Bantry water level

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

Tidal gauge, Cork, Ireland

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Latest reading

Water level

1.34m Down 0.48 m over the last 24 hours

Measured 17 Oct 2026, 12:55 GMT+1 (15 min ago)

History

7 days

Water level

What this means

Bantry reads 1.34 m as of 17 Oct 2026, 12:55 GMT+1. There is no published reference for this tidal gauge yet, so we can't say whether that is high or low for the season.

It has dropped 0.48 m over the past 24 hours. In the last month it has stayed between 0.84 m and 2.43 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: 3.90 m

Weather at the gauge

Rain in the last 3 days: 12 mm. Rain that falls upstream can take hours or days to show up at a river gauge.

17 Sat 13° 5° – Wind 12 km/h

18 Sun 14° 5° – Wind 7 km/h

19 Mon 13° 3° – Wind 10 km/h

20 Tue 14° 6° 6.3 mm, 61% Wind 30 km/h

21 Wed 11° 7° 2.1 mm, 53% Wind 40 km/h

22 Thu 13° 6° 1.5 mm, 88% Wind 23 km/h

23 Fri 10° 6° 40 mm, 88% Wind 47 km/h

Forecast: Open-Meteo

Sunrise 08:06 AM Sunset 06:42 PM Daylight 10 hr, 36 min First quarter 40%

Map

Nearby gauges

Gauge	Level	Compared with normal	24 hours	Distance
Bantry LibraryTidal gauge, Mill River	0.40 m	Normal	±0	1.1 km
Bridge StreetRiver gauge, Finnihy	0.25 m	Normal	−0.02 m	24 km
KillowenRiver gauge, Keelnagower	0.26 m	Normal	±0	24 km
Orchard GroveRiver gauge, Finnihy	0.22 m	Normal	−0.03 m	24 km
Long Bridge DunmanwayRiver gauge, Bandon	−0.26 m	Normal	−0.01 m	26 km
Ardcahan BridgeRiver gauge, Bandon	0.20 m	Normal	−0.02 m	26 km
Bealaboy BridgeRiver gauge, Bandon	0.38 m	Normal	−0.02 m	27 km
Cooleen BridgeRiver gauge, Toon	−0.02 m	Normal	−0.02 m	34 km

Questions and answers

What is the water level of Bantry today?

On 17 Oct 2026, 12:55 GMT+1, the water level was 1.34 m. Down 0.48 m over the last 24 hours.

Is Bantry rising or falling?

Down 0.48 m over the last 24 hours.

Is the level of Bantry 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 Bantry?

The highest level on record is 3.90 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:21063 (Agency page)
Coordinates: 51.67876, -9.46523 (WGS84)
Vertical datum: OD Malin Head OSGM15
Gauge zero: -1.778 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	1.34 m	2026-10-17 11:55	Provisional

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How to cite

Office of Public Works (waterlevel.ie): Bantry (opw:21063). Accessed October 17, 2026 via Nivelmap, https://nivelmap.com/en/ireland/cork/bantry

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