Data and Station Information for NICE

Station Information

Station ID:	1468
Latitude:	43.695599
Longitude:	7.2855
Coastline code:	230
Station code:	81
Country:	FRANCE
Time span of data:	1978 – 2024
Completeness (%):	88
Date of last update:	31 Mar 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 NICE.

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

Plot of annual mean sea level data at NICE.

Link to larger image of annual data plot.
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: NICE, NICA
Nearby Real Time Stations from VLIZ: nice, nice2

Station Documentation

Link to RLR information.

Documentation added 1991-06-11

Nice 230/081 RLR(1988) is 8.7m below Fundamental BM

Documentation added 1998-03-20

Gauge not in use since the beginning of 1995. A replacement is planned

Documentation added 2000-08-31

Nice acoustic gauge installed 18/03/1998.

Documentation added 2000-10-17

Data now supplied by Service Hydrographique et Ocean. de la Marine, Brest.

Documentation added 2012-03-29

Primary benchmark is now NGF M.A.I3K3 - OB 7.712m above TGZ.

Documentation added 2014-10-01

Using data from SONEL the latitude and longitude for Nice have been revised.

Documentation added 2016-06-21

When adding the 2015 data to the dataset it was noted that the value for the datapoint for September 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

NICE