Avonmouth Portbury water level

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

Tidal gauge, Bristol, United Kingdom

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Latest reading

Water level

5.25m Down 1.20 m over the last 24 hours

Measured 19 Oct 2026, 20:15 BST (43 min ago)

History

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Water level

What this means

The Environment Agency has Avonmouth Portbury at 5.25 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 1.20 m over the past 24 hours. The 30-day range is 1.07 m – 14.01 m.

Over the past seven days the change adds up to −6.78 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: 1.07 m – 14.01 m
Lowest and highest in 12 months: 6.60 m – 7.64 m

Weather at the gauge

Rain in the last 3 days: 3.7 mm. Rain that falls upstream can take hours or days to show up at a river gauge.

19 Mon 15° 9° 3.7 mm, 100% Wind 21 km/h

20 Tue 12° 9° 12 mm, 99% Wind 14 km/h

21 Wed 11° 7° 3.3 mm, 73% Wind 46 km/h

22 Thu 13° 6° 12 mm, 85% Wind 25 km/h

23 Fri 13° 8° 18 mm, 85% Wind 37 km/h

24 Sat 15° 7° 8.5 mm, 75% Wind 23 km/h

25 Sun 16° 11° 6.2 mm, 59% Wind 38 km/h

Forecast: Open-Meteo

Sunrise 07:42 AM Sunset 06:11 PM Daylight 10 hr, 29 min First quarter 62%

Map

Nearby gauges

Gauge	Level	Compared with normal	24 hours	Distance
Markham BrookRiver gauge	5.30 m	Very low	±0	2.7 km
Cribbs Causeway ReservoirRiver gauge	42.58 m	Normal	+0.01 m	6.5 km
WraxallRiver gauge, Land Yeo	0.02 m	Very low	±0	7.6 km
Filton Southmead RoadRiver gauge, River Trym	0.02 m	Normal	±0	7.7 km
Ashton ValeRiver gauge, River Avon	0.91 m	Low	−0.02 m	8.7 km
Bristol Harbour Passage StreetRiver gauge, Bristol Frome	6.15 m	Very low	−0.01 m	9.5 km
Colliters BrookRiver gauge	0.01 m	Low	±0	9.5 km
EastvilleRiver gauge, Bristol Frome	7.61 m	Normal	+0.10 m	9.9 km

Questions and answers

What is the water level of Avonmouth Portbury today?

On 19 Oct 2026, 20:15 BST, the water level was 5.25 m. Down 1.20 m over the last 24 hours.

Is Avonmouth Portbury rising or falling?

Down 1.20 m over the last 24 hours. Down 6.78 m over the last 7 days.

Is the level of Avonmouth Portbury 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:E72624
Coordinates: 51.50291, -2.69880 (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	5.25 m	2026-10-19 19:15	Provisional

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How to cite

Environment Agency: Avonmouth Portbury (ea:E72624). Accessed October 19, 2026 via Nivelmap, https://nivelmap.com/en/united-kingdom/bristol/avonmouth-portbury-e72624

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