SANTIAGO DE CUBA

Station Information

Station ID: 2287
Latitude: 20.0205
Longitude: -75.836667
Coastline code: 930
Station code: 85
Country: CUBA
Time span of data: 2012 – 2022
Completeness (%): 53
Date of last update: 20 Sep 2023

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.

Additional Data Sources (guide to additional data sources)

Nearby GNSS Stations from SONEL: SCUB

Station Documentation

Link to RLR information.

Documentation added 2016-04-28

Santiago de Cuba is a newly supplied Cuban station. Using information supplied by the Cuban National Tidal Service Santiago de Cuba has been made RLR. Primary benchmark is TGBM 010A 3.379m above Tide Gauge Zero and 1.849m above Geodesic National Datum (GND).

Documentation added 2016-06-29

Information supplied by Cuba confirms that since 1992 the tide gauge sensor is a float recording hourly.

Documentation added 2018-04-05

The tide gauge at Santiago de Cuba was damaged by a storm and destroyed by hurricane Sandy. Since 2016 Santiago de Cuba has been operating from a temporary station. Plans are for a new radar gauge to be installed during 2018.

Data Authority

Cuban National Tidal Service
Calle 4 No. 304, E/3 Y 3-a
Playa
Cuidad Habana