Gauge Maxau: current water level and draft

Rhine · km 362

Measurement299cm05:15 · −8 cm/24hRule of thumb—cmDraft—cm

Water level at the Maxau gauge

On 25/10/2026 at 05:15 the Maxau gauge read 299 cm, 8 cm lower than 24 hours earlier. Source: PEGELONLINE (WSV).

Gauge Maxau is on the Rhine at kilometre 362, on the km 335–384 stretch.

Fairway depth and rule of thumb

The GlW is 372 cm and the fairway depth maintained below it (TuGlW) is 210 cm; after deducting 30 cm of safety margin the official rule of thumb comes out at Maxau -192. In practice Maxau -180 is used here, +12 cm against the official rule.

The fairway depth below GlW is what counts as long as no Fehltiefen are reported. Fehltiefen (shortfalls in fairway depth) are published on ELWIS Fehltiefen. The safety margin is not a statutory value and has to be taken on top of the reduced fairway depth listed there.

High water: Marke I and Marke II

At high water Marke I is at 620 cm and Marke II, above which the waterway closes, at 750 cm.

Forecasts and neighbouring gauges

This gauge has 3 forecast sources: the 2-day forecast from the Hochwasserzentrale Rheinland-Pfalz (red), the 10-day forecast from the Hochwasservorhersagezentrale Baden-Württemberg (yellow) and the 6-week forecast from the BAfG (blue, set the time range to 6 weeks to see it). Upstream lies Iffezheim, downstream Speyer.

Reference planes

The reference planes at the Maxau gauge, evaluated at the gauge's position.

GlW372 cm PNP
GlW 2022
Source: WSV, GlW 2022

Gauge zero: 97.721 m NHN (DHHN2016)

Warning: HVZ Baden-Württemberg forecast

Warning. The forecast may contain inaccuracies. The forecast data for this gauge is (partly) sourced from the Hochwasservorhersagezentrale Baden-Württemberg. The small chart you see when clicking the hyperlink for this gauge is the only format in which this public authority publishes its forecast. Unfortunately, the digitisation has only resulted in a very low‑resolution image. The algorithm that converts that image back into numeric values for this table may sometimes be wrong because it must OCR axis labels that are also low resolution, and cannot be guaranteed 100% correct. Always verify the original chart if the numbers appear implausible.

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