FUNCHAL B

Station Information

Station ID: 2024
Latitude: 32.651111
Longitude: -17.117778
GLOSS ID: 250
Coastline code: 365
Station code: 10
Country: PORTUGAL
Time span of data: 2003 – 2015
Completeness (%): 79
Date of last update: 06 Jun 2017

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.

Additional Data Sources (guide to additional data sources)

Nearby GNSS Stations from SONEL: FUNC

Station Documentation

Link to RLR information.

Documentation added 2010-07-12

Funchal II is a new station. Due to harbour construction the previous tide gauge was giving bad data results. The new gauge is levelled into a new TGBM and so cannot be added to the previous dataset.

Documentation added 2010-07-20

This station has now been made RLR. RLR year is 2006 with RLR factor 5.421m. RLR (2006) is 9.5m below TGBM BH 20/02.

Documentation added 2017-06-06

The PSMSL has been informed that there were major problems with the Funchal tide gauge (THALES) during 2015.

Data Authority

Hydrographic Institute
Rua das Trinas 49
1249-093 Lisboa