WaterloggedRiver Cruise Watch

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A Uniworld Super Ship · European Jewels

Uniworld Boutique River Cruises · departs Sunday 20 September 2026 · Amsterdam → Budapest · 15 days

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Uniworld Boutique River Cruises has not published which ship sails this departure. Every water level below is measured against a line we work out for the ship class named above, using its design How deep a ship sits in the water. That depth sets how much water it needs underneath. of 1.60 m. That is our own assumption, not a figure from the cruise line. If Uniworld Boutique River Cruises names a ship that sits deeper in the water, its line would be higher than the one drawn here.

Latest readings: Sunday 6 September 2026. Water levels change daily. Check again closer to your departure.

The Daily River Watch

Sunday 6 September 2026

River levels this morning — not the levels expected on your sailing dates

Rain check: about 51 mm of rain is forecast above Cologne over fourteen days. Kaub gets almost none. The forecast reaches 19 September. It does not change any status on this page.

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

  • Far below the line The measured level is under half of Waterlogged's reference line for a ship of this class.
  • Below the line The measured level is below Waterlogged's reference line for a ship of this class. It is not yet under half that level.
  • Above the line The measured level is at or above Waterlogged's reference line for a ship of this class.
  • Lock-controlled Locks hold the level on this stretch, so low water rarely stops a ship here. High water, maintenance, closures, restrictions on the locks and the cruise line's own decision can still affect a day.
  • No line published The reading is real. Nobody publishes a level for this stretch to measure it against.
    No reading yet We include this location on your daily schedule but there is no data available.
  • No gauge on this stretch We watch no gauge on this stretch of river. There is no reading for the day and no line to measure one against. We are not telling you the water is fine, and we are not telling you anything holds it at a working level — those are things we have not established here.
  • 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. That is what we hold, not a claim about where the ship goes.
  • Not sailing The ship does not sail on this day. Your itinerary spends it on land, so there is no river level to read and no low-water question to answer.

A gauge level is not the depth of the navigable channel, not the room under your ship's keel, and not your ship's draft. The rain forecast further down uses one more status of its own, temporarily unavailable, when that feed is missing or out of date.

The official forward outlook

Waterlogged does not provide its own independent future river depth forecast. We show today's gauge reading and compare them with our own reference lines and other historic data. Where Waterlogged has received licenses, it includes river forecasts and clearly identifies the sources where they are from. Waterlogged provides direct links to the gauge forecasts from national providers. BfG has given us permission to show their six week forecasts.

Your daily sailing schedule

Below are the ports you travel to and the depth of the water, as of today's date, and how much water is needed for your ship to sail. A graph shows the median or normal river depth.

Two words will help. A A riverside station that measures the water level in centimetres against a fixed zero point. is a riverside station that measures water level. Your ship's How deep a ship sits in the water. That depth sets how much water it needs underneath. is how deep it sits in the water. This affects how much water it needs below the hull.

Day1

Amsterdam

Sunday 20 September · Netherlands

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.

The ship is in port on this day.

Full details

Our record holds no river transit for this day, so there is no stretch of river being read for it and no water level that applies to it.

Where the ship isin port
River transit on recordnone for this day
Level readingnone applies — no stretch of river is being read

This says what our record holds, not what the ship does. We are not telling you it stays alongside, and we have not worked out whether locks hold any water near this city, so we do not say either. On the days this route is on the river, the readings above and below say so.

Day2

Cologne

Monday 21 September · Germany

Below the line

The measured level is below the published low-water reference for this stretch.

Scale 0–250 cm

53 cm below Waterlogged’s reference line

That is how far today's measured level sits below the line we estimate a ship of this class needs. The level it is measured against is our own estimate, not a figure from the cruise line.

Water level now (6 September) 86 cm
Published An authority's published low-level mark for a stretch. It is not a requirement for your ship. for this stretch 139 cm
Normal for 21 September (median for 2015–2026) 194 cm

Falling — the river level fell 21 cm in the last three days.

On the record: For 2015–2025, we checked the eleven days around this date. Koeln’s lowest daily average was 105 cm, in 2018. Today’s reading is 86. That is below every one of the 121 readings in that window.

Water levels are measured at the Köln gauge – German federal waterways gauge service (PEGELONLINE).
Published low-water reference — the waterway authority's own figure for this stretch, not a requirement set by your cruise line.

YOUR CRUISE3000WLSNWLSN1 Aug1 Sep1 Oct1 Nov1 Dec
  • Current level
  • Past average for this date
  • WLSN — Published An authority's published low-level mark for a stretch. It is not a requirement for your ship. for this stretch (139 cm)
  • Measured level below that line
  • BfG’s own 14-day forecast: their low-to-high range and middle line · BfG issued this forecast: 2026-09-05 GMT+1 · Bundesanstalt für Gewässerkunde (BfG)
  • BfG’s own 6-week outlook: one block for each whole published week · BfG issued this forecast: 2026-09-03 · Bundesanstalt für Gewässerkunde (BfG)

Current and normal water levels. The solid blue line shows the current measured water level. The dashed grey line is the historic average of the water level from July 29th until December 1st. The bold dashed line labelled WLSN is the water level a ship of this class needs — Waterlogged's reference line for a ship of this class: 139 cm. It is a gauge level, not a depth under the hull. Today's water sits 116 cm below the normal water level for this date. During your shaded cruise dates the normal water level is 194 cm on 20 September and 186 cm on 4 October. The water level at this location historically keeps rising over the next three months.

The official forecast for this gauge

BfG's 14-day water-level forecast for Köln BfG issued this forecast: 2026-09-05 GMT+1
BfG's 14-day water-level forecast for Köln

Published by Bundesanstalt für Gewässerkunde (BfG). BfG issued this forecast: 2026-09-05 GMT+1.

15050Sun 6 SepFri 18 Sep
BfG's own daily figures for Köln, in cm at the gauge.
DayLowerMiddleUpper
Sun 6 Sep818386
Mon 7 Sep788184
Tue 8 Sep747883
Wed 9 Sep657075
Thu 10 Sep586673
Fri 11 Sep566677
Sat 12 Sep587287
Sun 13 Sep6383107
Mon 14 Sep6890118
Tue 15 Sep6893125
Wed 16 Sep6797136
Thu 17 Sep6698141
Fri 18 Sep6396141

BfG publishes a low and a high figure for every day, not one certain number. Read the whole range.

The three columns are BfG's own 10th, 50th and 90th percentiles, in centimetres at the gauge. Nothing between them is filled in by us.

BfG does not publish values above 830 centimetres. Where a figure would be higher, their file says so and this table reads "above 830".

BfG's own file for Köln (opens in a new tab)

BfG's 6-week outlook for Köln BfG issued this forecast: 2026-09-03
BfG's 6-week outlook for Köln

Published by Bundesanstalt für Gewässerkunde (BfG). BfG issued this forecast: 2026-09-03.

Each line is one whole week, which is how BfG publishes this product. It gives no figure for any single day, and neither do we.

BfG's own weekly figures for Köln, in cm at the gauge.
WeekLowerMiddleUpper
3–9 September89100111
10–16 September5073102
17–23 September5096179
24–30 September50103211
1–7 October50115235
8–14 October50124252

The three columns are BfG's own 5th, 50th and 95th percentiles from their weather-driven runs, in centimetres at the gauge.

