Shannon Airport water level

Name: Shannon Airport water level (Office of Public Works (waterlevel.ie))
Creator: Office of Public Works (waterlevel.ie)
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Estuary gauge, Shannon Estuary, Clare, Ireland

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Latest reading

Water level

3.49m Up 0.60 m over the last 24 hours

Measured 18 Oct 2026, 00:00 GMT+1 (11 hours ago)

History

Not enough readings for a chart yet. History builds up with every update.

What this means

The latest water level reported for Shannon Airport is 3.49 m. The agency publishes no normal range or warning level for this estuary yet, so there is nothing to judge the number against.

The water is rising: up 0.60 m over the past 24 hours. Over the past 30 days it has moved between 1.02 m and 3.99 m.

The agency publishes no normal range for this gauge yet, so we show the trend only. How to read levels

Key numbers

Highest on record: 6.37 m

About the Shannon Estuary

The Shannon Estuary in Ireland is a large estuary where the River Shannon flows into the Atlantic Ocean. The estuary has Limerick City at its head and its seaward limits are marked by Loop Head to the north and Kerry Head to the south. The estuary defines the main boundary between County Kerry/County Limerick to the south and County Clare to the north.

Weather at the gauge

Rain in the last 3 days: 9.7 mm. Rain that falls upstream can take hours or days to show up at a river gauge.

17 Sat 13° 4° – Wind 11 km/h

18 Sun 13° 6° – Wind 8 km/h

19 Mon 12° 5° – Wind 16 km/h

20 Tue 15° 7° 15 mm, 75% Wind 28 km/h

21 Wed 11° 7° 1.5 mm, 69% Wind 22 km/h

22 Thu 13° 4° 4.4 mm, 87% Wind 15 km/h

23 Fri 11° 3° 2.8 mm, 97% Wind 27 km/h

Forecast: Open-Meteo

Sunrise 08:07 AM Sunset 06:36 PM Daylight 10 hr, 29 min First quarter 48%

Map

Other gauges on the Shannon Estuary

Gauge	Level	Compared with normal	24 hours	Distance
FoynesEstuary gauge, Shannon Estuary	3.60 m	No reference yet	+0.65 m	14 km
Limerick DockEstuary gauge, Shannon Estuary	5.35 m	No reference yet	+0.38 m	19 km

Nearby gauges

Gauge	Level	Compared with normal	24 hours	Distance
Owenogarney Railway BridgeRiver gauge, Owenogarney	0.79 m	Normal	−0.02 m	12 km
CarnellyRiver gauge, Manus	0.32 m	Normal	±0	14 km
RathkealeRiver gauge, Deel	0.76 m	Normal	−0.07 m	18 km
Inch Bridge ClaureenRiver gauge, Claureen	0.30 m	Normal	−0.06 m	18 km
CastlerobertsRiver gauge, Maigue	0.82 m	Normal	−0.02 m	18 km
Victoria BridgeEstuary gauge, Fergus	1.63 m	Normal	−0.02 m	20 km
Rossbrien Railway BridgeEstuary gauge, Ballinacurra	0.74 m	Normal	−0.02 m	20 km
BallycoreyRiver gauge, Fergus	1.08 m	Normal	±0	22 km

Questions and answers

What is the water level of Shannon Airport today?

On 18 Oct 2026, 00:00 GMT+1, the water level was 3.49 m. Up 0.60 m over the last 24 hours.

Is Shannon Airport rising or falling?

Up 0.60 m over the last 24 hours.

Is the level of Shannon Airport normal?

The agency publishes no normal range for this gauge yet, so we show the trend only.

What is the highest water level ever recorded at Shannon Airport?

The highest level on record is 6.37 m.

How often is this data updated?

The Office of Public Works (waterlevel.ie) publishes a new reading every 15 minutes. This page refreshes within minutes of each update.

Where does this data come from?

The values come directly from the Office of Public Works (waterlevel.ie), the official operator of this gauge, and are published under CC BY 4.0. We do not estimate or model live values.

For specialists

Station codes, datum, parameters, data quality and downloads

Operator: Office of Public Works (waterlevel.ie)
Station code: opw:27069 (Agency page)
Coordinates: 52.67873, -8.91793 (WGS84)
Vertical datum: OD Malin Head OSGM15
Gauge zero: -2.709 m
Update interval: every 15 minutes
Licence: CC BY 4.0. Contains Irish Public Sector Information licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence (source waterlevel.ie - provided by the Office of Public Works)

Published series

Parameter	Last value	Time (UTC)	Quality
Water level	3.49 m	2026-10-17 23:00	Provisional

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Office of Public Works (waterlevel.ie): Shannon Airport (opw:27069). Accessed October 18, 2026 via Nivelmap, https://nivelmap.com/en/ireland/clare/shannon-airport

How we check values

Each reading is stored as published. We hold back values that jump faster than physically plausible and show the measurement time with every value.

Readings are provisional, can be delayed or wrong and are not a flood warning. Read the disclaimer