River
Dubysa
146 km from source to mouth · Lithuania.
LithuaniaFlows into Neman8th longest in Lithuania
In numbers
Length
146km
Average flow
20m³/s
Basin
1,973km²
Drop
88m
from 99 m to 11 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
146 km of river and 9 stops on the way: 1 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmBubiai Reservoirat 99 m
- 0 kmBubiai Reservoir3.8 km²
- 41 kmLapišėtributary
- 44 kmDratvuotributary
- 55 kmLyduvėnai Bridge
- 103 kmKirkšnovėtributary
- 109 kmAriogala3,653 people
- 118 kmPalonastributary
- 139 kmSeredžius Bridge
- 140 kmLazduonatributary
- 146 kmNemanat 11 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Lithuania, tributary of Neman
At the mouth it carries 20 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 124 seconds. It drops from 99 m to 11 m, 0.6 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 1,973 km², about the size of MU. 3.9 million people live in it. Highest water: from April to June; lowest: from January to March. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (11% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- AriogalaLargest city on its banks · 3,653 people
- Kaunas International Airport (KUN)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 51 km from the cityCar hire at KUN airport (Kaunas)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water1 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- Kayak and canoe1 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to AugustThe best months to visit
Dubysa, month by month
Highest water: from April to June
Lowest water: from January to March. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from January to February. Best months to visit: from May to August.
From about 270 m³/s in the lowest month to 1,500 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
Dubysa: the basin in numbers
79,131 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 3.9millionpeople live in the basin
- 49/km²people per km²
- 152maverage altitude of the basin
- 638mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 6.2°Caverage air temperature
- 14%protected areas
- 1.2%covered by lakes
- 1.8km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 32% Forest
- 37% Cropland
- 11% Pasture
- 2% 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
Dubysa: what you find on the way
- 3Weirs
- 1Waterfalls
- 1Rapids
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.3 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Dubysa 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.
1lake on its wayLakeyas
Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Bubiai Reservoirkm 03.8km²
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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
Dubysa in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
NemanLithuania937 km680 m³/sTributaries (12)
Also: Windawski Canal, Gryžuva, Kražantė, Gynėvė, Lapišė, Dratvuo, Kirkšnovė, Luknė, Lazduona, Mūkė, Palonas, Lelykas
BelarusNearby
Rivers nearby
Lithuania510 km180 m³/s35 km awayNevėžisLithuania210 km33 m³/s26 km awayŠventojiLithuania246 km55 m³/s62 km awayJūraLithuania172 km42 m³/s85 km awayMerkysLithuania206 km33 m³/s114 km awayCzarna HańczaLithuania145 km220 m³/s128 km awayVilniaLithuania80 km5.6 m³/s131 km awayMinijaLithuania202 km15 m³/s137 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1263309) · 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 | Lakeyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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