Data and Station Information for CHERBOURG

Station Information

Station ID:	467
Latitude:	49.651299
Longitude:	-1.63563
Coastline code:	190
Station code:	61
Country:	FRANCE
Time span of RLR data:	1943 – 2025
RLR completeness (%):	61
Time span of metric data:	1942 – 2025
Metric completeness (%):	62
Date of last update:	18 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 CHERBOURG.

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

Plot of annual mean sea level data at CHERBOURG.

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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: BMHG, HEAU, CHTG
Nearby Real Time Stations from VLIZ: cher2, cher

Station Documentation

Link to RLR information.

Documentation - date unknown

1943 DATA SUPPLIED BY AUTHORITY NO. 66
1942,1944,1960-1962 DATA SUPPLIED BY AUTHORITY NO.19

Documentation added 1991-06-11

Cherbourg 190/061 RLR(1975) is 12.5m below BMNGFNPQ35

Documentation added 1993-07-12

Cherbourg 190/061 RLR(1975) is 12.5m below BMNGFNPQ35

Documentation added 2014-09-24

Using values from the SONEL website the latitude and longitude values have been revised. The SONEL data included additional data points for October 1976,October 1978,December 1985,August-December 1994 and January-November 2009. These have been added to the database.

Documentation added 2016-06-21

When loaded the 2015 dataset it was noted that the datapoint for October 2012 had been revised.

Documentation added 2025-07-15

Updated the whole dataset to ensure they include all the historical data recovered recently by SHOM and the calculated monthly and annual means match those distributed by SONEL.

Data Authority

SHOM
13 rue de Chatelier
29200 BREST

Data

Data Notes

Extracted from Database

CHERBOURG