Holyhead water level

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

Tidal gauge, Wales, United Kingdom

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Latest reading

Water level

2.51m Down 0.84 m over the last 24 hours

Measured 17 Oct 2026, 23:15 BST (52 min ago)

History

7 days 30 days

Water level

What this means

The latest water level reported for Holyhead is 2.51 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.

The level is falling, down 0.84 m over the past 24 hours. Over the past 30 days it has moved between 0.74 m and 6.24 m.

Over the past seven days the change adds up to −3.39 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: 0.74 m – 6.24 m

Weather at the gauge

Rain in the last 3 days: 5.6 mm. Rain that falls upstream can take hours or days to show up at a river gauge.

17 Sat 13° 8° – Wind 24 km/h

18 Sun 13° 4° – Wind 13 km/h

19 Mon 14° 8° 0.5 mm, 20% Wind 20 km/h

20 Tue 13° 7° – Wind 12 km/h

21 Wed 11° 5° 4.8 mm, 63% Wind 39 km/h

22 Thu 13° 6° 7.5 mm, 87% Wind 23 km/h

23 Fri 10° 5° 25 mm, 86% Wind 41 km/h

Forecast: Open-Meteo

Sunrise 07:49 AM Sunset 06:20 PM Daylight 10 hr, 31 min First quarter 44%

Map

Nearby gauges

Gauge	Level	Compared with normal	24 hours	Distance
HolyheadTidal gauge	−0.54 m	No reference yet	−0.84 m	0.0 km
LlandudnoTidal gauge	2.45 m	No reference yet	−0.95 m	53 km
LlandudnoTidal gauge	−1.40 m	No reference yet	−0.95 m	53 km
BarmouthTidal gauge	2.92 m	No reference yet	−0.87 m	77 km
BarmouthTidal gauge	0.48 m	No reference yet	−0.87 m	77 km

Questions and answers

What is the water level of Holyhead today?

On 17 Oct 2026, 23:15 BST, the water level was 2.51 m. Down 0.84 m over the last 24 hours.

Is Holyhead rising or falling?

Down 0.84 m over the last 24 hours. Down 3.39 m over the last 7 days.

Is the level of Holyhead 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:E70524
Coordinates: 53.31394, -4.62043 (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	2.51 m	2026-10-17 22:15	Provisional

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How to cite

Environment Agency: Holyhead (ea:E70524). Accessed October 17, 2026 via Nivelmap, https://nivelmap.com/en/united-kingdom/wales/holyhead-e70524

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