Data and Station Information for PORT VILA B

Station Information

Station ID:	1841
Latitude:	-17.755333
Longitude:	168.307694
GLOSS ID:	348
Coastline code:	741
Station code:	2
Country:	VANUATU
Time span of data:	1993 – 2025
Completeness (%):	94
Link to ellipsoid:	Available
Date of last update:	20 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 PORT VILA B.

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

Plot of annual mean sea level data at PORT VILA B.

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: PTVL, VANU
Nearby Real Time Stations from VLIZ: vanu
Fast Delivery Data from UHSLC station 46: hourly and daily
Research Quality Data from UHSLC station 46: hourly and daily

Station Documentation

Link to RLR information.

Documentation added 1998-01-13

National Tidal Facility SEAFRAME station

Documentation added 2002-10-16

Approx. 11cm rise in sea level 2nd Jan 2002 following earthquake.

Documentation added 2010-09-20

Benchmark VAN 1 is 2.854m above TGZ (ORSTOM) RLR (2008) has been defined as 8.9m below VAN 1

Documentation added 2011-03-15

From data available from the VLIZ site in Ostende a tsunami can be seen 29-30 September 2009.

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

PORT VILA B