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Berlin
Day 1–2 · Thu 17 – Fri 18 September · Germany
The ship does not sail on this day. Your itinerary spends it on land, so no river level applies to it.
Not sailing
Your itinerary spends this day on land, so the ship does not sail and no river level applies to it.
Your itinerary spends this day on land. The ship is not sailing, so no river level applies to it and no waterway notice is about it.
Potsdam; Wittenberg
Day 3 · Saturday 19 September · Czechia
This is a real reading. There is nothing published to measure it against.
55 cm measured
Nothing is published for this stretch to measure the reading against.
| Water level now | 55 cm |
|---|---|
| Normal for 19 September | 104 cm |
Water levels are measured at the Dresden gauge – German federal waterways gauge service (PEGELONLINE).
What to check on the official page: BfG's daily forecast is a Rhine product and does not reach the Elbe. Saxony's own flood centre forecasts Dresden, and the button below opens that page.
Scroll past the measured table to the one headed Vorhersage vom. It gives a level in centimetres every three hours for about three days, with the hour the run was made printed at the top. The chart above it shades the forecast range and the looser estimate beyond it.
Saxony marks every figure on that portal as unchecked raw data, so read it as the authority's working picture rather than a settled record.
Open the official Dresden forecast (German) (opens in a new tab)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)
Wittenberg
Day 4 · Sunday 20 September · 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.
Meissen
Day 5 · Monday 21 September · Germany
This is a real reading. There is nothing published to measure it against.
55 cm measured
Nothing is published for this stretch to measure the reading against.
| Water level now | 55 cm |
|---|---|
| Normal for 21 September | 105 cm |
Water levels are measured at the Dresden gauge – German federal waterways gauge service (PEGELONLINE).
What to check on the official page: BfG's daily forecast is a Rhine product and does not reach the Elbe. Saxony's own flood centre forecasts Dresden, and the button below opens that page.
Scroll past the measured table to the one headed Vorhersage vom. It gives a level in centimetres every three hours for about three days, with the hour the run was made printed at the top. The chart above it shades the forecast range and the looser estimate beyond it.
Saxony marks every figure on that portal as unchecked raw data, so read it as the authority's working picture rather than a settled record.
Open the official Dresden forecast (German) (opens in a new tab)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)
Dresden
Day 6 · Tuesday 22 September · Germany
This is a real reading. There is nothing published to measure it against.
55 cm measured
Nothing is published for this stretch to measure the reading against.
| Water level now | 55 cm |
|---|---|
| Normal for 22 September | 106 cm |
Water levels are measured at the Dresden gauge – German federal waterways gauge service (PEGELONLINE).
What to check on the official page: BfG's daily forecast is a Rhine product and does not reach the Elbe. Saxony's own flood centre forecasts Dresden, and the button below opens that page.
Scroll past the measured table to the one headed Vorhersage vom. It gives a level in centimetres every three hours for about three days, with the hour the run was made printed at the top. The chart above it shades the forecast range and the looser estimate beyond it.
Saxony marks every figure on that portal as unchecked raw data, so read it as the authority's working picture rather than a settled record.
Open the official Dresden forecast (German) (opens in a new tab)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)
Bad Schandau
Day 7 · Wednesday 23 September · Germany
This is a real reading. There is nothing published to measure it against.
55 cm measured
Nothing is published for this stretch to measure the reading against.
| Water level now | 55 cm |
|---|---|
| Normal for 23 September | 107 cm |
Water levels are measured at the Dresden gauge – German federal waterways gauge service (PEGELONLINE).
What to check on the official page: BfG's daily forecast is a Rhine product and does not reach the Elbe. Saxony's own flood centre forecasts Dresden, and the button below opens that page.
Scroll past the measured table to the one headed Vorhersage vom. It gives a level in centimetres every three hours for about three days, with the hour the run was made printed at the top. The chart above it shades the forecast range and the looser estimate beyond it.
Saxony marks every figure on that portal as unchecked raw data, so read it as the authority's working picture rather than a settled record.
Open the official Dresden forecast (German) (opens in a new tab)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)
Děčín; Prague
Day 8 · Thursday 24 September · Czechia
This is a real reading. There is nothing published to measure it against.
55 cm measured
Nothing is published for this stretch to measure the reading against.
| Water level now | 55 cm |
|---|---|
| Normal for 24 September | 109 cm |
Water levels are measured at the Dresden gauge – German federal waterways gauge service (PEGELONLINE).
What to check on the official page: BfG's daily forecast is a Rhine product and does not reach the Elbe. Saxony's own flood centre forecasts Dresden, and the button below opens that page.
Scroll past the measured table to the one headed Vorhersage vom. It gives a level in centimetres every three hours for about three days, with the hour the run was made printed at the top. The chart above it shades the forecast range and the looser estimate beyond it.
Saxony marks every figure on that portal as unchecked raw data, so read it as the authority's working picture rather than a settled record.
Open the official Dresden forecast (German) (opens in a new tab)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)
Prague
Day 9–10 · Fri 25 – Sat 26 September · Czechia
The ship does not sail on this day. Your itinerary spends it on land, so no river level applies to it.
Not sailing
Your itinerary spends this day on land, so the ship does not sail and no river level applies to it.
Your itinerary spends this day on land. The ship is not sailing, so no river level applies to it and no waterway notice is about it.
What the statuses mean — each one is measured against the level we estimate this ship needs
- Far below the lineThe measured level is under half of Waterlogged's reference line for this ship.
- Below the lineThe measured level is below Waterlogged's reference line for this ship.
- Above the lineThe measured level is at or above Waterlogged's reference line for this ship.
- 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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