BfG German Federal Waterways Data (PEGELONLINE)
Real-time and historical water level, discharge, and temperature data from over 500 gauging stations across Germany's federal waterways, operated by the Federal Institute of Hydrology (BfG).
pegelonline.wsv.de
At a glance
- Region
- Germany (Europe)
- Coverage
- National
- Access
- Free
- Category
- Government
What's inside
- Water Level
- Discharge
- Water Temperature
- Time Series
Terms explained
What you can do with it
Typical work that data of this type supports.
- 01
Design flows
Estimate 1-in-50 and 1-in-100 year floods for bridges, culverts and spillways.
Because it has: Discharge
- 02
Low flows
Set environmental flows and check what is left in the river in a dry year.
- 03
Storage tracking
Follow storage and releases through the season.
Because it has: Water Level
Where AI adds value
Ideas for machine learning and AI agents built on this kind of data.
- 01
Flow forecasting
Train LSTM-style models on past records to forecast river levels and flow days ahead.
- 02
Ungauged basins
Combine with catchment data to estimate flow where there is no gauge.
- 03
Storage from space
Estimate volume from satellite water area and altimetry.
Machine access and documentation
Open API
Machine-readable endpoint on pegelonline.wsv.de
Licence: DL-DE / German open gov
Listed in our registry of open water APIs, which WaterDataGPT can query live.
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