Data and Station Information for MACKAY

Station Information

Station ID:	564
Latitude:	-21.1
Longitude:	149.233333
Coastline code:	680
Station code:	61
Country:	AUSTRALIA
Time span of RLR data:	1960 – 2022
RLR completeness (%):	79
Time span of metric data:	1949 – 2022
Metric completeness (%):	75
Date of last update:	01 Feb 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.

Tide Gauge Data

Plot of monthly mean sea level data at MACKAY.

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

Plot of annual mean sea level data at MACKAY.

Link to larger image of annual data plot.
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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.

Station Documentation

Link to RLR information.

Documentation added 1995-05-02

Station density along some sections of the Australian coast has meant that station codes 601 onwards have been re-ordered compared to those in earlier versions of the PSMSL data set.

Documentation added 1996-05-17

Data up to 1960 supplied by Queensland D.O.T. Revised data for 1960-1979 received from the National Tidal Centre, Bureau of Meteorology, South Australia

Documentation added 2010-08-24

Data supplier the NationalTidal Centre has confirmed that tide gauge zero from 1960 is LAT. Benchmark PSM 10043 is 9.916 m above LAT. RLR (2009) is defined as 13.9 m below PSM 10043

Data Authority

National Tidal Centre
Bureau of Meteorology
PO Box 421
Kent Town 5071
South Australia

Documentation added 2010-08-12

Formerly known as the National Tidal Facility

Data

Data Notes

Extracted from Database

MACKAY