BfG's own file for Köln (opens in a new tab)

Forecast water levels are from BfG. Waterlogged only reports historical and current data.

Every figure above is a water level at the gauge, in centimetres. It is not the depth of water under a ship and it is not a ship's draft.

Day3

Rüdesheim

Tuesday 22 September · Germany

Far below the line

The measured level is under half of Waterlogged's reference line for a ship of this class.

Scale 0–200 cm

62 cm below Waterlogged’s reference line

That is how far today's measured level sits below the line we estimate a ship of this class needs. The level it is measured against is our own estimate, not a figure from the cruise line.

Water level now (6 September) 31 cm
How we calculate ship needWaterlogged estimates that a river needs to be 2.05m in depth to be navigable by river cruises. A river cruise ship has a draft of approximately 1.60m and we add an additional 0.45m above this. This number is not from official cruise line reports. Ships with smaller drafts or special permission may be able to sail in less water. The figure on the page beside this note is a gauge level, and a gauge level is the height of the water at one measuring station, read from that station's own zero. It is not the depth of the navigable channel, it is not the room left under a ship's keel, and it is not a ship's draft. Our line is a level we compare today's reading with. It is not a depth anybody has measured under your ship. 93 cm
Normal for 22 September (median for 2015–2026) 138 cm

Falling — the river level fell 22 cm in the last three days.

On the record: For 2015–2025, we checked the eleven days around this date. Kaub’s lowest daily average was 61 cm, in 2018. Today’s reading is 31. That is below every one of the 121 readings in that window.

Water levels are measured at the Kaub gauge – German federal waterways gauge service (PEGELONLINE).

YOUR CRUISE2000WLSNWLSN1 Aug1 Sep1 Oct1 Nov1 Dec
  • Current level
  • Past average for this date
  • WLSNHow we calculate ship needWaterlogged estimates that a river needs to be 2.05m in depth to be navigable by river cruises. A river cruise ship has a draft of approximately 1.60m and we add an additional 0.45m above this. This number is not from official cruise line reports. Ships with smaller drafts or special permission may be able to sail in less water. The figure on the page beside this note is a gauge level, and a gauge level is the height of the water at one measuring station, read from that station's own zero. It is not the depth of the navigable channel, it is not the room left under a ship's keel, and it is not a ship's draft. Our line is a level we compare today's reading with. It is not a depth anybody has measured under your ship. (93 cm)
  • Measured level below that line
  • BfG’s own 14-day forecast: their low-to-high range and middle line · BfG issued this forecast: 2026-09-05 GMT+1 · Bundesanstalt für Gewässerkunde (BfG)
  • BfG’s own 6-week outlook: one block for each whole published week · 3 of 4 published weeks reach beyond the scale of this frame and are not drawn · BfG issued this forecast: 2026-09-03 · Bundesanstalt für Gewässerkunde (BfG)

Current and normal water levels. The solid blue line shows the current measured water level. The dashed grey line is the historic average of the water level from July 29th until December 1st. The bold dashed line labelled WLSN is the water level a ship of this class needs — Waterlogged's reference line for a ship of this class: 93 cm. It is a gauge level, not a depth under the hull. Today's water sits 114 cm below the normal water level for this date. During your shaded cruise dates the normal water level is 139 cm on 20 September and 129 cm on 4 October. The water level at this location historically keeps rising over the next three months.

The official forecast for this gauge

BfG's 14-day water-level forecast for Kaub BfG issued this forecast: 2026-09-05 GMT+1
BfG's 14-day water-level forecast for Kaub

Published by Bundesanstalt für Gewässerkunde (BfG). BfG issued this forecast: 2026-09-05 GMT+1.

1000Sun 6 SepFri 18 Sep
BfG's own daily figures for Kaub, in cm at the gauge.
DayLowerMiddleUpper
Sun 6 Sep323437
Mon 7 Sep283235
Tue 8 Sep172227
Wed 9 Sep111622
Thu 10 Sep81624
Fri 11 Sep102235
Sat 12 Sep163252
Sun 13 Sep204065
Mon 14 Sep224573
Tue 15 Sep224986
Wed 16 Sep195093
Thu 17 Sep164894
Fri 18 Sep134695

BfG publishes a low and a high figure for every day, not one certain number. Read the whole range.

The three columns are BfG's own 10th, 50th and 90th percentiles, in centimetres at the gauge. Nothing between them is filled in by us.

BfG does not publish values above 640 centimetres. Where a figure would be higher, their file says so and this table reads "above 640".

BfG's own file for Kaub (opens in a new tab)

BfG's 6-week outlook for Kaub BfG issued this forecast: 2026-09-03
BfG's 6-week outlook for Kaub

Published by Bundesanstalt für Gewässerkunde (BfG). BfG issued this forecast: 2026-09-03.

Each line is one whole week, which is how BfG publishes this product. It gives no figure for any single day, and neither do we.

BfG's own weekly figures for Kaub, in cm at the gauge.
WeekLowerMiddleUpper
3–9 September303744
10–16 September72955
17–23 September-651135
24–30 September-957159
1–7 October-367173
8–14 October674170

The three columns are BfG's own 5th, 50th and 95th percentiles from their weather-driven runs, in centimetres at the gauge.

BfG's own file for Kaub (opens in a new tab)

Forecast water levels are from BfG. Waterlogged only reports historical and current data.

Every figure above is a water level at the gauge, in centimetres. It is not the depth of water under a ship and it is not a ship's draft.

Day4

Frankfurt

Wednesday 23 September · Germany

Far below the line

The measured level is under half of Waterlogged's reference line for a ship of this class.

Scale 0–200 cm

62 cm below Waterlogged’s reference line

That is how far today's measured level sits below the line we estimate a ship of this class needs. The level it is measured against is our own estimate, not a figure from the cruise line.

Water level now (6 September) 31 cm
How we calculate ship needWaterlogged estimates that a river needs to be 2.05m in depth to be navigable by river cruises. A river cruise ship has a draft of approximately 1.60m and we add an additional 0.45m above this. This number is not from official cruise line reports. Ships with smaller drafts or special permission may be able to sail in less water. The figure on the page beside this note is a gauge level, and a gauge level is the height of the water at one measuring station, read from that station's own zero. It is not the depth of the navigable channel, it is not the room left under a ship's keel, and it is not a ship's draft. Our line is a level we compare today's reading with. It is not a depth anybody has measured under your ship. 93 cm
Normal for 23 September (median for 2015–2026) 138 cm

Falling — the river level fell 22 cm in the last three days.

On the record: For 2015–2025, we checked the eleven days around this date. Kaub’s lowest daily average was 61 cm, in 2018. Today’s reading is 31. That is below every one of the 121 readings in that window.

Water levels are measured at the Kaub gauge – German federal waterways gauge service (PEGELONLINE).

