Rakaia › Rakaia SH1

Rakaia River at SH1 Bridge

1.24m

Sat, 17 Oct, 11:00 pm · 30 min ago

Steady

3 h change: -16 mm
Steady for: 9 h
7-day peak: 1.88
Thu, 15 Oct, 10:40 am
30-day median: 1.11
30-day range: 0.90 – 1.88
Highest gauged: 188 m³/s
Recession: halves in 12 h
median of 1 past rise, toward 1.06

Stage

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Recent rises

detected from hourly means

Peak	From	To	Rise	Settled
Thu, 15 Oct, 9:00 am	1.06	1.88	+821 mm	19 h

Along the Rakaia

Upstream

Rakaia Gorge

2.66 m

Downstream

Rakaia Fishing Res

1.67 m

JBNZ river guide

Rakaia River, sections that cite this gauge are marked

Sections

Rakaia River

Excluding the Hydra Waters above the sign, and Glenariffe Stream.

Sea to the Wilberforce Class 1

Braided, shingle · 96 km · 4.1 m/km

Always boatable.

Launch SH1; Gorge bridge; Rakaia Huts (fee payable, please pay it)

Hazard: old bridge piles are now in all the main stems between the SH1 and rail bridges, visible or just below the surface.

Wilberforce to Jagged Stream Class 3 Closed April to June

Boulders, braided · 32 km · 7.8 m/km

Launch Lake Coleridge power station outfall

Please stop in the backwater before the Hydra Waters.

From the Jet Boating New Zealand Canterbury river information sheet of July 2024, transcribed by hand on 17 October 2026. Uplifting is whether the 5-knot limit is lifted for the section. JBNZ can update the sheet at any time; flo checked it 4.9 h ago. Open the PDF.

Weather

at Rakaia SH1 · Open-Meteo

10pm

Clear

6.6°

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2 N

1am

Clear

5.4°

–

5 N

4am

Clear

5.3°

–

6 N

7am

Clear

4.7°

–

6 N

10am

Clear

11.4°

–

12 NE

1pm

Clear

15.9°

–

12 NE

4pm

Clear

17.6°

–

15 NE

7pm

Clear

13.4°

–

18 NE

10pm

Clear

9.1°

–

12 N

1am

Clear

8.5°

–

10 N

4am

Fog

6.9°

–

8 N

7am

Clear

8.3°

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9 W

Sat Clear 6.6°/ 6.1° dry

Sun Clear 17.6°/ 4.7° dry

Mon Fog 18.1°/ 6.9° dry

Tue Overcast 17.6°/ 9.4° dry