Pegel Prerow — Ostsee
The Ostsee at Prerow was 515 cm at 04:51 CEST on 24 October 2026, up 3 cm in 24 hours.
Last 7 days
Lowest 499 cm · highest 590 cm · 10078 readings
Other gauges on the Ostsee
Lt Kiel 527 cm Warnemünde 514 cm Althagen 527 cm Barth 521 cm Barhöft 516 cm Stralsund 515 cm Stahlbrode 511 cm Neuendorf Hafen 521 cm Kloster 519 cm Wittower Fähre 514 cm Lauterbach 512 cm Sassnitz 512 cm Thiessow 509 cm Ruden 508 cm Greifswald Oie 509 cm Koserow 506 cm Greifswald-Wieck 504 cm Flensburg 538 cm Langballigau 540 cm Schleimünde Sp 532 cm Timmendorf Poel 520 cm Wismar-Baumhaus 516 cm Heiligenhafen 520 cm Kiel-Holtenau 523 cm Neustadt 516 cm Marienleuchte 520 cm Kappeln 534 cm Schleswig 533 cm Eckernförde 532 cm
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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.