Tous reservoir

Júcar river · Júcar Basin · dam built in 1996 · latest official reading: 6 October 2026.

Fill level
11.1 %
−0.3 points this week
Stored volume
42 hm³
Capacity
379 hm³
Historical average, this week
15.2 %
−4.1 points vs today

How the Tous reservoir stands right now

Tous is currently at 11.1 % of capacity, about normal for the time of year. The week-41 average across 27 years of records is 15.2 %, a difference of −4.1 points.

For context: a year ago it stood at 14.8 % and a month ago at 18.2 %. Against last week’s reading it is falling (−0.3 points).

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Blue line: average monthly filling across the whole record, from 1999. The dot marks today’s reading, 11.1 % in October.

The yearly cycle of Tous

With 1,441 weekly readings since 1999, the average pattern of Tous is clear: it peaks in May at 41.0 % and bottoms out in September at 15.4 %. That 26-point range makes it a reservoir with a marked annual swing, typical of heavy irrigation use.

Highs and lows since 1999

The highest reading in the whole series is 72.8 %, on 17 May 2011, and the lowest 4.0 %, on 22 September 2026. Comparing today against those two extremes says more than the bare percentage: 50 % is good news in a pool that rarely tops 60 %, and bad news in one that is usually full.

Its weight within the Júcar basin

At 379 hm³ of capacity it is the second largest of the 23 dams the bulletin tracks in the Júcar basin, holding 13.3 % of the whole demarcation’s capacity on its own. The basin as a whole is at 51.9 % today, so this reservoir is running below the basin as a whole.

Specifications

River
Júcar
Demarcation
Júcar Basin
Name in the bulletin
Tous - La Ribera
Usable capacity
379 hm³
Volume at the last reading
42 hm³
Fill level
11.1 %
Weekly change
−0.3 points
Rank in the basin
2 of 23 dams
Rank in Spain
35 of 375 dams
Main use
Irrigation and supply
Dam completed
1996
Record available
since 2 March 1999 (1,441 readings)
Last updated
6 October 2026

Where it is

Where these figures come from

The figures on this page come from the official MITECO reservoir archive, the same database behind Spain’s weekly hydrological bulletin. The bulletin covers every mainland reservoir above 5 hm³ of capacity and is published every Tuesday with Monday’s reading.

The latest reading here is from 6 October 2026, and the comparison series starts in 1999. Nothing is estimated, interpolated or forecast: the percentage is stored volume divided by the usable capacity the bulletin itself assigns to the dam. Historical averages are computed over the same calendar week in every previous year, the only fair comparison in a system with such marked seasonality.

Other reservoirs in the Júcar basin

See the whole demarcation, with all 23 dams the bulletin tracks: Júcar Basin.