Data and Station Information for MARSEILLE

Station Information

Station ID:	61
Latitude:	43.278801
Longitude:	5.35386
GLOSS ID:	205
Coastline code:	230
Station code:	51
Country:	FRANCE
Time span of data:	1849 – 2025
Completeness (%):	62
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 MARSEILLE.

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Plot of annual mean sea level data at MARSEILLE.

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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: PRIE, MARS
Fast Delivery Data from UHSLC station 824: hourly and daily
Research Quality Data from UHSLC station 824: hourly and daily

Station Documentation

Link to RLR information.

Documentation added 1991-06-11

Marseille 230/051 RLR(1963) is 8.5m below TGBM

Documentation added 1992-07-02

1951-52: Malfunction of recording mechanism but no deatails available

Documentation added 1993-03-17

Possible faulty data in period 1945-58 - see B.C.Douglas, JGR 97(C8),12699-12706, 1992 - from comparison to nearby stations.

Documentation added 1993-05-13

The Douglas comment stems from his use of a FWHM = 4 years low pass filter acting on the suspect data in 1951-52, rather than a suspect block of 13 years.

Documentation added 1993-07-22

Repairs made to sea water channel during May November 1992

Documentation added 1998-03-20

Type of gauge=maregraphe totalisateur gauge not in use in 1997, replacemnet gauge planned for 1998

Documentation added 2000-08-31

Marseille acoustic gauge installed 16/06/1998.

Documentation added 2000-10-19

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

Documentation added 2007-09-27

Mean Sea Level values for 2005/6 flagged suspect following report prepared for Xth GLOSS meeting. The acoustic gauge installed in 1998 appears to behave erratically for heights above a certain level.

Documentation added 2012-03-29

Primary benchmark is M.AC-0-VIII 1.99m above TGZ.

Documentation added 2014-09-24

Using values from the SONEL website the latitude and longitude for Marseille as 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
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29200 BREST

Data

Data Notes

Extracted from Database

MARSEILLE