River
Prut
The Prut runs through Ukraine, Romania, and Moldova and has 10 stations on DanubeAlert, with no official forecast on this course. · Ukraine, Romania, Moldova
DanubeAlert follows the Prut at 10 stations in 3 countries: Ukraine, Romania, and Moldova.
- Stations with a fresh reading
- 8/ 10
- Active alerts
- 82
- Last update
- 05/11/2026
Prut in Ukraine5 stations
Country page: Ukraine →- 0cm± 0 cm today
- 159cm▲ +2 cm today
- 115cm▼ −1 cm today
- 177cm± 0 cm today
- 148cm▼ −2 cm today
Prut in Romania1 station
Country page: Romania →- 22cm2 days ago
Prut in Moldova4 stations
Country page: Moldova →- 203cm5 days ago
- 64cm▼ −1 cm today
- −3cm▼ −4 cm today
- −42cm± 0 cm today
Statistics by country
Full statistics →| Country | stations | below LDC today | above HDC today | Year extremes | latest reading |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ukraine | 5 | — | — | — | |
| Romania | 1 | — | — | — | |
| Moldova | 4 | — | — | — |
Minimum and maximum are the years with the largest share of station-days below LDC, respectively above HDC, among the years with thresholds. The complete year-by-year tables are on the statistics page.
Datasets for this river: CSV and JSON for each country
Frequently asked questions
- Which gauges does the Prut have on the platform?
- Ten, in three countries: Rădăuți-Prut in Romania, Braniște, Cahul, Șirăuți and Ungheni in Moldova, plus five in Ukraine. The Moldovan series starts in 2013, and 2026 holds 606 station-days there.
- What does the Prut level read at the gauges today?
- On 26 October 2026: Braniște 205 cm, Cahul 74, Șirăuți -9 and Ungheni -44; at Rădăuți-Prut the last reading, from 25 October, was 11 cm. A negative figure means water below the gauge zero, not a dry river.
- Which official thresholds does the Prut have?
- The platform shows no LDC or HDC for the Prut, but the official marks exist: the flood mark at Oroftiana and the attention mark at Rădăuți-Prut. On 15 June 2020 the water at Oroftiana stood 120 cm above the flood mark, and at Rădăuți-Prut 41 cm above the attention mark.
- How big were the Prut floods?
- The floods of 2008, 2010 and 2020 damaged levees on the lower course. On 24 June 2020 more than 80 people were evacuated from Baranca, and in 2008 almost 400 had been evacuated from Rădăuți-Prut, with more than 350 houses flooded in Botoșani.
- How low can the Prut fall?
- At Șirăuți the August 2012 runoff was 26.7% of normal, the August 2015 one 28.3%, and the April 2007 one 36.7%. On 28 September 2026 the Stânca–Costești reservoir had reached 82.22 m, 72 cm above the level from which water can no longer be released.
- Can you navigate the Prut?
- Today navigation stops at Leova; in the interwar period boats went up to Ungheni. The Stânca–Costești dam, 43 m high, has closed the river since 1978 and regulates the discharge, without stopping the floods.
- How is the model forecast read for the Prut?
- Not one of the ten gauges carries a model forecast, and the platform does not fill gaps in the series with a model. What it computes are thresholds from its own series: at Șirăuți, 14 years of readings give -18 cm for low water and 112 cm for high water.