River Ely · Afon Elái
Both gauges on the River Ely are normal and steady.
Read from 2 river-level gauges at 12:00 on 28 October 2026 GMT, and read again every fifteen minutes.
See the River Ely on the live map →Every gauge on the River Ely, right now
| Gauge | km above the mouth |
Level now |
Against its record |
Percentile | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lanelaynear Talbot Green (Tonysguboriau) | 30 | 0.52 m | Normal | 90th | ▬steady |
| Ely Bridgenear Victoria Park (Parc Victoria) | 7 | 0.94 m | Normal | 84th | ▬steady |
The percentile is where a gauge's latest reading sits in its own record of readings, not how full the channel is. A river sits low most of the time, so a high percentile takes surprisingly little water: at Beddgelert on the Glaslyn, with thirty-six years of record, the ninety-fourth percentile is about 1.05 m - 1.38 m below the highest level ever recorded there.
The course of the River Ely
About this river
From its highest reach down to its mouth near Penarth Flats, the Afon Elái runs 39 km. The course above is drawn in two weights: the bright line is where Ordnance Survey Open Rivers calls the channel the Afon Elái, and the faint line, about 7 km of it, is the same water running under another name, past a lake or a weir pool. Its gauges hold between 13 and 39 years of readings, and that is what today's levels are compared with.
- Dyffryn Isaf Llantrisant - a rain gauge near Ynysmaerdy, not a river level
- St Fagans - near Michaelston-super-Ely (Llanfihangel-ar-Elái), and not reporting at the moment
- St Fagans - a rain gauge near Ely (Trelái), not a river level