Data



Data Notes



Extracted from Database

20 May 2019

CAPE MAY

Station Information

Station ID: 1153
Latitude: 38.968333
Longitude: -74.96
Coastline code: 960
Station code: 90
Country: UNITED STATES
Time span of data: 1966 – 2018
Completeness (%): 92
Date of last update: 05 Feb 2019

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 CAPE MAY.

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

Plot of annual mean sea level data at CAPE MAY.

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 Real Time Stations from VLIZ: cmnj, cmnj2
Research Quality Data from UHSLC station 746: hourly and daily

Station Documentation

Link to RLR information.

Documentation added 1991-06-11

Cape May 960/090 RLR(1966) is 10.5m below BM1

Documentation added 2011-11-24

Using information from the NOAA website the RLR diagram has been revised. Primary benchmark remains BM 1 but has now been given the full name as appears on NOAA BM 1 NO 1 1965 4.892m relative to gauge datum.

Data Authority

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