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Hetton Le Hole water level

River gauge, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom

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Latest reading

Water level

0.05m Steady over the last 24 hours

-0.5 0.0 0.5

History

History
0.040.06mOct 13Oct 14Oct 16Oct 18Oct 200.040.06mOct 13Oct 16Oct 20
0.040.060.080.10mSep 20Sep 27Oct 4Oct 12Oct 190.040.060.080.10mSep 20Oct 4Oct 19
Water level

What this means

Hetton Le Hole reads 0.05 m as of 20 Oct 2026, 01:30 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 0.04 m and 0.10 m.

Over the past seven days the change adds up to +0.01 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
0.04 m – 0.10 m
Lowest and highest in 12 months
0.04 m – 0.05 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: 0.6 mm. Rain that falls upstream can take hours or days to show up at a river gauge.

17 Sat 11° 5° 0.3 mm Wind 17 km/h
18 Sun 11° 5° 0.7 mm, 56% Wind 13 km/h
19 Mon 14° 5° 0.1 mm, 75% Wind 23 km/h
20 Tue 12° 11° 1.1 mm, 37% Wind 26 km/h
21 Wed 10° 7° 16 mm, 45% Wind 28 km/h
22 Thu 11° 5° 2.4 mm, 37% Wind 28 km/h
23 Fri 9° 7° 34 mm, 73% Wind 40 km/h

Forecast: Open-Meteo

Sunrise 07:45 AM Sunset 05:58 PM Daylight 10 hr, 13 min First quarter 64%

Map

Nearby gauges

Gauge Level Compared with normal 24 hours Distance
Houghton Le SpringRiver gauge, Moors Burn 0.10 m Normal ±0 3.3 km
Chester-Le-StreetRiver gauge, River Wear 0.29 m Very low ±0 7.9 km
Durham New Elvet BridgeRiver gauge, River Wear 0.22 m Very low ±0 8.9 km
Burn HallRiver gauge, River Browney 0.11 m Normal ±0 13 km
Sunderland BridgeRiver gauge, River Wear 0.25 m Very low ±0 13 km
Team ValleyRiver gauge, River Team 0.21 m Low +0.01 m 15 km
TanfieldRiver gauge, River Team 0.22 m Low +0.02 m 17 km
Lanchester Front StreetRiver gauge, Smallhope Burn 0.23 m Normal ±0 19 km

Questions and answers

Is the river level the same as the depth of the water?

No. The reading is measured from a fixed zero mark at the gauge, so 0.05 m on the gauge does not mean the water is that deep.

What is the water level of Hetton Le Hole today?

On 20 Oct 2026, 01:30 BST, the water level was 0.05 m. Steady over the last 24 hours.

Is Hetton Le Hole rising or falling?

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

Is the level of Hetton Le Hole 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:024019
Coordinates
54.81873, -1.45517 (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

ParameterLast valueTime (UTC)Quality
Water level 0.05 m 2026-10-20 00:30 Provisional

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How to cite

Environment Agency: Hetton Le Hole (ea:024019). Accessed October 20, 2026 via Nivelmap, https://nivelmap.com/en/united-kingdom/tyne-and-wear/hetton-le-hole

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.