The monitoring network on this water

Hydrionis holds 2,632 values from 3 gauges on this water. Discharge is a property of a gauge and its reach, not of this water as a whole, so this page reports the network and its records rather than a single figure.

3
Gauges
2,632
Values held
1924–2026
Record spans
2,575 km²
Catchment above the deepest gauge

The seasonal shape

An annual mean says how much water a river carried. A monthly record says when — and on most rivers the difference between a wet winter and a dry summer is larger than the difference between one year and the next.

Monthly mean flow at Le Gave de Pau à Bérenx
Each month's mean discharge as the publisher computed it, which shows the seasonal shape an annual mean flattens away. 1924–2017.
Monthly mean flow at Le Gave de Pau à BérenxMonthly mean flow at Le Gave de Pau à Bérenx: Le Gave de Pau à Bérenx in m³/s, from 1924 to 2017.0100200300m³/s19241936195019621974198619982010

Taken as the publisher computes it rather than recomputed by Hydrionis from daily values: the publisher knows which of its readings passed validation. Months the gauge did not cover are absent rather than interpolated, and the line breaks where they fall.

What the shaded periods are (0 events)

Not shown on this chart

  • The 1976 drought — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
  • The 2022 drought — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
  • Yorkshire drought — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
  • Cantareira water crisis, São Paulo — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
  • Cape Town Day Zero — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
  • Hurricane Katrina water and sanitation collapse — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
View the data behind this chart
Underlying data
PeriodLe Gave de Pau à Bérenx (m³/s)
1924123
192524.4
192680.3
192797.8
1928102
192961.5
193085.9
1931120
193237.5
193350.9
193448.6
1935136
1936113
193726.2
193870.1
1939153
194045.7
194152.6
1942109
194391.2
194428.8
194598.3
194831.0
194929.9
195056.2
1951115
1952144
195381.3
195457.7
1955143
1956102
195756.1
195860.9
1959101
196086.1
1961192
196278.0
196376.8
196429.4
196593.0
1966109
1967116
1968170
196991.8
1970107
197159.6
1972125
197380.5
197473.5
197599.3
197654.0
197780.0
1978137
1979119
1980110
1981208
198294.4
198356.2
198483.5
198578.9
1986112
198793.3
1988155
198930.9
199029.6
199143.0
199251.1
199342.3
1994121
1995137
1996119
1997135
1998111
199999.9
200045.2
2001123
200234.9
2003133
2004178
200571.0
200663.2
200731.3
200879.3
200982.7
201086.4
201136.1
201260.7
2013152
2014156
201558.8
201698.5
201737.8

About this series

Everything below is a property of the data rather than a rating of it. There is deliberately no single confidence score: how much a gap matters depends on what you are about to do with the series, and only you know that.

Source
Office français de la biodiversité / SCHAPI — Hydrométrie — French river flow and stage · Licence Ouverte / Open Licence v2.0 (Etalab)
How the values came to existMeasured
Period held1924–2017
Completeness97.9% of the periods in that span are held. Gaps are drawn as breaks and never interpolated.
Known gaps
  • One period inside 1924–2017 holds no value: 1946 to 1947, 2 years with no reading. It is drawn as a break in the line and is never interpolated across.
ContinuityThe record begins in 1924 and is not continuous from it: 94 years separate the first value from the last, and 98% of the years between them are held. The span is not the record.
Last read from the publisher2026-10-01
RedistributionPermitted by the upstream licences
Commercial reusePermitted by the upstream licences. No Hydrionis access tier can widen this.
MethodologyHow this was produced

Every gauge Hydrionis holds here

Gauges on the Gave de Pau and what each holds
GaugeMeasuresValuesRecord
Le Gave de Pau à Bérenxmean monthly river flow1,0701924–2017
Le Gave de Pau à Saint-Pé-de-Bigorre [Rieulhes]mean monthly river flow7981960–2026
Le Gave de Pau à Sassis [Pescadères]mean monthly river flow7641960–2023

How these gauges were attached to this water

Named by the publisher Each gauge here names this water in the publisher’s own station record. Hydrionis has not inferred the connection from station names.

What each gauge’s link to this water rests on
GaugeEvidenceEstablished
Le Gave de Pau à BérenxStated by the publisher — Hub'Eau hydrometry site reference, libelle_cours_eau, code_cours_eau and surface_bv fields — https://hubeau.eaufrance.fr/api/v2/hydrometrie/referentiel/sites2026-10-02
Le Gave de Pau à Saint-Pé-de-Bigorre [Rieulhes]Stated by the publisher — Hub'Eau hydrometry site reference, libelle_cours_eau, code_cours_eau and surface_bv fields — https://hubeau.eaufrance.fr/api/v2/hydrometrie/referentiel/sites2026-10-02
Le Gave de Pau à Sassis [Pescadères]Stated by the publisher — Hub'Eau hydrometry site reference, libelle_cours_eau, code_cours_eau and surface_bv fields — https://hubeau.eaufrance.fr/api/v2/hydrometrie/referentiel/sites2026-10-02

What this record holds

Hydrionis decides which waters get a page, and which of those are offered to search, from what is actually held rather than from how the page reads. Five signals are counted; this record has 3 of them, which makes it a full profile.

Information-gain signals held for this water body
SignalHeldCounts
Gauges holding a real record3yes, 3 or more
Years spanned103yes, 20 or more
Values held2,632yes, 1000 or more
Distinct measurements1no
Publishers measuring it1no
Official identifiers2recorded, not counted

Use this data

Use this data

No bulk download is offered here, which is a licence position rather than a product one: at least one contributing publisher does not permit redistribution. The values can be read on the page, cited, and pointed to at source.

Attribution and citation

Attribution you are required to give

These are conditions of the licences the underlying data is published under. They are obligations to the publishers, not to Hydrionis, and they apply to you directly whether or not you mention Hydrionis at all.

Source: Hub’Eau / Système d’information sur l’eau, under Licence Ouverte (Etalab).

Suggested citation for Hydrionis

Hydrionis (2026), Gave de Pau gauge records, accessed 2026-10-05, hydrionis.com/waters/france-gave-de-pau/

Cite Hydrionis where you rely on the compilation, the normalisation, the eligibility judgements or a chart. Where you use an unmodified published value, the publisher’s attribution is the one that is required; crediting Hydrionis as well is welcome and is not something Hydrionis can require of you.

Recommended, not required. Hydrionis does not claim rights over unmodified public data it relayed, and doing arithmetic on somebody else’s measurements does not make them Hydrionis’s. Cite the version and the access date: the Gave de Pau gauge records changes as publishers release and as methods are revised, and a citation without both cannot be checked later. Full guidance is on cite and reuse.

Where these figures come from

MeasuredHigh confidenceMay 2017

Source: Hub'Eau — Hydrométrie — French river flow and stage, Q5501010. Licence: Open — attribution required (attribution required).

Method: Monthly mean discharge (QmM) computed by the publisher from its validated sub-hourly record, reported in litres per second and converted to cubic metres per second as they are collected. Where a site has been measured by more than one station, the station with the longest published series is used rather than blending stations whose values for the same month can differ.

Measured on Gave de Pau.

Retrieved 1 October 2026.