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Avon Weir water level

River gauge, Wiltshire, United Kingdom

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Latest reading

Surface elevation

49.11m Up 0.02 m over the last 24 hours

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History

History
49.1049.15mOct 12Oct 13Oct 15Oct 17Oct 1949.1049.15mOct 12Oct 15Oct 19
49.1049.1549.20mSep 19Sep 26Oct 4Oct 11Oct 1949.1049.1549.20mSep 19Oct 4Oct 19
Surface elevation

What this means

Avon Weir reads 49.11 m as of 19 Oct 2026, 01:45 BST. The agency publishes no normal range or warning level for this river yet, so there is nothing to judge the number against.

It has risen 0.02 m over the past 24 hours. In the last month it has stayed between 49.08 m and 49.21 m.

Over the past seven days the change adds up to −0.02 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
49.08 m – 49.21 m
Lowest and highest in 12 months
49.11 m – 49.16 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: 4.6 mm. Rain that falls upstream can take hours or days to show up at a river gauge.

18 Sun 13° 7° 0.2 mm, 33% Wind 23 km/h
19 Mon 14° 6° 3.5 mm, 99% Wind 18 km/h
20 Tue 10° 6° 9.7 mm, 92% Wind 12 km/h
21 Wed 11° 4° 14 mm, 59% Wind 26 km/h
22 Thu 11° 6° 2.5 mm, 80% Wind 20 km/h
23 Fri 12° 7° 29 mm, 89% Wind 47 km/h
24 Sat 14° 6° 0.6 mm, 54% Wind 27 km/h

Forecast: Open-Meteo

Sunrise 07:39 AM Sunset 06:09 PM Daylight 10 hr, 29 min First quarter 54%

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Nearby gauges

Gauge Level Compared with normal 24 hours Distance
Avon WeirRiver gauge 50.48 m Very low +0.02 m 0.0 km
SeagryRiver gauge 53.42 m Normal −0.01 m 1.2 km
Avon MillRiver gauge 47.71 m Very low +0.04 m 1.7 km
Great SomerfordRiver gauge, River Avon 0.14 m Very low ±0 4.2 km
DauntseyRiver gauge, Dauntsey Brook 0.03 m Very low −0.01 m 5.1 km
RodbourneRiver gauge, Gauze Brook 0.04 m Low ±0 5.1 km
StanleyRiver gauge, River Marden 0.36 m Very low ±0 6.2 km
Chippenham GateRiver gauge 43.15 m Very low +0.01 m 7.0 km

Questions and answers

Is Avon Weir really 49.11 m deep?

No. 49.11 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 Avon Weir today?

On 19 Oct 2026, 01:45 BST, the surface elevation was 49.11 m. Up 0.02 m over the last 24 hours.

Is Avon Weir rising or falling?

Up 0.02 m over the last 24 hours. Down 0.02 m over the last 7 days.

Is the level of Avon Weir 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:531166
Coordinates
51.51169, -2.06655 (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 49.11 m 2026-10-19 00:45 Provisional

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How to cite

Environment Agency: Avon Weir (ea:531166). Accessed October 19, 2026 via Nivelmap, https://nivelmap.com/en/united-kingdom/wiltshire/avon-weir

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.