Welcome to the National River Flow Archive
The National River Flow Archive (NRFA) is the UK’s focal point for river flow data.
The NRFA collates, quality controls, and archives hydrometric data from gauging station networks across the UK including the extensive networks operated by the Environment Agency (England), Natural Resources Wales, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency and the Rivers Agency (Northern Ireland).
River flow data for ~400 gauging stations can be downloaded from this website. Data for a further ~1000 gauging stations can be requested via our manual retrieval service. The data are available free-of-charge for academic research or educational uses.
- Search for gauging stations, download river flow data, and access station and catchment information
- Find out about the data stored by the NRFA
- Find reports on current hydrological conditions, the status of water resources, and recent major flood and drought events
- Find out about the measurement of river flows in the UK
UK Hydrological summary for April 2013 published - 15 May 2013
April was a notably cool month with rainfall close to the long-term average at the national scale – but spatial variations in precipitation totals were large and appreciable deficits have become established in some regions over the first four months of 2013.
Further details can be found here.
2011 river flow data available from NRFA
Following completion of the annual submission and data quality control programme, river flow data from 2011 is now available for some gauging stations on the NRFA. Data from other gauging stations will follow once data validation and processing is complete.
Find a station of interest using our gauging station search page.
New NRFA download service for NRFA catchment boundary data- 26 November 2012
The NRFA has released a new service allowing users to download catchment boundary data for UK gauging stations. Available via the ‘spatial data’ table on each gauging station page, the new service has been developed alongside the export facility for catchment maps which was launched in May 2012.
View an example spatial data page to try it out.
Find a station of interest using our gauging station search page.
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