Bournemouth water level

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

Tidal gauge, Dorset, United Kingdom

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Latest reading

Water level

1.80m Up 0.02 m over the last 24 hours

Measured 18 Oct 2026, 05:15 BST (1 hour ago)

History

7 days 30 days

Water level

What this means

The latest water level reported for Bournemouth is 1.80 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 water is rising: up 0.02 m over the past 24 hours. Over the past 30 days it has moved between 0.48 m and 2.61 m.

Over the past seven days the change adds up to +1.14 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: 0.48 m – 2.61 m
Lowest and highest in 12 months: 1.53 m – 1.82 m

Weather at the gauge

Rain in the last 3 days: 5.0 mm. Rain that falls upstream can take hours or days to show up at a river gauge.

18 Sun 13° 7° – Wind 20 km/h

19 Mon 14° 8° 0.3 mm, 87% Wind 17 km/h

20 Tue 13° 10° 7.9 mm, 83% Wind 15 km/h

21 Wed 14° 6° 2.1 mm, 51% Wind 28 km/h

22 Thu 15° 7° 10 mm, 86% Wind 17 km/h

23 Fri 12° 8° 30 mm, 86% Wind 41 km/h

24 Sat 11° 7° 1.4 mm, 62% Wind 28 km/h

Forecast: Open-Meteo

Sunrise 07:35 AM Sunset 06:11 PM Daylight 10 hr, 36 min First quarter 46%

Map

Nearby gauges

Gauge	Level	Compared with normal	24 hours	Distance
Iford BridgeRiver gauge, River Stour	0.50 m	Normal	+0.15 m	5.7 km
ThroopRiver gauge, River Stour	0.31 m	Low	−0.01 m	6.0 km
Hurn CourtRiver gauge, Moors River	0.22 m	Low	−0.01 m	7.4 km
Knapp MillRiver gauge, River Avon	0.32 m	Low	+0.02 m	7.7 km
WimborneRiver gauge, River Stour	0.39 m	Low	±0	11 km
Ferndown Tricketts CrossRiver gauge, Uddens Water	0.35 m	Normal	−0.03 m	11 km
Walford MillRiver gauge, River Allen	0.08 m	Very low	±0	13 km
Swanage Prospect Farm Swan BrookRiver gauge, Swan Brook	0.39 m	High	±0	13 km

Questions and answers

What is the water level of Bournemouth today?

On 18 Oct 2026, 05:15 BST, the water level was 1.80 m. Up 0.02 m over the last 24 hours.

Is Bournemouth rising or falling?

Up 0.02 m over the last 24 hours. Up 1.14 m over the last 7 days.

Is the level of Bournemouth 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:E71924
Coordinates: 50.71433, -1.87488 (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	1.80 m	2026-10-18 04:15	Provisional

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How to cite

Environment Agency: Bournemouth (ea:E71924). Accessed October 18, 2026 via Nivelmap, https://nivelmap.com/en/united-kingdom/dorset/bournemouth-e71924

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