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Wick water level

Tidal gauge, Scotland, United Kingdom

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Surface elevation

-0.16m Down 0.47 m over the last 24 hours

-0.5 0.0

History

History
-1012mOct 11Oct 12Oct 14Oct 16Oct 17-1012mOct 11Oct 14Oct 17
-1012mSep 18Sep 25Oct 3Oct 10Oct 17-1012mSep 18Oct 3Oct 17
Surface elevation

What this means

The Environment Agency has Wick at −0.16 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 still going down, by 0.47 m over the past 24 hours. The 30-day range is −1.11 m – 2.28 m.

Over the past seven days the change adds up to −2.22 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
−1.11 m – 2.28 m

Weather at the gauge

Rain in the last 3 days: 4.0 mm. Rain that falls upstream can take hours or days to show up at a river gauge.

17 Sat 11° 4° 0.2 mm Wind 19 km/h
18 Sun 10° 4° – Wind 19 km/h
19 Mon 12° 8° – Wind 28 km/h
20 Tue 12° 10° 5.6 mm, 43% Wind 30 km/h
21 Wed 11° 7° 18 mm, 61% Wind 25 km/h
22 Thu 10° 3° 0.6 mm, 45% Wind 23 km/h
23 Fri 10° 0° – Wind 19 km/h

Forecast: Open-Meteo

Sunrise 07:55 AM Sunset 06:01 PM Daylight 10 hr, 6 min First quarter 44%

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Nearby gauges

Gauge Level Compared with normal 24 hours Distance
WickTidal gauge 1.55 m No reference yet −0.47 m 0.0 km

Questions and answers

Is Wick really −0.16 m deep?

No. −0.16 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 Wick today?

On 18 Oct 2026, 00:00 BST, the surface elevation was −0.16 m. Down 0.47 m over the last 24 hours.

Is Wick rising or falling?

Down 0.47 m over the last 24 hours. Down 2.22 m over the last 7 days.

Is the level of Wick 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:E70639
Coordinates
58.44098, -3.08631 (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 −0.16 m 2026-10-17 23:00 Provisional

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How to cite

Environment Agency: Wick (ea:E70639). Accessed October 18, 2026 via Nivelmap, https://nivelmap.com/en/united-kingdom/scotland/wick-e70639

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.