Data and Station Information for NUKU HIVA

Station Information

Station ID:	1555
Latitude:	-8.933333
Longitude:	-140.083333
GLOSS ID:	142
Coastline code:	805
Station code:	11
Country:	FRENCH POLYNESIA
Time span of data:	1982 – 2018
Completeness (%):	70
Date of last update:	19 Jun 2025

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 NUKU HIVA.

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Download monthly mean sea level data.

Plot of annual mean sea level data at NUKU HIVA.

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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 Real Time Stations from VLIZ: nuku
Fast Delivery Data from UHSLC station 31: hourly and daily
Research Quality Data from UHSLC station 31: hourly and daily

Station Documentation

Link to RLR information.

Documentation - date unknown

GAUGE AT TAIOHAE HARBOR

Documentation added 1991-10-16

NO SIMILARITY TO NEIGHBOROURING PAPEETE IN 1982

Documentation added 1993-07-12

Nuku Hiva 805/011 RLR(1987) is 8.4m below BM #1

Documentation added 1997-11-14

Instrument type: (1982-1983,1986-present) Leupold and Stevens Analog-to-Digital Recorder (ADR); (4/1986-present) Handar Encoder (ENC)Primary gauge: ADR:1982-90, ENC 1991-

Documentation added 2013-10-14

Complete dataset April 1982 to Dec. 2012 downloaded onto the database from UHSLC

Documentation added 2014-02-27

Data for Nuku Hiva is available from the SONEL website. Data is supplied to SONEL by SHOM. SHOM has confirmed that the tide gauge at Nuku Hiva belongs to UHSLC. However, SHOM work closely with UHSLC to maintain and control the instrumentation.

Data Authority

University of Hawaii Sea Level Center
Department of Oceanography Division of Natural Sciences
1000 Pope Road
Honolulu
Hawaii 96822

Data

Data Notes

Extracted from Database

NUKU HIVA