Data



Data Notes



Extracted from Database

09 Sep 2019

WELLINGTON HARBOUR

Station Information

Station ID: 221
Latitude: -41.28434
Longitude: 174.7798
GLOSS ID: 101
Coastline code: 690
Station code: 11
Country: NEW ZEALAND
Time span of RLR data: 1944 – 2018
RLR completeness (%): 95
Time span of metric data: 1918 – 2018
Metric completeness (%): 80
Date of last update: 23 Jul 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 WELLINGTON HARBOUR.

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

Plot of annual mean sea level data at WELLINGTON HARBOUR.

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: WEL2, WEL1, WGTT, WGTN
Nearby Real Time Stations from VLIZ: wlgt
Fast Delivery Data from UHSLC station 71: hourly and daily
Research Quality Data from UHSLC station 71: hourly and daily

Station Documentation

Link to RLR information.

Documentation added 1993-07-12

Wellington 690/011 RLR(1961) is 9.0m below BM K80/1

Documentation added 2003-01-17

New data from John Hannah added 17/01/03 which supercedes old data. New data does not have any missing days information. Old data has been backed up.

Documentation added 2003-01-17

New data from John Hannah was for Auckland II, Dunedin II, Lyttelton II and Wellington II.

Documentation added 2005-10-17

There is a new John Hannah paper referring to New Zealand data for Wellington, Dunedin, Lyttelton and Auckland. The reference is: "An updated analysis of long-term sea level change in New Zealand." Geophysical Research Letters, V31, L03307, doi:10.1029/2003GL019166 (2004).

Documentation added 2006-08-15

Prior to 1984 data were provided by authority 53 (Land Information New Zealand) and subsequently by the Royal NZ Navy (authority A5). Data for 1991 onwards are now provided by authority Department of Land and Survey N.Z. once again.

Documentation added 2006-08-16

From information provided by LINZ in August 2006, it seems that there has only ever been one gauge at any one time at Wellington. Since the late 1880's it has been at Queen's Wharf except for a period at Waterloo Wharf during August 1990-August 1994.

Documentation added 2008-10-01

Full dataset 1944-2007 received from Glen Rowe at LINZ.

Documentation added 2018-06-28

The Kaikoura earthquake of 23:02 on the 13 November 2016 impacted on a number of stations in the central part of New Zealand. Because of this the hourly height values for several stations from 14th November 00:00hrs have been adjusted by LINZ. For station the Wellington the adjust is -0.027m.

Data Authority

Land Information New Zealand
155 The Terrace
PO 5501
Wellington 6145