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Cow Green water level

River gauge, Cumbria, United Kingdom

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Latest reading

Water level

0.33m Up 0.04 m over the last 24 hours

0.0 0.5

History

History
0.300.32mOct 13Oct 14Oct 16Oct 18Oct 200.300.32mOct 13Oct 16Oct 20
0.300.330.35mSep 20Sep 27Oct 5Oct 12Oct 190.300.330.35mSep 20Oct 5Oct 19
Water level

What this means

Cow Green reads 0.33 m as of 20 Oct 2026, 02:00 BST. There is no published reference for this river yet, so we can't say whether that is high or low for the season.

It has risen 0.04 m over the past 24 hours. In the last month it has stayed between 0.29 m and 0.37 m.

Over the past seven days the change adds up to 0.00 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
0.29 m – 0.37 m
Lowest and highest in 12 months
0.29 m – 0.36 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 8° 1° – Wind 13 km/h
19 Mon 10° 4° 2.6 mm, 100% Wind 19 km/h
20 Tue 9° 8° 24 mm, 76% Wind 16 km/h
21 Wed 8° 3° 3.2 mm, 80% Wind 28 km/h
22 Thu 6° 1° 2.7 mm, 39% Wind 17 km/h
23 Fri 11° 3° 25 mm, 84% Wind 37 km/h
24 Sat 8° 4° 4.5 mm, 55% Wind 36 km/h

Forecast: Open-Meteo

Sunrise 07:48 AM Sunset 06:01 PM Daylight 10 hr, 14 min First quarter 64%

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Nearby gauges

Gauge Level Compared with normal 24 hours Distance
HarwoodRiver gauge, Harwood Beck 0.17 m Low ±0 4.2 km
MoorhouseRiver gauge, Trout Beck 0.12 m Low ±0 7.2 km
WearheadRiver gauge, Killhope Burn 0.10 m Very low ±0 12 km
MiddletonRiver gauge, River Tees 0.43 m Low +0.03 m 14 km
ApplebyRiver gauge, River Eden 0.22 m Low ±0 15 km
Great Musgrave BridgeRiver gauge, River Eden 0.23 m Low −0.01 m 16 km
EastgateRiver gauge, Rookhope Burn 0.03 m Very low ±0 17 km
Kirkby StephenRiver gauge, River Eden 0.18 m Low −0.01 m 20 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 0.33 m on the gauge does not mean the water is that deep.

What is the water level of Cow Green today?

On 20 Oct 2026, 02:00 BST, the water level was 0.33 m. Up 0.04 m over the last 24 hours.

Is Cow Green rising or falling?

Up 0.04 m over the last 24 hours. Steady over the last 7 days.

Is the level of Cow Green 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:F3507
Coordinates
54.65393, -2.29134 (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 0.33 m 2026-10-20 01:00 Provisional

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How to cite

Environment Agency: Cow Green (ea:F3507). Accessed October 20, 2026 via Nivelmap, https://nivelmap.com/en/united-kingdom/cumbria/cow-green

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.