Spiddal water level

Name: Spiddal 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, Galway, Ireland

Directions

Latest reading

Water level

3.40m Up 0.28 m over the last 24 hours

Measured 17 Oct 2026, 11:30 GMT+1 (18 min ago)

History

7 days

Water level

What this means

The Office of Public Works (waterlevel.ie) has Spiddal at 3.40 m. The agency publishes no normal range or warning level for this tidal gauge yet, so there is nothing to judge the number against.

It is on the way up, by 0.28 m over the past 24 hours. The 30-day range is 1.87 m – 3.85 m.

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

Weather at the gauge

Rain in the last 3 days: 19 mm. Rain that falls upstream can take hours or days to show up at a river gauge.

17 Sat 12° 5° – Wind 12 km/h

18 Sun 12° 5° – Wind 10 km/h

19 Mon 12° 4° – Wind 10 km/h

20 Tue 14° 7° 3.4 mm, 47% Wind 20 km/h

21 Wed 11° 7° 10 mm, 54% Wind 32 km/h

22 Thu 11° 6° 7.5 mm, 84% Wind 25 km/h

23 Fri 10° 5° 12 mm, 94% Wind 52 km/h

Forecast: Open-Meteo

Sunrise 08:08 AM Sunset 06:39 PM Daylight 10 hr, 31 min First quarter 39%

Map

Nearby gauges

Gauge	Level	Compared with normal	24 hours	Distance
ShannagurraunTidal gauge, Owenboliskey	1.33 m	Normal	−0.09 m	3.8 km
DanganRiver gauge, Corrib	0.27 m	Normal	−0.02 m	17 km
Quincentennial BridgeRiver gauge, Corrib	0.66 m	Normal	−0.02 m	17 km
Galway Barrage D/SRiver gauge, Corrib	1.47 m	Normal	−0.02 m	17 km
Galway BarrageRiver gauge, Corrib	0.21 m	Normal	−0.01 m	17 km
AnglighamLake, L Corrib	0.77 m	Normal	−0.02 m	18 km
OughterardRiver gauge, Owenriff	1.34 m	Normal	−0.03 m	21 km
Annaghdown PierTidal gauge, L. Corrib	0.76 m	Normal	−0.01 m	22 km

Questions and answers

What is the water level of Spiddal today?

On 17 Oct 2026, 11:30 GMT+1, the water level was 3.40 m. Up 0.28 m over the last 24 hours.

Is Spiddal rising or falling?

Up 0.28 m over the last 24 hours.

Is the level of Spiddal normal?

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

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:31063 (Agency page)
Coordinates: 53.24042, -9.30905 (WGS84)
Vertical datum: OD Malin Head OSGM15
Gauge zero: -2.964 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	3.40 m	2026-10-17 10:30	Provisional

Download

Embed this gauge

Add a live card for this gauge to your website. It updates on its own and links back here.

<iframe src="https://nivelmap.com/embed/24054?lang=en" width="360" height="230" style="border:0;max-width:100%" loading="lazy" title="Spiddal water level"></iframe>

How to cite

Office of Public Works (waterlevel.ie): Spiddal (opw:31063). Accessed October 17, 2026 via Nivelmap, https://nivelmap.com/en/ireland/galway/spiddal

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