HANKO / HANGO

Station Information

Station ID: 71
Latitude: 59.822867
Longitude: 22.976583
Coastline code: 60
Station code: 331
Country: FINLAND
Time span of data: 1887 – 2023
Completeness (%): 89
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.

Station Documentation

Link to RLR information.

Documentation added 1991-06-11

Hanko/Hango 060/331 RLR(1964) is 9.7m below BM126

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)'.
1887-1896 FCODE=06
1897-1903 FCODE=24
1904-1970 FCODE=06

Documentation added 2012-01-03

Levelling information supplied by the Finnish Meterological Institute confirms Primary benchmark remains 126 4.598m relative to 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