YOUR CRUISE2000WLSNWLSN1 Aug1 Sep1 Oct1 Nov1 Dec
  • Current level
  • Past average for this date
  • WLSNHow we calculate ship needWaterlogged estimates that a river needs to be 2.05m in depth to be navigable by river cruises. A river cruise ship has a draft of approximately 1.60m and we add an additional 0.45m above this. This number is not from official cruise line reports. Ships with smaller drafts or special permission may be able to sail in less water. The figure on the page beside this note is a gauge level, and a gauge level is the height of the water at one measuring station, read from that station's own zero. It is not the depth of the navigable channel, it is not the room left under a ship's keel, and it is not a ship's draft. Our line is a level we compare today's reading with. It is not a depth anybody has measured under your ship. (93 cm)
  • Measured level below that line
  • BfG’s own 14-day forecast: their low-to-high range and middle line · BfG issued this forecast: 2026-09-05 GMT+1 · Bundesanstalt für Gewässerkunde (BfG)
  • BfG’s own 6-week outlook: one block for each whole published week · 3 of 4 published weeks reach beyond the scale of this frame and are not drawn · BfG issued this forecast: 2026-09-03 · Bundesanstalt für Gewässerkunde (BfG)

Current and normal water levels. The solid blue line shows the current measured water level. The dashed grey line is the historic average of the water level from July 29th until December 1st. The bold dashed line labelled WLSN is the water level a ship of this class needs — Waterlogged's reference line for a ship of this class: 93 cm. It is a gauge level, not a depth under the hull. Today's water sits 114 cm below the normal water level for this date. During your shaded cruise dates the normal water level is 139 cm on 20 September and 129 cm on 4 October. The water level at this location historically keeps rising over the next three months.

The official forecast for this gauge

BfG's 14-day water-level forecast for Kaub BfG issued this forecast: 2026-09-05 GMT+1
BfG's 14-day water-level forecast for Kaub

Published by Bundesanstalt für Gewässerkunde (BfG). BfG issued this forecast: 2026-09-05 GMT+1.

1000Sun 6 SepFri 18 Sep
BfG's own daily figures for Kaub, in cm at the gauge.
DayLowerMiddleUpper
Sun 6 Sep323437
Mon 7 Sep283235
Tue 8 Sep172227
Wed 9 Sep111622
Thu 10 Sep81624
Fri 11 Sep102235
Sat 12 Sep163252
Sun 13 Sep204065
Mon 14 Sep224573
Tue 15 Sep224986
Wed 16 Sep195093
Thu 17 Sep164894
Fri 18 Sep134695

BfG publishes a low and a high figure for every day, not one certain number. Read the whole range.

The three columns are BfG's own 10th, 50th and 90th percentiles, in centimetres at the gauge. Nothing between them is filled in by us.

BfG does not publish values above 640 centimetres. Where a figure would be higher, their file says so and this table reads "above 640".

BfG's own file for Kaub (opens in a new tab)

BfG's 6-week outlook for Kaub BfG issued this forecast: 2026-09-03
BfG's 6-week outlook for Kaub

Published by Bundesanstalt für Gewässerkunde (BfG). BfG issued this forecast: 2026-09-03.

Each line is one whole week, which is how BfG publishes this product. It gives no figure for any single day, and neither do we.

BfG's own weekly figures for Kaub, in cm at the gauge.
WeekLowerMiddleUpper
3–9 September303744
10–16 September72955
17–23 September-651135
24–30 September-957159
1–7 October-367173
8–14 October674170

The three columns are BfG's own 5th, 50th and 95th percentiles from their weather-driven runs, in centimetres at the gauge.

BfG's own file for Kaub (opens in a new tab)

Forecast water levels are from BfG. Waterlogged only reports historical and current data.

Every figure above is a water level at the gauge, in centimetres. It is not the depth of water under a ship and it is not a ship's draft.

Day5

Wertheim

Thursday 24 September · Germany

No line published

This is a real reading. There is nothing published to measure it against.

Scale 0–250 cm

148 cm
measured

Nobody publishes a target level for this stretch, so there is nothing to measure the reading against. We show the reading and the direction, and nothing more.

Water level now (6 September) 148 cm

Rising — the river level rose 2 cm in the last three days.

Water levels are measured at the Würzburg gauge – German federal waterways gauge service (PEGELONLINE).
No official data — the reading is official; there is simply nothing published to compare it against.

We do not draw a measured history graph for this gauge. The reading above is current and official; the archive the graph would be drawn from is not ours to republish.

Day6

Würzburg

Friday 25 September · Germany

No line published

This is a real reading. There is nothing published to measure it against.

Scale 0–250 cm

148 cm
measured

Nobody publishes a target level for this stretch, so there is nothing to measure the reading against. We show the reading and the direction, and nothing more.

Water level now (6 September) 148 cm

Rising — the river level rose 2 cm in the last three days.

Water levels are measured at the Würzburg gauge – German federal waterways gauge service (PEGELONLINE).
No official data — the reading is official; there is simply nothing published to compare it against.

We do not draw a measured history graph for this gauge. The reading above is current and official; the archive the graph would be drawn from is not ours to republish.

Day7

Kitzingen

Saturday 26 September · Germany

No line published

This is a real reading. There is nothing published to measure it against.

Scale 0–250 cm

148 cm
measured

Nobody publishes a target level for this stretch, so there is nothing to measure the reading against. We show the reading and the direction, and nothing more.

Water level now (6 September) 148 cm

Rising — the river level rose 2 cm in the last three days.

Water levels are measured at the Würzburg gauge – German federal waterways gauge service (PEGELONLINE).
No official data — the reading is official; there is simply nothing published to compare it against.

We do not draw a measured history graph for this gauge. The reading above is current and official; the archive the graph would be drawn from is not ours to republish.

Day8

Bamberg

Sunday 27 September · Germany

No line published

This is a real reading. There is nothing published to measure it against.

Scale 0–250 cm

148 cm
measured

Nobody publishes a target level for this stretch, so there is nothing to measure the reading against. We show the reading and the direction, and nothing more.

Water level now (6 September) 148 cm

Rising — the river level rose 2 cm in the last three days.

Water levels are measured at the Würzburg gauge – German federal waterways gauge service (PEGELONLINE).
No official data — the reading is official; there is simply nothing published to compare it against.

We do not draw a measured history graph for this gauge. The reading above is current and official; the archive the graph would be drawn from is not ours to republish.

Day9

Nuremberg

Monday 28 September · Germany

No line published

This is a real reading. There is nothing published to measure it against.

Scale 0–250 cm

148 cm
measured

Nobody publishes a target level for this stretch, so there is nothing to measure the reading against. We show the reading and the direction, and nothing more.

Water level now (6 September) 148 cm

Rising — the river level rose 2 cm in the last three days.

Water levels are measured at the Würzburg gauge – German federal waterways gauge service (PEGELONLINE).
No official data — the reading is official; there is simply nothing published to compare it against.

We do not draw a measured history graph for this gauge. The reading above is current and official; the archive the graph would be drawn from is not ours to republish.

Day10

Regensburg

Tuesday 29 September · Germany

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.

Locks hold the level here, so low water rarely stops a ship.

Full details

The water here is held at a working level by locks. Rainfall does not set it.

What sets the levellocks
Kind of watera reach held at a working level by locks
Level readingno level reading is published for this stretch
Sensitive to low waterfar less than a free-flowing stretch

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.

Day11

Passau

Wednesday 30 September · Germany

Below the line

The measured level is below the published low-water reference for this stretch.

Scale 0–500 cm

65 cm below Waterlogged’s reference line

That is how far today's measured level sits below the line we estimate a ship of this class needs. The level it is measured against is our own estimate, not a figure from the cruise line.

Water level now (6 September) 225 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 30 September (median for 2015–2026) 308 cm

Rising — the river level rose 5 cm in the last three days.

