TURKU / ABO

Station Information

Station ID: 239
Latitude: 60.428283
Longitude: 22.100533
Coastline code: 60
Station code: 241
Country: FINLAND
Time span of data: 1922 – 2023
Completeness (%): 98
Date of last update: 05 Mar 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.

Additional Data Sources (guide to additional data sources)

Nearby GNSS Stations from SONEL: TUO2, TUOR

Station Documentation

Link to RLR information.

Documentation added 1991-06-11

Turku/Abo 060/241 RLR(1964) is 9.0m below BM257F

Documentation added 1993-07-12

Turku/Abo 060/241 RLR(1964) is 9.0m below BM257F

Documentation added 2002-09-24

A description of the sea level network in Finland can be found
in 'Operational Oceanography: Implementation at the European
and Regional scales. 2002 (pp.129-137)'.
PRIOR TO 1971 FCODE=06

Documentation added 2012-01-09

Levelling information recently supplied by the Finnish Meteorological Institute
confirms that the Primary benchmark remains 257 F 3.831m above gauge datum.

Documentation added 2019-11-27

From 2018 onwards the averages of the Finnish sea level data will be based on 1 min observations. Values are calculated in Finnish normal time (EET).
The data are relative to the reference surface of the Finnish sea level observations and thus the datum is the tide gauge zero.

Data Authority

Finnish Meteorological Institute
Marine Research, Waves and Sea Level
Erik Palenin aukio 1
P.O. Box 503
FI - 00101 Helsinki