River
Bzura
166 km from source to mouth · Poland.
PolandFlows into Vistula
In numbers
Length
166km
Average flow
26m³/s
Basin
7,788km²
Drop
49m
from 109 m to 60 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
166 km of river and 13 stops on the way: 4 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 109 m
- 23 kmKutno48,323 people
- 52 kmOchniatributary
- 52 kmMoszczenicatributary
- 75 kmMrogatributary
- 93 kmSłudwia Rivertributary
- 96 kmŁowicz29,809 people
- 102 kmSkierniewkatributary
- 116 kmRawkatributary
- 131 kmPisiatributary
- 135 kmFeliksa Kozubowskiego Bridge
- 135 kmSochaczew38,267 people
- 139 kmUtratatributary
- 165 kmWyszogród2,456 people
- 166 kmVistulaat 60 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Poland
At the mouth it carries 26 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 98 seconds. It drops from 109 m to 60 m, 0.3 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 7,788 km², about the size of PR. 1.2 million people live in it. Highest water: from March to May; lowest: from January to February. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- KutnoLargest city on its banks · 48,323 people
- Łódź Władysław Reymont Airport (LCJ)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 57 km from the cityCar hire at WMI airport (Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water7 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Bzura, month by month
Highest water: from March to May
Lowest water: from January to February. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): January. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 18 m³/s in the lowest month to 68 m³/s in the highest. An estimate: the monthly flow is modelled from the lowest and highest months of WaterGAP (RiverATLAS, 1971–2000) and the rain and snow along the river (WorldClim). Dams change the real rhythm. The chip is the average air temperature; below it, the month's rain.
Plan the trip
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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The basin
Bzura: the basin in numbers
7,147 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 1.2millionpeople live in the basin
- 162/km²people per km²
- 124maverage altitude of the basin
- 533mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 7.9°Caverage air temperature
- 16%protected areas
- 0.2%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 7% Forest
- 61% Cropland
- 13% Pasture
- 8% Towns and cities
RiverATLAS (HydroATLAS v1.0, CC BY 4.0): land cover, people, protected areas, glaciers and dams over the whole basin upstream of the mouth.
Along the river
Bzura: what you find on the way
- 8Weirs
- 1Boat rampsPrzystań w Wyszogrodzie
- 2MarinasMotoprzystań
- 3River beachesPlaża miejska, Plaża, Town beach
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.7 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
From space
The source and the mouth, seen from orbit
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016), CC BY 4.0. The glowing line is the river as drawn by RiverATLAS.
Photos
Bzura in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
VistulaPoland1,047 km1,100 m³/sTributaries (10)
Also: Rawka, Moszczenica, Słudwia River, Utrata, Pisia, Sokołówka, Skierniewka, Mroga, Ochnia, Sucha
Nearby
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Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q656640) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed along the river network from the point given by Wikidata |
| Flow | WaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Climate along the river | WorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Towns, bridges, dams | Wikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0 |
| Along the river | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
Every source and licence is on the data sources page.
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