On the record: For 2015–2025, we checked the eleven days around this date. Pfelling’s lowest daily average was 248 cm, in 2018. Today’s reading is 225. 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).
Published low-water reference — the waterway authority's own figure for this stretch, not a requirement set by your cruise line.

YOUR CRUISE3500WLSNWLSN1 Aug1 Sep1 Oct1 Nov1 Dec
  • Current level
  • Past average for this date
  • WLSN — Published An authority's published low-level mark for a stretch. It is not a requirement for your ship. for this stretch (290 cm)
  • Measured level below that line
  • 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)

Current and normal water levels. The solid blue line shows the current measured water level. The dashed grey line is the historic average of the water level from July 29th until December 1st. The bold dashed line labelled WLSN is the water level a ship of this class needs — Waterlogged's reference line for a ship of this class: 290 cm. It is a gauge level, not a depth under the hull. Today's water sits 82 cm below the normal water level for this date. During your shaded cruise dates the normal water level is 308 cm on 20 September and 308 cm on 4 October. The water level at this location historically keeps rising over the next three months.

The official forecast for this gauge

BfG publishes no 14-day forecast for this gauge.

BfG's 6-week outlook for Pfelling BfG issued this forecast: 2026-09-03
BfG's 6-week outlook for Pfelling

Published by Bundesanstalt für Gewässerkunde (BfG). BfG issued this forecast: 2026-09-03.

Each line is one whole week, which is how BfG publishes this product. It gives no figure for any single day, and neither do we.

BfG's own weekly figures for Pfelling, in cm at the gauge.
WeekLowerMiddleUpper
3–9 September159177198
10–16 September126191301
17–23 September113227488
24–30 September97202452
1–7 October102203433
8–14 October106206428

The three columns are BfG's own 5th, 50th and 95th percentiles from their weather-driven runs, in centimetres at the gauge.

BfG's own file for Pfelling (opens in a new tab)

Forecast water levels are from BfG. Waterlogged only reports historical and current data.

Every figure above is a water level at the gauge, in centimetres. It is not the depth of water under a ship and it is not a ship's draft.

Day12

Weissenkirchen ; Tulln

Thursday 1 October · Austria

Below the line

The measured level is below the published low-water reference for this stretch.

Scale 0–500 cm

65 cm below Waterlogged’s reference line

That is how far today's measured level sits below the line we estimate a ship of this class needs. The level it is measured against is our own estimate, not a figure from the cruise line.

Water level now (6 September) 225 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 1 October (median for 2015–2026) 308 cm

Rising — the river level rose 5 cm in the last three days.

On the record: For 2015–2025, we checked the eleven days around this date. Pfelling’s lowest daily average was 248 cm, in 2018. Today’s reading is 225. 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).
Published low-water reference — the waterway authority's own figure for this stretch, not a requirement set by your cruise line.

YOUR CRUISE3500WLSNWLSN1 Aug1 Sep1 Oct1 Nov1 Dec
  • Current level
  • Past average for this date
  • WLSN — Published An authority's published low-level mark for a stretch. It is not a requirement for your ship. for this stretch (290 cm)
  • Measured level below that line
  • 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)

Current and normal water levels. The solid blue line shows the current measured water level. The dashed grey line is the historic average of the water level from July 29th until December 1st. The bold dashed line labelled WLSN is the water level a ship of this class needs — Waterlogged's reference line for a ship of this class: 290 cm. It is a gauge level, not a depth under the hull. Today's water sits 82 cm below the normal water level for this date. During your shaded cruise dates the normal water level is 308 cm on 20 September and 308 cm on 4 October. The water level at this location historically keeps rising over the next three months.

The official forecast for this gauge

BfG publishes no 14-day forecast for this gauge.

BfG's 6-week outlook for Pfelling BfG issued this forecast: 2026-09-03
BfG's 6-week outlook for Pfelling

Published by Bundesanstalt für Gewässerkunde (BfG). BfG issued this forecast: 2026-09-03.

Each line is one whole week, which is how BfG publishes this product. It gives no figure for any single day, and neither do we.

BfG's own weekly figures for Pfelling, in cm at the gauge.
WeekLowerMiddleUpper
3–9 September159177198
10–16 September126191301
17–23 September113227488
24–30 September97202452
1–7 October102203433
8–14 October106206428

The three columns are BfG's own 5th, 50th and 95th percentiles from their weather-driven runs, in centimetres at the gauge.

BfG's own file for Pfelling (opens in a new tab)

Forecast water levels are from BfG. Waterlogged only reports historical and current data.

Every figure above is a water level at the gauge, in centimetres. It is not the depth of water under a ship and it is not a ship's draft.

Day13

Vienna

Friday 2 October · Austria

No line published

This is a real reading. There is nothing published to measure it against.

Scale 0–300 cm

103 cm
measured

Nobody publishes a target level for this stretch, so there is nothing to measure the reading against. We show the reading and the direction, and nothing more.

Water level now (6 September) 103 cm
Normal for 2 October (median for 2002–2026) 244 cm

Falling — the river level fell 37 cm in the last three days.

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..
No official data — the reading is official; there is simply nothing published to compare it against.

YOUR CRUISE30001 Aug1 Sep1 Oct1 Nov1 Dec
  • Current level
  • Past average for this date
  • Measured level below that line
  • EuRIS official water-level prediction for Kienstock, from originator viadonau · Waterlogged retrieved this prediction: 6 Sep 2026, 06:16 CEST · API/Service Hydrometeo v3 incorporated from EuRIS (eurisportal.eu) · Quelle: viadonau

Current and normal water levels. The solid blue line shows the current measured water level. The dashed grey line is the historic average of the water level from July 29th until December 1st. Today's water sits 162 cm below the normal water level for this date. During your shaded cruise dates the normal water level is 254 cm on 20 September and 240 cm on 4 October. The water level at this location historically keeps falling over the next three months.

The official prediction for this gauge

EuRIS official water-level prediction for Kienstock Waterlogged retrieved this prediction: 6 Sep 2026, 06:16 CEST
EuRIS official water-level prediction for Kienstock

API/Service Hydrometeo v3 incorporated from EuRIS (eurisportal.eu). Waterlogged retrieved this prediction: 6 Sep 2026, 06:16 CEST.

Quelle: viadonau — EuRIS names viadonau as the source of this gauge series.

EuRIS publishes no issue time with this prediction, so the time above is when we retrieved it, not when EuRIS made it.

