Sands Centre, Carlisle water level

What this means

At 0.52 m, the River Eden at Sands Centre, Carlisle is below normal for mid-September. That reading is from 18 Sept 2026, 10:45 BST, so the gauge may be offline or reporting late.

The median for mid-September is 0.69 m, based on 16 years of readings, so the river level is 0.17 m below typical. On the same day last year the reading was 0.43 m, a difference of +0.09 m.

The water is rising: up 0.08 m over the past 24 hours.

Autumn rain usually starts to lift rivers again after the summer low.

Compared with 16 years of daily readings for this time of year. How to read levels

Key numbers

Median for this date

0.69 m0.17 m below the median for this date

Normal for this date

0.43 m – 1.20 m8 years in 10 fall in this range (16 years of records)

Normal range

0.26 m – 2.50 m

Same day last year

0.43 m+0.09 m

Lowest and highest in 12 months

0.25 m – 3.46 m

Highest on record

7.91 mDecember 6, 2015

Lowest on record

0.24 mJuly 16, 2011