St Johns River near Christmas, FL Water Level Today

NWS river forecast

Forecast from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service. Issued a few times a day and only while a forecast is active. Not for navigation.

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About this gauge

USGS gauge 02232500 sits on the St Johns River and reads everything draining 1,539 square miles of the Upper St. Johns basin. Its datum sits 2 feet above sea level NGVD29. Daily flow has been on record here since 1934, 93 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

Two gauged sites sit upstream of here. The closest is St Johns River near Cocoa, FL, reading 1,331 square miles. This gauge adds the 208 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from St Johns River above Lake Harney near Geneva, FL at 2,043 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 75% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to St Johns River near Sanford, FL.

Normal flows here

The St Johns River runs a median of 774 cfs at this gauge across 93 years of record. October is the fullest month at a median 2,200 cfs, and May the leanest at 213 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 11,600 cfs in 1954, and the lowest is -137.0 cfs in 1999.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1934 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.