Blue sky, calm water – and a strikingly wide strip of exposed shores. The reception from Monday, 28 September 2026, from the Badi Tägerwilen makes the low water position clear.
The picture shows a part of the Lake Constance System. As exceptionally the situation is, a photograph cannot be measured on its own. However, the official level data provide a clear classification.
For the evening of the day of recording, PEGELONLINE exhibits 253 centimetres at the Konstanz level, measured on 28 September at 18:45 p.m. The common Lake Constance Information also mentions 2.53 meters above level and describes the situation in September as extremely low for the season. The 253 centimetres are no indication of the water depth of the lake or under the jump tower: a level is measured against a fixed reference point.
As far as the lake is below the usual seasonal level, the report by the Low Water Information Centre Baden-Württemberg of 23 September shows. For the previous day, it calls a daily average of 258 centimetres in constancy, which was 88 centimetres less than the average for this calendar day in the reference period 1991-2020.
According to information from the Information Centre, the Lake Constance reaches its annual minimum only in February or March. In 2026 it was already lower in September than in spring. The historical low of the s... [truncated for model]