Hub'Eau Hydrometrie API (France)
French national hydrometry web API delivering near-real-time water height and discharge from ~5,000 stations plus elaborated daily/monthly mean discharge back to 1900 for thousands of stations, operated via the Vigicrues/SCHAPI network. Open data service.
data.gouv.fr
At a glance
- Region
- France (Europe)
- Coverage
- France
- Access
- Free
- Category
- Government
- Last updated
- 2025
What's inside
- river discharge
- water height
- streamflow
- gauge stations
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: river discharge
- 02
Low flows
Set environmental flows and check what is left in the river in a dry year.
- 03
Coverage gaps
Find who lacks safe water or sanitation.
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
Failure prediction
Predict pipe bursts and plant failures before they happen.
Machine access and documentation
Open API
Open keyless REST API v2 hydrometrie (sites, stations, observations_tr, obs_elab)
Licence: Open data
Listed in our registry of open water APIs, which WaterDataGPT can query live.
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