Weymouth water level

Name: Weymouth water level (Environment Agency)
Creator: Environment Agency
License: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

Tidal gauge, Dorset, United Kingdom

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Latest reading

Water level

0.98m Down 0.31 m over the last 24 hours

Measured 17 Oct 2026, 20:30 BST (55 min ago)

History

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Water level

What this means

The Environment Agency has Weymouth at 0.98 m. 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 is still going down, by 0.31 m over the past 24 hours. The 30-day range is 0.26 m – 2.67 m.

Over the past seven days the change adds up to −1.49 m.

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

Key numbers

Lowest and highest in 30 days: 0.26 m – 2.67 m

Weather at the gauge

Rain in the last 3 days: 7.6 mm. Rain that falls upstream can take hours or days to show up at a river gauge.

17 Sat 15° 8° – Wind 22 km/h

18 Sun 14° 7° 0.3 mm Wind 22 km/h

19 Mon 14° 9° 1.0 mm, 69% Wind 25 km/h

20 Tue 14° 10° 4.2 mm, 69% Wind 17 km/h

21 Wed 16° 8° 0.9 mm, 75% Wind 32 km/h

22 Thu 14° 6° 19 mm, 86% Wind 24 km/h

23 Fri 13° 9° 31 mm, 88% Wind 44 km/h

Forecast: Open-Meteo

Sunrise 07:36 AM Sunset 06:16 PM Daylight 10 hr, 40 min First quarter 43%

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Nearby gauges

Gauge	Level	Compared with normal	24 hours	Distance
Preston Fisherbridge RlRiver gauge	0.07 m	Normal	±0	4.6 km
BroadweyRiver gauge, River Wey	0.15 m	Very low	±0	5.3 km
Bank BarrowGroundwater well	44.90 m	Low	−0.01 m	6.6 km
UpweyRiver gauge, River Wey	0.13 m	Normal	+0.02 m	6.8 km
Upwey CulvertRiver gauge, River Wey	−0.02 m	Lowest on record	±0	6.8 km
Ashton FarmGroundwater well	63.68 m	Lowest on record	−0.01 m	9.4 km
Louds MillRiver gauge, River Frome	0.07 m	Low	±0	12 km
Winterbourne SteepletonRiver gauge	0.05 m	Very low	±0	12 km

Questions and answers

What is the water level of Weymouth today?

On 17 Oct 2026, 20:30 BST, the water level was 0.98 m. Down 0.31 m over the last 24 hours.

Is Weymouth rising or falling?

Down 0.31 m over the last 24 hours. Down 1.49 m over the last 7 days.

Is the level of Weymouth normal?

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

How often is this data updated?

The Environment Agency 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 Environment Agency, the official operator of this gauge, and are published under the Open Government Licence v3.0. We do not estimate or model live values.

For specialists

Station codes, datum, parameters, data quality and downloads

Operator: Environment Agency
Station code: ea:E72024
Coordinates: 50.60850, -2.44794 (WGS84)
Vertical datum: station datum
Update interval: every 15 minutes
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains Environment Agency data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0

Published series

Parameter	Last value	Time (UTC)	Quality
Water level	0.98 m	2026-10-17 19:30	Provisional

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How to cite

Environment Agency: Weymouth (ea:E72024). Accessed October 17, 2026 via Nivelmap, https://nivelmap.com/en/united-kingdom/dorset/weymouth-e72024

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