EuRIS's own predicted figures for Kienstock, in cm at the gauge.
Time at the gaugeWater level (cm)
Sun 6 Sep, 06:00116
Sun 6 Sep, 07:00116
Sun 6 Sep, 08:00116
Sun 6 Sep, 09:00116
Sun 6 Sep, 10:00115
Sun 6 Sep, 11:00115
Sun 6 Sep, 12:00115
Sun 6 Sep, 13:00115
Sun 6 Sep, 14:00114
Sun 6 Sep, 15:00114
Sun 6 Sep, 16:00114
Sun 6 Sep, 17:00114
Sun 6 Sep, 18:00114
Sun 6 Sep, 19:00113
Sun 6 Sep, 20:00113
Sun 6 Sep, 21:00113
Sun 6 Sep, 22:00113
Sun 6 Sep, 23:00113
Mon 7 Sep, 00:00113
Mon 7 Sep, 01:00112
Mon 7 Sep, 02:00112
Mon 7 Sep, 03:00112
Mon 7 Sep, 04:00112
Mon 7 Sep, 05:00112
Mon 7 Sep, 06:00111
Mon 7 Sep, 07:00111
Mon 7 Sep, 08:00111
Mon 7 Sep, 09:00111
Mon 7 Sep, 10:00111
Mon 7 Sep, 11:00111
Mon 7 Sep, 12:00111
Mon 7 Sep, 13:00111
Mon 7 Sep, 14:00111
Mon 7 Sep, 15:00111
Mon 7 Sep, 16:00111
Mon 7 Sep, 17:00111
Mon 7 Sep, 18:00111
Mon 7 Sep, 19:00111
Mon 7 Sep, 20:00112
Mon 7 Sep, 21:00112
Mon 7 Sep, 22:00112
Mon 7 Sep, 23:00112
Tue 8 Sep, 00:00112
Tue 8 Sep, 01:00112
Tue 8 Sep, 02:00111
Tue 8 Sep, 03:00111
Tue 8 Sep, 04:00111
Tue 8 Sep, 05:00112
Tue 8 Sep, 06:00112
Tue 8 Sep, 07:00112
Tue 8 Sep, 08:00112
Tue 8 Sep, 09:00112
Tue 8 Sep, 10:00112
Tue 8 Sep, 11:00113
Tue 8 Sep, 12:00113
Tue 8 Sep, 13:00114
Tue 8 Sep, 14:00114
Tue 8 Sep, 15:00114
Tue 8 Sep, 16:00115
Tue 8 Sep, 17:00115
Tue 8 Sep, 18:00115
Tue 8 Sep, 19:00115
Tue 8 Sep, 20:00115
Tue 8 Sep, 21:00114
Tue 8 Sep, 22:00114
Tue 8 Sep, 23:00114
Wed 9 Sep, 00:00113
Wed 9 Sep, 01:00113
Wed 9 Sep, 02:00112
Wed 9 Sep, 03:00112
Wed 9 Sep, 04:00111
Wed 9 Sep, 05:00111

72 figures, from Sun 6 Sep, 06:00 to Wed 9 Sep, 05:00, in local time at the gauge.

Every figure is EuRIS's own, in centimetres at the gauge. Nothing between two figures is filled in by us, and nothing is added beyond the last one.

EuRIS prediction run dca61795-2a7d-479a-8236-60f37e5f92dc.

The EuRIS portal, where this prediction is published (opens in a new tab)

viadonau’s own river information service (opens in a new tab)

Predicted water levels are from EuRIS. Waterlogged only reports historical and current data.

Every figure above is a water level at the gauge, in centimetres. It is not the depth of water under a ship and it is not a ship's draft.

Day14–15

Budapest

Sat 3 – Sun 4 October · Hungary

Far below the line

The measured level is under half of Waterlogged's reference line for a ship of this class.

Scale 0–250 cm

33 cm below Waterlogged’s reference line

That is how far today's measured level sits below the line we estimate a ship of this class needs. The level it is measured against is our own estimate, not a figure from the cruise line.

Water level now (6 September) 27 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 3 October (median for 1991–2025) 188 cm

Falling — the river level fell 11 cm in the last three days.

On the record: For 1991–2025, we checked the eleven days around this date. Budapest’s lowest daily average was 64 cm, in 2015. Today’s reading is 27. 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..
Waterlogged estimated level — our own level for this stretch, set from 35 years of records: every cruise-season day below it fell within a documented disruption. No authority publishes a figure here.

YOUR CRUISE2500WLSNWLSN1 Aug1 Sep1 Oct1 Nov1 Dec
  • Current level
  • Past average for this date
  • WLSN — 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)
  • Measured level below that line
  • EuRIS official water-level prediction for Budapest, from originator Országos Vízügyi Főigazgatóság (OVF) · Waterlogged retrieved this prediction: 6 Sep 2026, 06:16 CEST · API/Service Hydrometeo v3 incorporated from EuRIS (eurisportal.eu) · Országos Vízügyi Főigazgatóság (OVF) / General Directorate of Water Management

Current and normal water levels. The solid blue line shows the current measured water level. The dashed grey line is the historic average of the water level from July 29th until December 1st. The bold dashed line labelled WLSN is the water level a ship of this class needs — Waterlogged's reference line for a ship of this class: 60 cm. It is a gauge level, not a depth under the hull. Today's water sits 175 cm below the normal water level for this date. During your shaded cruise dates the normal water level is 198 cm on 20 September and 187 cm on 4 October. The water level at this location historically keeps falling over the next three months.

The official prediction for this gauge

EuRIS official water-level prediction for Budapest Waterlogged retrieved this prediction: 6 Sep 2026, 06:16 CEST
EuRIS official water-level prediction for Budapest

API/Service Hydrometeo v3 incorporated from EuRIS (eurisportal.eu). Waterlogged retrieved this prediction: 6 Sep 2026, 06:16 CEST.

Országos Vízügyi Főigazgatóság (OVF) / General Directorate of Water Management — EuRIS names Országos Vízügyi Főigazgatóság (OVF) as the source of this gauge series.

EuRIS publishes no issue time with this prediction, so the time above is when we retrieved it, not when EuRIS made it.

EuRIS's own predicted figures for Budapest, in cm at the gauge.
Time at the gaugeWater level (cm)
Sun 6 Sep, 13:0026
Sun 6 Sep, 19:0025
Mon 7 Sep, 01:0025
Mon 7 Sep, 07:0024
Mon 7 Sep, 13:0024
Mon 7 Sep, 19:0024
Tue 8 Sep, 01:0023
Tue 8 Sep, 07:0023
Tue 8 Sep, 13:0023
Tue 8 Sep, 19:0023
Wed 9 Sep, 01:0023
Wed 9 Sep, 07:0023
Wed 9 Sep, 13:0023
Wed 9 Sep, 19:0023
Thu 10 Sep, 01:0023
Thu 10 Sep, 07:0023
Thu 10 Sep, 13:0023
Thu 10 Sep, 19:0024
Fri 11 Sep, 01:0026
Fri 11 Sep, 07:0028

20 figures, from Sun 6 Sep, 13:00 to Fri 11 Sep, 07:00, in local time at the gauge.

Every figure is EuRIS's own, in centimetres at the gauge. Nothing between two figures is filled in by us, and nothing is added beyond the last one.

EuRIS prediction run 7b297e1b-cdc9-4a51-854b-8feddee4e468.

The EuRIS portal, where this prediction is published (opens in a new tab)

Országos Vízügyi Főigazgatóság (OVF)’s own river information service (opens in a new tab)

Predicted water levels are from EuRIS. Waterlogged only reports historical and current data.

Every figure above is a water level at the gauge, in centimetres. It is not the depth of water under a ship and it is not a ship's draft.

Rain on your route — calculated daily

Rain forecast by Open-Meteo (commercial licence) · fetched 6 September 2026 at 05:16 UTC · covering 14 days, 6 September to 19 September.

Rain can raise the water level of a river but there is no fixed rule on how much it does. We only report how much the quantity of rainfall has changed the water level before under similar conditions. It is context, not a prediction of a river level.

