River
Chiers
112 km from source to mouth · France, Belgium and Luxembourg.
France, Belgium and LuxembourgFlows into Meuse
In numbers
Length
112km
Average flow
31m³/s
Basin
2,222km²
Drop
110m
from 261 m to 151 m
Countries
3
The journey
From source to mouth
112 km of river and 22 stops on the way: 19 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmOberkornat 261 m
- 0 kmAthus8,028 people
- 0 kmLamadelaine3,219 people
- 1 kmRodange7,774 people
- 1 kmAubange14,932 people
- 2 kmSaulnes2,529 people
- 4 kmLonglaville2,457 people
- 4 kmMont-Saint-Martin8,509 people
- 6 kmHerserange4,438 people
- 7 kmLongwy14,695 people
- 8 kmMexy2,056 people
- 10 kmRéhon3,287 people
- 13 kmLexy3,107 people
- 28 kmLonguyon5,773 people
- 53 kmOthaintributary
- 53 kmTontributary
- 55 kmMontmédy2,188 people
- 67 kmLoisontributary
- 90 kmBlagny1,267 people
- 92 kmCarignan3,249 people
- 103 kmPouru-Saint-Remy1,153 people
- 107 kmDouzy1,517 people
- 112 kmBazeilles2,108 people
- 112 kmMeuseat 151 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Luxembourg, France and Belgian border, mouth in Meuse river
At the mouth it carries 31 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 82 seconds. It drops from 261 m to 151 m, 1.0 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 2,222 km², about the size of KM. 381,000 people live in it. Highest water: from December to February. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- AubangeLargest city on its banks · 14,932 people
- Luxembourg-Findel International Airport (LUX)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 30 km from the cityCar hire at LUX airport (Luxembourg)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water2 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Chiers, month by month
Highest water: from December to February
Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 24 m³/s in the lowest month to 120 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
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The basin
Chiers: the basin in numbers
6,386 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 381,000people live in the basin
- 59/km²people per km²
- 301maverage altitude of the basin
- 849mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 9.2°Caverage air temperature
- 6%protected areas
What covers the basin
- 17% Forest
- 30% Cropland
- 24% Pasture
- 3% 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
Chiers: what you find on the way
- 17Weirs
- 3Locks
- 2Waterfalls
- 2Boat ramps
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.7 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Chiers in our other atlases
What our sister atlases know about the waterfalls on this river, the lakes it flows through, the beaches at its mouth, the mountains where it rises and the islands off its mouth.
5mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (5)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Mont St. Jean12 km away410m
- Gaalgebierg6.7 km away401m
- Zolwerknapp3.8 km away422m
- Titelberg4.7 km away397m
- Tattebierg13 km away316m
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
Chiers in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Meuse
The Netherlands950 km230 m³/sTributaries (9)
Also: Othain, Loison, Aulnois, Ton, Crusnes, Thonne, Marche, Messancy, Brüll
Nearby
Rivers nearby
GermanyWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q635969) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed from the source to the mouth 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 |
| Our other atlases | Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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