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Nuremberg → Basel · Viking Modi

Viking River Cruises · Rhine & Main Explorer · 8 September18 September 2026

Latest readings: Monday 7 September 2026.

The ports of Nuremberg → Basel, in the order this sailing calls at them This route map shows the water status at each port on Nuremberg → Basel. 0 far below our reference line, 0 below it, 0 above it, 0 on lock-controlled reaches, 8 with no line to compare, 0 on stretches we watch no gauge on and 1 with no river transit recorded. Every city also appears in a text list below the map. NurembergDay 1–2 BambergDay 3 WürzburgDay 4 MarktheidenfeldDay 5 FrankfurtDay 6 BreisachDay 9 · managed BaselDay 10–11 · managed On this map Not measured here Water level managed

Tap a city for its water, or Tab then Enter. Straight lines join cities on different rivers.

Nuremberg

Day 1–2 · Tue 8 – Wed 9 September · Germany

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.

Bamberg

Day 3 · Thursday 10 September · Germany

No line published

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

142 cm measured

Nothing is published for this stretch to measure the reading against.

Water level now142 cm

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

Würzburg

Day 4 · Friday 11 September · Germany

No line published

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

142 cm measured

Nothing is published for this stretch to measure the reading against.

Water level now142 cm

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

Marktheidenfeld

Day 5 · Saturday 12 September · Germany

No line published

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

142 cm measured

Nothing is published for this stretch to measure the reading against.

Water level now142 cm

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

Frankfurt

Day 6 · Sunday 13 September · Germany

No line published

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

142 cm measured

Nothing is published for this stretch to measure the reading against.

Water level now142 cm

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

Baden-Baden

Day 7 · Monday 14 September · Germany

No line published

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

333 cm measured

Nothing is published for this stretch to measure the reading against.

Water level now333 cm

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

Your call here is 7 days away — beyond this forecast's reach

What to check on the official page: BfG does not forecast Maxau. Its daily fourteen-day product covers seven Rhine gauges further downstream, and Maxau is not one of them. The service that does forecast this gauge is Baden-Württemberg's own flood forecast centre, and ELWIS sends you there too.

On that page choose the Vorhersage tab. A solid line runs about two days ahead in centimetres. After that the chart switches to a wider trend estimate with a shaded band around it and a no-rain scenario, reaching roughly a fortnight.

Nothing on that page reaches 14 September yet. The forecast line stops about two days out, and the trend estimate past it is a range, not a date. Come back nearer the day.

Whichever line you read, it is the authority's, not ours. Waterlogged reports measured levels and the record behind them, and publishes no forward level of its own.

Open the official Maxau forecast (German) (opens in a new tab)

Read the full guide for this port →

Strasbourg

Day 8 · Tuesday 15 September · France

No line published

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

333 cm measured

Nothing is published for this stretch to measure the reading against.

Water level now333 cm

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

Your call here is 8 days away — beyond this forecast's reach

What to check on the official page: BfG does not forecast Maxau. Its daily fourteen-day product covers seven Rhine gauges further downstream, and Maxau is not one of them. The service that does forecast this gauge is Baden-Württemberg's own flood forecast centre, and ELWIS sends you there too.

On that page choose the Vorhersage tab. A solid line runs about two days ahead in centimetres. After that the chart switches to a wider trend estimate with a shaded band around it and a no-rain scenario, reaching roughly a fortnight.

Nothing on that page reaches 15 September yet. The forecast line stops about two days out, and the trend estimate past it is a range, not a date. Come back nearer the day.

Whichever line you read, it is the authority's, not ours. Waterlogged reports measured levels and the record behind them, and publishes no forward level of its own.

Open the official Maxau forecast (German) (opens in a new tab)

Read the full guide for this port →

Breisach

Day 9 · Wednesday 16 September · Germany

No line published

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

333 cm measured

Nothing is published for this stretch to measure the reading against.

Water level now333 cm

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

Your call here is 9 days away — beyond this forecast's reach

What to check on the official page: BfG does not forecast Maxau. Its daily fourteen-day product covers seven Rhine gauges further downstream, and Maxau is not one of them. The service that does forecast this gauge is Baden-Württemberg's own flood forecast centre, and ELWIS sends you there too.

On that page choose the Vorhersage tab. A solid line runs about two days ahead in centimetres. After that the chart switches to a wider trend estimate with a shaded band around it and a no-rain scenario, reaching roughly a fortnight.

Nothing on that page reaches 16 September yet. The forecast line stops about two days out, and the trend estimate past it is a range, not a date. Come back nearer the day.

Whichever line you read, it is the authority's, not ours. Waterlogged reports measured levels and the record behind them, and publishes no forward level of its own.

Open the official Maxau forecast (German) (opens in a new tab)

Read the full guide for this port →

Basel

Day 10–11 · Thu 17 – Fri 18 September · Switzerland

No line published

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

333 cm measured

Nothing is published for this stretch to measure the reading against.

Water level now333 cm

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

Your call here is 10 days away — beyond this forecast's reach

What to check on the official page: BfG does not forecast Maxau. Its daily fourteen-day product covers seven Rhine gauges further downstream, and Maxau is not one of them. The service that does forecast this gauge is Baden-Württemberg's own flood forecast centre, and ELWIS sends you there too.

On that page choose the Vorhersage tab. A solid line runs about two days ahead in centimetres. After that the chart switches to a wider trend estimate with a shaded band around it and a no-rain scenario, reaching roughly a fortnight.

Nothing on that page reaches 17 September yet. The forecast line stops about two days out, and the trend estimate past it is a range, not a date. Come back nearer the day.

Whichever line you read, it is the authority's, not ours. Waterlogged reports measured levels and the record behind them, and publishes no forward level of its own.

Open the official Maxau forecast (German) (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 this ship 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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