Licensed rain forecast + what the water level has actually done before

The detailed weather forecast for your route

All rain forecasts use the same scale, 0–12 mm of rain a day, so you can compare them directly. Each column is one day, with its date at the top, then the sky for that day and the daily high in °C.

Rain forecast by Open-Meteo (commercial licence) · fetched 6 September 2026 at 05:16 UTC · covering 14 days, 6 September to 19 September.

Cologne Rhine · Germany

Below the line

date, sky and daily high °C

6 September19 September

14 days · mm/day upstream of this gauge

≈ 51 mm expected upstream over 14 days

Rain forecast by Open-Meteo (commercial licence) · fetched 6 September 2026 at 05:16 UTC · covering 14 days, 6 September to 19 September.

In past years rain like this raised the water level here for a few days before it settled back. It did not close a gap of 53 cm.

This is our reading of the rain forecast, based on what rain has actually done to this river in past years. It is not an official river forecast.

Kaub Rhine · Germany

Far below the line

date, sky and daily high °C

6 September19 September

14 days · mm/day upstream of this gauge

≈ 28 mm expected upstream over 14 days

Rain forecast by Open-Meteo (commercial licence) · fetched 6 September 2026 at 05:16 UTC · covering 14 days, 6 September to 19 September.

In past years this much rain, landing on a river already this low, held the level steady for a week or so. It did not close a gap of 62 cm.

This is our reading of the rain forecast, based on what rain has actually done to this river in past years. It is not an official river forecast.

Pfelling Danube · Germany

Below the line

date, sky and daily high °C

6 September19 September

14 days · mm/day upstream of this gauge

≈ 39 mm expected upstream over 14 days

Rain forecast by Open-Meteo (commercial licence) · fetched 6 September 2026 at 05:16 UTC · covering 14 days, 6 September to 19 September.

Rain drains away faster here than on the Rhine. At Pfelling the extra height from rain is usually half gone in about 16 days. At Kaub it lasts much longer — about 55. In past years this much rain, landing on a river already this low, held the level steady for a week or so. It did not close a gap of 65 cm.

This is our reading of the rain forecast, based on what rain has actually done to this river in past years. It is not an official river forecast.

Kienstock Danube · Austria

No line published

date, sky and daily high °C

6 September19 September

14 days · mm/day upstream of this gauge

≈ 41 mm expected upstream over 14 days

Rain forecast by Open-Meteo (commercial licence) · fetched 6 September 2026 at 05:16 UTC · covering 14 days, 6 September to 19 September.

At Kienstock the water sits behind A dam built across the river that holds the water above it at a set level. Where one stands, the depth is set by the dam, not by rain., so the dams set this level, not the rain. Rain of this size has changed the water level here in past years without changing anything about getting through.

This is our reading of the rain forecast, based on what rain has actually done to this river in past years. It is not an official river forecast.

Budapest Danube · Hungary

Far below the line

date, sky and daily high °C

6 September19 September

14 days · mm/day upstream of this gauge

≈ 30 mm expected upstream over 14 days

Rain forecast by Open-Meteo (commercial licence) · fetched 6 September 2026 at 05:16 UTC · covering 14 days, 6 September to 19 September.

In our 25 years of Budapest records, rain of this size has moved the water level here by a few centimetres at a time. Today’s level sits 161 cm below normal for the date. It would take far more than this to close that.

This is our reading of the rain forecast, based on what rain has actually done to this river in past years. It is not an official river forecast.

The rest of your route

Locks and A dam built across the river that holds the water above it at a set level. Where one stands, the depth is set by the dam, not by rain. hold the water level at a set height at Regensburg. So rain is not a river question at these ports. That is why none of these has a rain forecast. What is left is the weather for your day in town.

AmsterdamNetherlands

date, sky and daily high °C

RüdesheimMiddle Rhine gorge · Germany

date, sky and daily high °C

WürzburgMain · Germany

date, sky and daily high °C

BambergMain · Germany

date, sky and daily high °C

NurembergMain · Germany

date, sky and daily high °C

RegensburgMain-Danube Canal · Germany

date, sky and daily high °C

PassauStraubing–Vilshofen free stretch · Germany

date, sky and daily high °C

ViennaAustrian Danube · Austria

date, sky and daily high °C

the same days · 6 September to 19 September · daily highs in °C

Rain forecast by Open-Meteo (commercial licence) · fetched 6 September 2026 at 05:16 UTC · covering 14 days, 6 September to 19 September.

How rain reaches the river — the rules we use the stages, the half-lives and the 2003 warning behind every line above

How rain becomes a water level

A river responds to rain in stages. A nearby shower may matter less than rain far upstream.

  • Rain fallsWhere the rain lands matters as much as the total.
  • Ground takes a shareDry ground can hold most of the first rain.
  • Tributaries bring it downWater arrives from different Side rivers and streams that feed the main river at different times. at different times.
  • The gauge gets a pulseA A short rise that has travelled downstream after rain further up the river. can briefly raise the level at the gauge.
  • Baseflow settles itThe slow supply of stored water that keeps a river running between periods of rain. is the slower supply of stored water. It decides where the level settles.

Why winter rain often does more

Winter ground is usually wetter and cooler. Plants use less water then. Less water also evaporates. More of the same rain can reach the river. In high summer, dry soil and growing plants take more water first. Less water then flows over the land into the river.

What "half-life" means here

The How long half of an unusual water-level difference has historically taken to fade. is based on past records. It is the time for half the extra height above the usual seasonal level to fade. It describes persistence, not how many centimetres a storm will add.

Estimated half-life of unusual levels at eligible route gauges
GaugeWinter-runoff blockSummer-recession block
Pfelling 17.3 daysdrift_params.json → PFELLING.blocks[winter_runoff].half_life_days 15.6 daysdrift_params.json → PFELLING.blocks[summer_recession].half_life_days
Hofkirchen 20.2 daysdrift_params.json → HOFKIRCHEN.blocks[winter_runoff].half_life_days 18.7 daysdrift_params.json → HOFKIRCHEN.blocks[summer_recession].half_life_days
Kaub 32.7 daysdrift_params.json → KAUB.blocks[winter_runoff].half_life_days 55.3 daysdrift_params.json → KAUB.blocks[summer_recession].half_life_days
Cologne 31.1 daysdrift_params.json → KOELN.blocks[winter_runoff].half_life_days 58.0 daysdrift_params.json → KOELN.blocks[summer_recession].half_life_days

Read the difference carefully. A longer summer value at the Rhine gauges does not mean summer rain adds more water. It means an unusual measured level faded more slowly in that set of calendar dates. The block names come from the parameter file; they are not weather seasons or a rain-to-level formula.

Rules of thumb

Use these to read a wet outlook — not to predict a sailing-day level.

  1. After a long dry period, the first roughly 10 mm may mainly soak the soil. Do not expect much change at the gauge before that.

    Source: waterlogged/rain_explainer.py → transfer_function.soil_absorption_first_mm.value_mm = 10; explicitly qualitative, not a fitted gauge coefficient.

  2. Look downstream after about 1 day Basel–Maxau, 1–1½ days Maxau–Kaub and ½–1 day Kaub–Cologne; Austrian Danube events spanned 60–118 hours, so there is no honest fixed Danube clock.

