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Havant water level

River gauge, Hermitage Stream, Hampshire, United Kingdom

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Right now

Latest reading

Surface elevation

5.05m Steady over the last 24 hours

4.5 5.0 5.5

History

History
5.15.2mOct 12Oct 13Oct 15Oct 17Oct 185.15.2mOct 12Oct 15Oct 18
5.25.4mSep 19Sep 26Oct 3Oct 11Oct 185.25.4mSep 19Oct 4Oct 18
Surface elevation

What this means

The Hermitage Stream at Havant reads 5.05 m as of 19 Oct 2026, 00:15 BST. The agency publishes no normal range or warning level for this river yet, so there is nothing to judge the number against.

The level has held steady over the past 24 hours. In the last month it has stayed between 5.04 m and 5.47 m.

Over the past seven days the change adds up to 0.00 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
5.04 m – 5.47 m
Lowest and highest in 12 months
5.04 m – 5.10 m

Fishing and paddling

Watch the direction of travel. A rising river after rain behaves very differently from one that is dropping and clearing.

Flood alerts and warnings come from the Environment Agency.

Weather at the gauge

Rain in the last 3 days: 4.1 mm. Rain that falls upstream can take hours or days to show up at a river gauge.

17 Sat 14° 6° – Wind 19 km/h
18 Sun 14° 8° 1.4 mm, 40% Wind 20 km/h
19 Mon 14° 8° 2.3 mm, 53% Wind 16 km/h
20 Tue 13° 10° 2.6 mm, 53% Wind 14 km/h
21 Wed 14° 8° 3.3 mm, 61% Wind 26 km/h
22 Thu 13° 6° 10 mm, 72% Wind 22 km/h
23 Fri 14° 8° 30 mm, 78% Wind 37 km/h

Forecast: Open-Meteo

Sunrise 07:32 AM Sunset 06:08 PM Daylight 10 hr, 35 min First quarter 54%

Map

Nearby gauges

Gauge Level Compared with normal 24 hours Distance
West StreetRiver gauge, River Lavant 7.07 m Normal ±0 0.7 km
Crosslands DriveRiver gauge, River Lavant 0.12 m Normal ±0 1.2 km
EmsworthRiver gauge, West Brook 1.84 m Normal −0.03 m 3.7 km
Emsworth Mill Pond SluicesRiver gauge 1.87 m Normal −0.03 m 4.0 km
WestbourneRiver gauge, River Ems 0.05 m Low ±0 4.5 km
Salterns PSRiver gauge −1.18 m Normal +0.01 m 6.1 km
DenmeadRiver gauge, River Wallington 33.18 m Normal −0.02 m 6.2 km
Bosham Moreton RoadRiver gauge, Bosham Stream 0.21 m Normal ±0 9.8 km

Questions and answers

Is Havant really 5.05 m deep?

No. 5.05 m is the height of the water surface above sea level (or the agency's vertical datum), not the depth of the water.

What is the water level of Havant today?

On 19 Oct 2026, 00:15 BST, the surface elevation was 5.05 m. Steady over the last 24 hours.

Is Havant rising or falling?

Steady over the last 24 hours. Steady over the last 7 days.

Is the level of Havant 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:E11310 (Agency page)
Coordinates
50.85623, -0.99177 (WGS84)
Vertical datum
ODN
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

ParameterLast valueTime (UTC)Quality
Surface elevation 5.05 m 2026-10-18 23:15 Provisional

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How to cite

Environment Agency: Havant (ea:E11310). Accessed October 18, 2026 via Nivelmap, https://nivelmap.com/en/united-kingdom/hampshire/havant

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.