Data and Station Information for TARIFA 2

Station Information

Station ID:	2054
Latitude:	36.00646
Longitude:	-5.60351
Coastline code:	220
Station code:	24
Country:	SPAIN
Time span of data:	2009 – 2024
Completeness (%):	95
Link to ellipsoid:	Available
Date of last update:	03 Jul 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 TARIFA 2.

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

Plot of annual mean sea level data at TARIFA 2.

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: TAR2, TARI, TAR0
Nearby Real Time Stations from VLIZ: tari

Station Documentation

Link to RLR information.

Documentation added 2011-01-24

Tarifa is a new station first data 2009 it is part of the recently established
REDMAR network.
Gauge is a MIROS radar sensor there was a change in datum of +2.2cm from Jan. 2010
Benchmark NGAB-MAR is 6.589m relative to REDMAR datum and 6.068m relative to IGN.
See paper by B. Perez et al 'Overlapping sea level time series measured using
different technologies: an example from the REDMAR Spanish network'.

Documentation added 2014-04-29

At the request of Puertos del Estado the latitude and longitude have been revised from 36.006667 -5.603333 derived from the previously supplied degrees and minutes value to 36.00646 -5.60351 the site of the new MIROS gauge in decimal degrees.

Data Authority

Puertos del Estado
Área de Conocimiento y Análisis del Medio Físico
Avda. Del Partenón, 10
28042, Madrid

Documentation added 2001-03-06

The Area de Conocimiento y Analisis del Medio Fisico was
formerly known as the Departamento de Clima Maritimo.

Data

Data Notes

Extracted from Database

TARIFA 2