Accurate estimates of interception are important to assess the water availability in ecosystems. We analyzed rainfall interception for a forest site from plot to stand scale. During interception, eddy-covariance measurements of evaporation were systematically underestimated accounting for 24 % of precipitation, while modelled interception evaporation accounted for 45 %. As a consequence, we developed a hybrid correction approach to fit the evaporation data to both the energy and the water balance.