    Sources: docs/council_alignment/lens_hydrology.md gives Rhine flood-wave and falling-water travel times. docs/climate_evidence_wide_signals.md gives the "Travel time & Alpine share" event range and the no-fixed-lag rule.

  3. A routed rain pulse can briefly raise a gauge. Baseflow is the slower supply of stored water. It decides where the level settles.

    Source: waterlogged/rain_explainer.py gives the wording about a rain pulse in each season. The figures in the table above are the fitted half_life_days from drift_params.json.

That is the calculation you have just read. The licence turns this panel from a list of links into a daily reading. It still stops where the evidence stops.

Rainfall forecast is provided by a commercial forecast service. Waterlogged reports on how an amount of rainfall has historically affected the water level. This historical information is provided for illustrative reasons and should not be used for any prediction.

Rain is context, not a prediction of a river level. Nothing on this page turns millimetres of rain into centimetres at a gauge, and no status anywhere on this page moves because rain is forecast.

The official services we link to forecast the water level at a gauge. That is not a promised depth of water under your ship, and none of them publishes one.

Weather data comes from a licensed provider. Weather data by Open-Meteo (commercial licence)

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Day 2 · Cologne

Open the official projection.

Your call here is 15 days away — beyond the daily forecast

BfG six-week outlook for Köln — likely ranges for each week
Published by Bundesanstalt für Gewässerkunde (BfG).

Nothing published today can tell you the level on 21 September. 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 15 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 Köln's own sheet directly. Find the week beginning 21 September. Then read which band it sits in against the 139 cm line on this page.

From 7 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.

How to read it

The official document is in German. Both choices below explain the same product.

BfG's own FAQ on the six-week bands (PDF, German)
English guide (unofficial)

English guide (unofficial) — only the German original is official.

What this document is. BfG runs the river model many times over. Each run uses a different possible weather sequence taken from the historical record. The chart shades in the spread of those runs. It answers "where is this gauge likely to sit", not "what will it read on Thursday".

How the chart is laid out. Time runs left to right in weeks, not days. The upright scale is centimetres at Köln's own The fixed zero point for a gauge's centimetre scale. It can sit above the riverbed.. This page uses the same scale, so 139 cm means the same thing on both.

What the shaded bands mean. Each band covers a share of those model runs. A wide band means the runs disagree and the week is genuinely open. A narrow band means they agree. The band is the answer — the middle of it is not a prediction.

What to do with it. Find the week beginning 21 September. If the whole band sits below 139 cm, the outlook for your week is uniformly short. If 139 cm falls inside the band, the honest answer is that nobody knows yet. If the whole band sits above 139 cm, the outlook is comfortable — which still is not a promise about your afternoon.

What it cannot do. It cannot tell you a date, it cannot tell you whether your cruise line will sail, and a weekly average can hide days that sit well below it.

Written by Waterlogged in our own words to explain how the official product works. It is not a translation of it, it has no authority, and where the two differ the German original governs.

Open that FAQ in Google Translate ↗ Machine translation (unofficial) — only the German original is official.

We checked the direct links on 3–4 August 2026 (docs/bfg_deep_links.md). Waterlogged never re-dates or re-scores the authority's product. Where BfG has given us permission to show their figures, they are on this page above, under BfG's name and with BfG's own issue stamp; everything else here is a link to the authority's page.

Day 3 · Rüdesheim

Open the official projection.

Your call here is 16 days away — beyond the daily forecast

BfG six-week outlook for Kaub — likely ranges for each week
Published by Bundesanstalt für Gewässerkunde (BfG).

Nothing published today can tell you the level on 22 September. 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 16 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 Kaub's own sheet directly. Find the week beginning 21 September. Then read which band it sits in against the How we calculate ship needWaterlogged estimates that a river needs to be 2.05m in depth to be navigable by river cruises. A river cruise ship has a draft of approximately 1.60m and we add an additional 0.45m above this. This number is not from official cruise line reports. Ships with smaller drafts or special permission may be able to sail in less water. The figure on the page beside this note is a gauge level, and a gauge level is the height of the water at one measuring station, read from that station's own zero. It is not the depth of the navigable channel, it is not the room left under a ship's keel, and it is not a ship's draft. Our line is a level we compare today's reading with. It is not a depth anybody has measured under your ship. line on this page.

From 8 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.

How to read it

The official document is in German. Both choices below explain the same product.

BfG's own FAQ on the six-week bands (PDF, German)
English guide (unofficial)

English guide (unofficial) — only the German original is official.

What this document is. BfG runs the river model many times over. Each run uses a different possible weather sequence taken from the historical record. The chart shades in the spread of those runs. It answers "where is this gauge likely to sit", not "what will it read on Thursday".

How the chart is laid out. Time runs left to right in weeks, not days. The upright scale is centimetres at Kaub's own The fixed zero point for a gauge's centimetre scale. It can sit above the riverbed.. This page uses the same scale, so 93 cm means the same thing on both.

What the shaded bands mean. Each band covers a share of those model runs. A wide band means the runs disagree and the week is genuinely open. A narrow band means they agree. The band is the answer — the middle of it is not a prediction.

What to do with it. Find the week beginning 21 September. If the whole band sits below 93 cm, the outlook for your week is uniformly short. If 93 cm falls inside the band, the honest answer is that nobody knows yet. If the whole band sits above 93 cm, the outlook is comfortable — which still is not a promise about your afternoon.

What it cannot do. It cannot tell you a date, it cannot tell you whether your cruise line will sail, and a weekly average can hide days that sit well below it.

Written by Waterlogged in our own words to explain how the official product works. It is not a translation of it, it has no authority, and where the two differ the German original governs.

Open that FAQ in Google Translate ↗ Machine translation (unofficial) — only the German original is official.

We checked the direct links on 3–4 August 2026 (docs/bfg_deep_links.md). Waterlogged never re-dates or re-scores the authority's product. Where BfG has given us permission to show their figures, they are on this page above, under BfG's name and with BfG's own issue stamp; everything else here is a link to the authority's page.

Day 4 · Frankfurt

Open the official projection.

Your call here is 17 days away — beyond the daily forecast

BfG six-week outlook for Kaub — likely ranges for each week
Published by Bundesanstalt für Gewässerkunde (BfG).

Nothing published today can tell you the level on 23 September. 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 17 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 Kaub's own sheet directly. Find the week beginning 21 September. Then read which band it sits in against the How we calculate ship needWaterlogged estimates that a river needs to be 2.05m in depth to be navigable by river cruises. A river cruise ship has a draft of approximately 1.60m and we add an additional 0.45m above this. This number is not from official cruise line reports. Ships with smaller drafts or special permission may be able to sail in less water. The figure on the page beside this note is a gauge level, and a gauge level is the height of the water at one measuring station, read from that station's own zero. It is not the depth of the navigable channel, it is not the room left under a ship's keel, and it is not a ship's draft. Our line is a level we compare today's reading with. It is not a depth anybody has measured under your ship. line on this page.

From 9 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.

How to read it

The official document is in German. Both choices below explain the same product.

BfG's own FAQ on the six-week bands (PDF, German)
English guide (unofficial)

English guide (unofficial) — only the German original is official.

What this document is. BfG runs the river model many times over. Each run uses a different possible weather sequence taken from the historical record. The chart shades in the spread of those runs. It answers "where is this gauge likely to sit", not "what will it read on Thursday".

