Data and Station Information for BOSTON

Station Information

Station ID:	235
Latitude:	42.353333
Longitude:	-71.053333
Coastline code:	960
Station code:	171
Country:	UNITED STATES
Time span of data:	1921 – 2023
Completeness (%):	99
Date of last update:	10 Jan 2024

Green Arrow:	Current Station
Yellow Marker:	Neighbouring RLR Station
Red Marker:	Neighbouring Metric Station

Please note: In many cases, the station position in our database is accurate to only one minute. Thus, the tide gauge may not appear to be on the coast.

Tide Gauge Data

Plot of monthly mean sea level data at BOSTON.

Link to larger image of monthly data plot.
Download monthly mean sea level data.

Plot of annual mean sea level data at BOSTON.

Link to larger image of annual data plot.
Download annual mean sea level data.

Download metric sea level data. Use only with extreme caution. NOTE: If some of the data are red in the plots above, the 'flag for attention' is set. Please see the documentation below.

Additional Data Sources (guide to additional data sources)

Nearby GNSS Stations from SONEL: MAMI
Nearby Real Time Stations from VLIZ: boma
Research Quality Data from UHSLC station 741: hourly and daily

Station Documentation

Link to RLR information.

Documentation added 1991-06-11

Boston 960/171 RLR(1964) is 11.0m below BM7

Documentation added 2011-08-17

Using NOAA data the RLR diagram was re-drawn. Primary benchmark is now K 12 MASS G.S. 1936 14.292 6.858m above gauge datum. Previous benchmark BM 7 is no longer listed on the NOAA site.

Data Authority

N.O.A.A. / N.O.S.
N/oes33, Ssmc4, Room 6531
1305 East-West Highway
Silver Spring,
MD 20910

Data

Data Notes

Extracted from Database

BOSTON