Data and Station Information for VAIRAO

Station Information

Station ID:	2242
Latitude:	-17.8059
Longitude:	-149.295
Coastline code:	780
Station code:	12
Country:	FRENCH POLYNESIA
Time span of RLR data:	1973 – 2024
RLR completeness (%):	22
Time span of metric data:	1973 – 2024
Metric completeness (%):	23
Link to ellipsoid:	Available
Date of last update:	18 Jun 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 VAIRAO.

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

Plot of annual mean sea level data at VAIRAO.

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: VRTG
Nearby Real Time Stations from VLIZ: vair

Station Documentation

Link to RLR information.

Documentation added 2016-06-21

Data for Vairao French Polynesia has only recently been added to the database. There is a small amount of data for August-November 1973 with the main dataset then beginning November 2010.

Documentation added 2017-03-23

Using information from the SONEL website Vairao has been made RLR from 2010 onwards.

Documentation added 2025-07-16

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

VAIRAO