6a07f533-bfee-5899-9a41-dc2d3516d1fe · GBSOU · Northern Europe

Ocean Village

Southampton, United Kingdom · 50.896°N 1.392°W

CRUISINGADVISEDOPERATIONAL

A locked marina in the Southampton Water system. Tides, lock cycles and the Marchwood / container-port neighbours define arrivals. Cowes is the Solent stage; this is the city-and-crew-change harbour.

Live channels · not a chart · not a reservation

Estimate

Overcast at 2026-08-27T01:15 Europe/London. Wind 6 kn from ENE, gusts 14 kn. It is after local sunset. If this harbour publishes a night-entry restriction, treat it as active until sunrise. Model significant wave 0.1 m from SE — coastal model, not a harbour sounding. SST 21.2 °C.

Wind
6 kn ENE
Gusts
14 kn
Waves
0.1 m
Twilight
Night

Max LOA

40 m

Reported

Max draft

3.2 m

Reported

VHF

80

Verified

August band

HIGH

Estimate

Traffic & operations history

Traffic is not availability. Capacity is not occupancy. A reservation flag is not a live berth. EMODnet density is historical context. Forecast is deferred.

Current traffic

AIS_NOT_CONFIGUREDUNKNOWN

AIS is not configured. Approach counts are not invented.

UNKNOWN because: AIS_NOT_CONFIGURED — congestion is not inferred from compiled peak labels.

Declared capacity

350 compiled class berths · Class counts are not physical HarborBerth rows and not current availability.

Observed occupancy

INSUFFICIENT_DATA. No percentage is shown because coverage does not support it.

Seasonality

HIGH Cowes Week overflow and summer weekends

Forecast DEFERRED. Insufficient observed history, no backtest, no baseline comparison. Forecast deferred is a successful outcome.

Recent derived calls

No multi-ping VesselCall is derived from current observations.