlled

Locks hold this water at a working level, so low water is far less likely to affect this stretch. Other things still can.

Held by locks

Locks hold this level, so low water rarely stops a ship here. High water, maintenance, a closure, a restriction or the cruise line's own decision still can.

Low water does not close this stretch of river; a lock failure or a flood would. High water, maintenance, a closure or a restriction on the locks can still affect a day here, and so can the cruise line's own decision.

What to check on the official page: No water-level product applies to this day. This water is held at a working level by locks, so there is no gauge reading that would change your day.

What can affect a day like this is a lock outage or maintenance closure. That is announced through ELWIS, the official notices-to-skippers channel — in the authority's own words, before anyone else repeats them.

For this day, check the official notices rather than the levels.

Open the official page (opens in a new tab)

Read the full guide for this port →

Paris

Day 7–8 · Mon 14 – Tue 15 September · France

Lock-controlled

Locks hold this water at a working level, so low water is far less likely to affect this stretch. Other things still can.

Held by locks

Locks hold this level, so low water rarely stops a ship here. High water, maintenance, a closure, a restriction or the cruise line's own decision still can.

Low water does not close this stretch of river; a lock failure or a flood would. High water, maintenance, a closure or a restriction on the locks can still affect a day here, and so can the cruise line's own decision.

What to check on the official page: No water-level product applies to this day. This water is held at a working level by locks, so there is no gauge reading that would change your day.

What can affect a day like this is a lock outage or maintenance closure. That is announced through ELWIS, the official notices-to-skippers channel — in the authority's own words, before anyone else repeats them.

For this day, check the official notices rather than the levels.

Open the official page (opens in a new tab)

Read the full guide for this port →

What the statuses mean — each one is measured against the level we estimate a ship of this class needs

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

This list repeats the map information. It is there for phones, for screen readers and for printing.

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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