Malin Head water level

Name: Malin Head 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, Donegal, Ireland

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Latest reading

Water level

3.25m Up 0.87 m over the last 24 hours

Measured 17 Oct 2026, 13:45 GMT+1 (24 min ago)

History

7 days

Water level

What this means

The latest water level reported for Malin Head is 3.25 m. The agency publishes no normal range or warning level for this tidal gauge yet, so there is nothing to judge the number against.

The water is rising: up 0.87 m over the past 24 hours. Over the past 30 days it has moved between 2.31 m and 3.67 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: 5.90 m

Weather at the gauge

Rain in the last 3 days: 21 mm. Rain that falls upstream can take hours or days to show up at a river gauge.

17 Sat 13° 7° – Wind 18 km/h

18 Sun 12° 5° – Wind 14 km/h

19 Mon 12° 9° – Wind 32 km/h

20 Tue 12° 10° – Wind 38 km/h

21 Wed 11° 8° 11 mm, 53% Wind 60 km/h

22 Thu 11° 10° 0.6 mm, 39% Wind 41 km/h

23 Fri 11° 5° 6.3 mm, 83% Wind 51 km/h

Forecast: Open-Meteo

Sunrise 08:04 AM Sunset 06:27 PM Daylight 10 hr, 24 min First quarter 40%

Map

Nearby gauges

Gauge	Level	Compared with normal	24 hours	Distance
BallyloskeyTidal gauge, Ballywilly Brook	0.60 m	Normal	−0.04 m	15 km
TullyarvanTidal gauge, Crana	0.48 m	Normal	−0.17 m	26 km
Burnfoot Pumping StationRiver gauge, Burnfoot	0.49 m	Normal	−0.03 m	34 km
AghawoneyRiver gauge, Leannan	1.50 m	Normal	−0.10 m	44 km
Gartan BridgeRiver gauge, Leannan	0.69 m	Normal	−0.07 m	54 km
New MillsTidal gauge, Swilly	0.40 m	Normal	−0.12 m	58 km
Sandy MillsRiver gauge, Deele	0.46 m	Normal	−0.10 m	61 km
BallybofeyRiver gauge, Finn (Donegal)	0.97 m	Normal	−0.38 m	70 km

Questions and answers

What is the water level of Malin Head today?

On 17 Oct 2026, 13:45 GMT+1, the water level was 3.25 m. Up 0.87 m over the last 24 hours.

Is Malin Head rising or falling?

Up 0.87 m over the last 24 hours.

Is the level of Malin Head 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 Malin Head?

The highest level on record is 5.90 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:40060 (Agency page)
Coordinates: 55.37169, -7.33441 (WGS84)
Vertical datum: OD Malin Head OSGM15
Gauge zero: -3.135 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	3.25 m	2026-10-17 12:45	Provisional

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How to cite

Office of Public Works (waterlevel.ie): Malin Head (opw:40060). Accessed October 17, 2026 via Nivelmap, https://nivelmap.com/en/ireland/donegal/malin-head

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