Pegel Heiligenhafen — Ostsee
The Ostsee at Heiligenhafen was 520 cm at 05:39 CEST on 24 October 2026, up 30 cm in 24 hours. That is within the normal range.
Last 7 days
Lowest 489 cm · highest 602 cm · 10076 readings
Other gauges on the Ostsee
Lt Kiel 525 cm Warnemünde 514 cm Althagen 527 cm Barth 521 cm Barhöft 516 cm Stralsund 514 cm Stahlbrode 511 cm Neuendorf Hafen 520 cm Kloster 518 cm Wittower Fähre 514 cm Lauterbach 512 cm Sassnitz 515 cm Thiessow 510 cm Ruden 508 cm Greifswald Oie 509 cm Koserow 507 cm Greifswald-Wieck 505 cm Flensburg 538 cm Langballigau 536 cm Schleimünde Sp 529 cm Timmendorf Poel 518 cm Wismar-Baumhaus 512 cm Kiel-Holtenau 522 cm Neustadt 513 cm Marienleuchte 522 cm Kappeln 532 cm Schleswig 534 cm Eckernförde 527 cm Prerow 516 cm
River km 123.0 · Standort Lübeck · map ↗
Reading a gauge
- The number is not the depth. It is measured from a fixed gauge zero, so the shipping channel holds more water than the reading suggests.
- Low means below the gauge's mean low water (MNW); high means above its mean high water (MHW). Flood warnings come from each German state's flood centre.
- On the Rhine, barges load by the Kaub gauge in the Middle Rhine gorge; as it falls they carry less and freight costs rise.
- Swimming in the Rhine is dangerous at any level: strong currents and ship wash pull swimmers under.
What this page shows, and what it misses
Gauges on Germany's federal waterways, as published by the Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration every 15 minutes. These are raw readings ("Rohdaten") that can still be corrected. Small rivers run by the German states are not in this network — for those and for flood warnings, use your state's Hochwasserzentrale.
Data: Wasserstraßen- und Schifffahrtsverwaltung des Bundes (WSV), PEGELONLINE, licence DL-DE→Zero-2.0.