River level and rainfall
The water level at Nepal's river gauges and the rain at its weather stations, read from the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology. Every reading carries the time its own gauge sent it, and a gauge that has gone quiet says so.
Rivers now
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| Gauge | District | Level (m) | Warning / danger (m) | State | Read |
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The river gauges did not answer. No level is shown, because an old level shown as current is worse than none. The Department's own map is at hydrology.gov.np.
Rain in the last day
Wettest first. The district filter above applies here too.
| Station | District | 1 hour (mm) | 3 hours (mm) | 24 hours (mm) | Read |
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The rain gauges did not answer. No rainfall is shown rather than an old figure.
Department of Hydrology and Meteorology gauges (hydrology.gov.np), read through the government's BIPAD portal about ten minutes before you opened this page at most. A reading more than 3 hours old is marked old, and a gauge that has sent nothing for a day is marked silent. The state column is worked out here from the level and the station's own published thresholds; where the source's label disagrees, the worse of the two is shown.
The idea for this page came from Niraj Bhusal's Rasuwa flood bulletin, which follows these gauges for the Rasuwa corridor.
How to read a river gauge
Each gauge measures the height of the water at one point on one river, in metres. The number means little on its own: a reading of 3 metres is ordinary on one river and a flood on another. What matters is how close it is to the two levels the Department sets for that station.
The Department publishes a warning level and a higherdanger level for most stations, and this page compares every reading with that station's own pair. Some stations have only a warning level, and a few have neither, so their state reads "no threshold". A few report height above sea level instead of depth, which is why Galchi on the Trishuli reads in the hundreds; the comparison with its own thresholds still holds.
Why some gauges are silent
On 4 November 2026, when this page was built, 102 of the 284 river gauges in the record had sent nothing for more than a day, and 84 of them were still labelled "below warning level". That label cannot be true of a gauge that is measuring nothing, so this page calls them silent and shows the last reading each one sent.
On the river the August flood came down, those last readings tell their own story. On 4 November every gauge the record places in Rasuwa district was silent. The gauge at Rasuwagadhi, on the border, last reported at 8:40 am on 26 August, the two at Syaphrubesi at 8:50 am and the two at Betrawati at 9:20 am. Downstream at Malekhu the last reading was 10.48 metres at 11:40 am the same day, above that station's danger level of 8 metres. The record does not say why a gauge stopped.
A silent gauge upstream of you means the river above you is not being watched from that point. Downstream gauges cannot warn you about water that has not reached them yet.
What this page cannot do
It is not an alert service. It shows what the gauges said a few minutes ago, but it will not wake you at night. In a glacier collapse or a landslide-dam burst the water can arrive before any gauge below it registers a rise, so the first warning may come from people upstream, not from any instrument. If you live beside a river, know your way to higher ground before the rain starts, and see the emergency page for the numbers to call.
Rainfall
The rain table shows what fell over the last 1, 3 and 24 hours at each station that is reporting. The Department flags a station when its rainfall crosses the Department's own thresholds, and those flags are shown as they come. This page sets no rainfall threshold of its own, because there is no published one to cite.
नदीको सतह र वर्षा, अहिले
यहाँ जल तथा मौसम विज्ञान विभागका नदी मापन केन्द्रहरूले पठाएको पानीको सतह र वर्षा मापन केन्द्रहरूको वर्षा देखाइएको छ। हरेक रिडिङसँगै त्यो कुन बेला लिइएको हो भन्ने पनि छ, तीन घण्टाभन्दा पुरानो रिडिङलाई पुरानो भनेर, र एक दिनभन्दा बढी केही नपठाएको केन्द्रलाई मौन भनेर देखाइन्छ।
विभागले धेरैजसो केन्द्रका लागि चेतावनी सतह र त्योभन्दा माथि खतराको सतह तोकेको छ, र यहाँ हरेक रिडिङलाई त्यही केन्द्रको सतहसँग दाँजिएको छ। यो पेज सूचना दिने सेवा होइन, त्यसैले आपत्कालमा सम्पर्क गर्ने नम्बरका लागि आपत्कालीन पेज हेर्नुहोस्।
Common questions
- Is this Nepal river level and rainfall page free to use?
- Yes. Every Kaamko tool is free, with no sign-up, no account and no usage limit. They are published by Imperial College of Engineering, a Tribhuvan University-affiliated engineering college in Tathali, Bhaktapur, and are not funded by advertising.
- Does what I type get sent anywhere?
- Nothing you type is sent anywhere. This page fetches one thing over the network, the latest gauge readings it shows, and the filters you set are applied on your own device.
- Where do the figures come from?
- From the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology’s gauges, read through the government’s BIPAD portal. Every reading carries the time its own gauge sent it; a reading more than three hours old is marked old, and a gauge that has sent nothing for a day is marked silent rather than shown as normal.
- Who maintains these tools?
- Imperial College of Engineering, formerly Janakpur Engineering College, in Tathali, Bhaktapur, Nepal. Corrections are welcome by phone on 01-5091616 or through the contact page, and a figure reported as wrong is checked against its published source rather than adjusted on request.
Last checked by Imperial College of Engineering. Rates, slabs and formulas are re-checked against their published source on this date.