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Nuremberg → Basel · Viking Modi

Viking River Cruises · Rhine & Main Explorer · 28 September8 October 2026

Latest readings: Sunday 6 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 · Mon 28 – Tue 29 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 · Wednesday 30 September · Germany

No line published

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

140 cm measured

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

Water level now140 cm

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

Würzburg

Day 4 · Thursday 1 October · Germany

No line published

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

140 cm measured

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

Water level now140 cm

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

Marktheidenfeld

Day 5 · Friday 2 October · Germany

No line published

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

140 cm measured

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

Water level now140 cm

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

Frankfurt

Day 6 · Saturday 3 October · Germany

No line published

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

140 cm measured

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

Water level now140 cm

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

Baden-Baden

Day 7 · Sunday 4 October · Germany

No line published

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

335 cm measured

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

Water level now335 cm

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

Your call here is 28 days away — beyond the daily forecast

What to check on the official page: Nothing published today can tell you the level on 4 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 28 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 Maxau's own sheet directly. Find the week beginning 28 September.

From 20 September, this port will be fourteen days away. The daily forecast will then reach your date, and this block will switch itself over to it.

Open the six-week outlook for Maxau (PDF, German) (opens in a new tab)

Read the full guide for this port →

Strasbourg

Day 8 · Monday 5 October · France

No line published

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

335 cm measured

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

Water level now335 cm

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

Your call here is 29 days away — beyond the daily forecast

What to check on the official page: Nothing published today can tell you the level on 5 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 29 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 Maxau's own sheet directly. Find the week beginning 5 October.

From 21 September, this port will be fourteen days away. The daily forecast will then reach your date, and this block will switch itself over to it.

Open the six-week outlook for Maxau (PDF, German) (opens in a new tab)

Read the full guide for this port →

Breisach

Day 9 · Tuesday 6 October · Germany

No line published

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

335 cm measured

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

Water level now335 cm

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

Your call here is 30 days away — beyond the daily forecast

What to check on the official page: Nothing published today can tell you the level on 6 October. Germany's federal hydrology institute. It publishes the official water-level forecasts and outlooks.'s daily forecast only reaches fourteen days ahead. Your call here is 30 days away. We have picked the product that does reach it, so you do not have to.

That product is BfG's six-week outlook. It is not a daily prediction. It shows likely ranges for each week. Each range is where that week's level is expected to fall, with the odds attached. The ranges come from many past-weather what-if runs, not from a single-line prediction.

The button below opens Maxau's own sheet directly. Find the week beginning 5 October.

From 22 September, this port will be fourteen days away. The daily forecast will then reach your date, and this block will switch itself over to it.

Open the six-week outlook for Maxau (PDF, German) (opens in a new tab)

Read the full guide for this port →

Basel

Day 10–11 · Wed 7 – Thu 8 October · Switzerland

No line published

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

335 cm measured

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

Water level now335 cm

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

Your call here is 31 days away — beyond the daily forecast

What to check on the official page: Nothing published today can tell you the level on 7 October. Germany's federal hydrology institute. It publishes the official water-level forecasts and outlooks.'s daily forecast only reaches fourteen days ahead. Your call here is 31 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 Maxau's own sheet directly. Find the week beginning 5 October.

From 23 September, this port will be fourteen days away. The daily forecast will then reach your date, and this block will switch itself over to it.

Open the six-week outlook for Maxau (PDF, 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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