How the chart is laid out. Time runs left to right in weeks, not days. The upright scale is centimetres at Kaub's own The fixed zero point for a gauge's centimetre scale. It can sit above the riverbed.. This page uses the same scale, so 93 cm means the same thing on both.

What the shaded bands mean. Each band covers a share of those model runs. A wide band means the runs disagree and the week is genuinely open. A narrow band means they agree. The band is the answer — the middle of it is not a prediction.

What to do with it. Find the week beginning 21 September. If the whole band sits below 93 cm, the outlook for your week is uniformly short. If 93 cm falls inside the band, the honest answer is that nobody knows yet. If the whole band sits above 93 cm, the outlook is comfortable — which still is not a promise about your afternoon.

What it cannot do. It cannot tell you a date, it cannot tell you whether your cruise line will sail, and a weekly average can hide days that sit well below it.

Written by Waterlogged in our own words to explain how the official product works. It is not a translation of it, it has no authority, and where the two differ the German original governs.

Open that FAQ in Google Translate ↗ Machine translation (unofficial) — only the German original is official.

We checked the direct links on 3–4 August 2026 (docs/bfg_deep_links.md). Waterlogged never re-dates or re-scores the authority's product. Where BfG has given us permission to show their figures, they are on this page above, under BfG's name and with BfG's own issue stamp; everything else here is a link to the authority's page.

Day 10 · Regensburg

Open the official river information.

Germany's official waterway service for forecasts, restrictions and notices to skippers. — German federal waterway notices
Published by Germany's federal waterways and shipping administration. It publishes notices through ELWIS. / ELWIS.

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.

We checked the direct links on 3–4 August 2026 (docs/bfg_deep_links.md). Waterlogged never re-dates or re-scores the authority's product. Where BfG has given us permission to show their figures, they are on this page above, under BfG's name and with BfG's own issue stamp; everything else here is a link to the authority's page.

Day 11 · Passau

Open the official projection.

Your call here is 24 days away — beyond the daily forecast

BfG six-week outlook for Pfelling — likely ranges for each week
Published by Bundesanstalt für Gewässerkunde (BfG).

Nothing published today can tell you the level on 30 September. 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 24 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 28 September. Then read which band it sits in against the 290 cm line on this page.

From 16 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.

How to read it

The official document is in German. Both choices below explain the same product.

BfG's own FAQ on the six-week bands (PDF, German)
English guide (unofficial)

English guide (unofficial) — only the German original is official.

What this document is. BfG runs the river model many times over. Each run uses a different possible weather sequence taken from the historical record. The chart shades in the spread of those runs. It answers "where is this gauge likely to sit", not "what will it read on Thursday".

How the chart is laid out. Time runs left to right in weeks, not days. The upright scale is centimetres at Pfelling's own The fixed zero point for a gauge's centimetre scale. It can sit above the riverbed.. This page uses the same scale, so 290 cm means the same thing on both.

What the shaded bands mean. Each band covers a share of those model runs. A wide band means the runs disagree and the week is genuinely open. A narrow band means they agree. The band is the answer — the middle of it is not a prediction.

What to do with it. Find the week beginning 28 September. If the whole band sits below 290 cm, the outlook for your week is uniformly short. If 290 cm falls inside the band, the honest answer is that nobody knows yet. If the whole band sits above 290 cm, the outlook is comfortable — which still is not a promise about your afternoon.

What it cannot do. It cannot tell you a date, it cannot tell you whether your cruise line will sail, and a weekly average can hide days that sit well below it.

Written by Waterlogged in our own words to explain how the official product works. It is not a translation of it, it has no authority, and where the two differ the German original governs.

Open that FAQ in Google Translate ↗ Machine translation (unofficial) — only the German original is official.

We checked the direct links on 3–4 August 2026 (docs/bfg_deep_links.md). Waterlogged never re-dates or re-scores the authority's product. Where BfG has given us permission to show their figures, they are on this page above, under BfG's name and with BfG's own issue stamp; everything else here is a link to the authority's page.

Day 12 · Weissenkirchen ; Tulln

Open the official projection.

Your call here is 25 days away — beyond the daily forecast

BfG six-week outlook for Pfelling — likely ranges for each week
Published by Bundesanstalt für Gewässerkunde (BfG).

Nothing published today can tell you the level on 1 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 25 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 28 September. Then read which band it sits in against the 290 cm line on this page.

From 17 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.

How to read it

The official document is in German. Both choices below explain the same product.

BfG's own FAQ on the six-week bands (PDF, German)
English guide (unofficial)

English guide (unofficial) — only the German original is official.

What this document is. BfG runs the river model many times over. Each run uses a different possible weather sequence taken from the historical record. The chart shades in the spread of those runs. It answers "where is this gauge likely to sit", not "what will it read on Thursday".

How the chart is laid out. Time runs left to right in weeks, not days. The upright scale is centimetres at Pfelling's own The fixed zero point for a gauge's centimetre scale. It can sit above the riverbed.. This page uses the same scale, so 290 cm means the same thing on both.

What the shaded bands mean. Each band covers a share of those model runs. A wide band means the runs disagree and the week is genuinely open. A narrow band means they agree. The band is the answer — the middle of it is not a prediction.

What to do with it. Find the week beginning 28 September. If the whole band sits below 290 cm, the outlook for your week is uniformly short. If 290 cm falls inside the band, the honest answer is that nobody knows yet. If the whole band sits above 290 cm, the outlook is comfortable — which still is not a promise about your afternoon.

What it cannot do. It cannot tell you a date, it cannot tell you whether your cruise line will sail, and a weekly average can hide days that sit well below it.

Written by Waterlogged in our own words to explain how the official product works. It is not a translation of it, it has no authority, and where the two differ the German original governs.

Open that FAQ in Google Translate ↗ Machine translation (unofficial) — only the German original is official.

We checked the direct links on 3–4 August 2026 (docs/bfg_deep_links.md). Waterlogged never re-dates or re-scores the authority's product. Where BfG has given us permission to show their figures, they are on this page above, under BfG's name and with BfG's own issue stamp; everything else here is a link to the authority's page.

Day 13 · Vienna

Open the official projection.

Austria's Danube River Information Services site for water levels and navigation notices. station page — Kienstock, the Wachau reference gauge
Published by Austria's government-owned waterway company for the Danube., the Austrian waterway company, through DoRIS.
English · official Austrian navigation service (viadonau / DoRIS)

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.

We checked the direct links on 3–4 August 2026 (docs/bfg_deep_links.md). Waterlogged never re-dates or re-scores the authority's product. Where BfG has given us permission to show their figures, they are on this page above, under BfG's name and with BfG's own issue stamp; everything else here is a link to the authority's page.

Day 14–15 · Budapest

Open the official projection.

Hungary's national water authority. Its forecasting service publishes the Budapest table. water-level forecast for Budapest
Published by Országos Vízjelző Szolgálat (The Hungarian national forecasting service. It publishes the Budapest forecast under OVF.), Hungary’s national forecasting service, under OVF.
English · official Hungarian national service (OVF / OVSZ)

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.

We checked the direct links on 3–4 August 2026 (docs/bfg_deep_links.md). Waterlogged never re-dates or re-scores the authority's product. Where BfG has given us permission to show their figures, they are on this page above, under BfG's name and with BfG's own issue stamp; everything else here is a link to the authority's page.