Pentewan Inlet water level

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

Tidal gauge, Cornwall, United Kingdom

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Water level

0.18m Down 0.03 m over the last 24 hours

Measured 17 Oct 2026, 17:30 BST (41 min ago)

History

7 days 30 days

Water level

What this means

Pentewan Inlet reads 0.18 m as of 17 Oct 2026, 17:30 BST. The agency publishes no normal range or warning level for this tidal gauge yet, so there is nothing to judge the number against.

It has dropped 0.03 m over the past 24 hours. In the last month it has stayed between 0.01 m and 1.57 m.

Over the past seven days the change adds up to −0.45 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: 0.01 m – 1.57 m

Weather at the gauge

Rain in the last 3 days: 0.9 mm. Rain that falls upstream can take hours or days to show up at a river gauge.

17 Sat 14° 7° – Wind 17 km/h

18 Sun 13° 7° – Wind 17 km/h

19 Mon 13° 9° 0.7 mm, 50% Wind 23 km/h

20 Tue 14° 7° – Wind 13 km/h

21 Wed 12° 8° 3.3 mm, 61% Wind 40 km/h

22 Thu 13° 9° 12 mm, 86% Wind 31 km/h

23 Fri 13° 10° 33 mm, 90% Wind 41 km/h

Forecast: Open-Meteo

Sunrise 07:45 AM Sunset 06:26 PM Daylight 10 hr, 41 min First quarter 42%

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Nearby gauges

Gauge	Level	Compared with normal	24 hours	Distance
PentewanRiver gauge, St Austell River	1.17 m	Normal	−0.01 m	0.2 km
MevagisseyRiver gauge, Mevagissey Stream	0.10 m	Low	−0.01 m	2.1 km
MolingeyRiver gauge, St Austell River	0.62 m	Normal	±0	2.7 km
TrenowthRiver gauge, River Fal	0.21 m	Low	−0.01 m	8.9 km
St Blazey Station RoadRiver gauge, St Blazey Stream	0.06 m	Very low	±0	9.2 km
TregonyRiver gauge, River Fal	0.26 m	Normal	−0.03 m	10 km
Ponts ValeRiver gauge, Par River	0.15 m	Very low	−0.01 m	10 km
LuxulyanRiver gauge, Par River	0.23 m	Very low	−0.01 m	11 km

Questions and answers

What is the water level of Pentewan Inlet today?

On 17 Oct 2026, 17:30 BST, the water level was 0.18 m. Down 0.03 m over the last 24 hours.

Is Pentewan Inlet rising or falling?

Down 0.03 m over the last 24 hours. Down 0.45 m over the last 7 days.

Is the level of Pentewan Inlet 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:48146
Coordinates: 50.29063, -4.78205 (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	0.18 m	2026-10-17 16:30	Provisional

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How to cite

Environment Agency: Pentewan Inlet (ea:48146). Accessed October 17, 2026 via Nivelmap, https://nivelmap.com/en/united-kingdom/cornwall/pentewan-inlet

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Readings are provisional, can be delayed or wrong and are not a flood warning. Read the disclaimer