River
Eder
177 km from source to mouth · Germany.
GermanyFlows into Fulda
In numbers
Length
177km
Average flow
24m³/s
Basin
3,362km²
Drop
292m
from 437 m to 145 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
177 km of river and 24 stops on the way: 11 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmEder Quelleat 437 m
- 36 kmOdeborntributary
- 38 kmHatzfeld2,939 people
- 49 kmElsofftributary
- 59 kmBattenberg5,703 people
- 62 kmAllendorf5,719 people
- 68 kmLinspherbachtributary
- 76 kmFrankenberg17,635 people
- 78 kmNuhnetributary
- 88 kmOrketributary
- 101 kmVöhl6,296 people
- 118 kmWaldeck7,785 people
- 119 kmEdersee9.1 km²
- 124 kmEdertal6,223 people
- 124 kmAffolderner See1.2 km²
- 127 kmWerbetributary
- 131 kmWesebachtributary
- 135 kmWildetributary
- 142 kmElbetributary
- 142 kmFritzlar14,503 people
- 153 kmWabern7,708 people
- 159 kmSchwalmtributary
- 161 kmFelsberg11,219 people
- 174 kmGuxhagen5,433 people
- 176 kmEmstributary
- 177 kmFuldaat 145 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
Tributary river of the Fulda in Germany
At the mouth it carries 24 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 104 seconds. It drops from 437 m to 145 m, 1.6 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 3,362 km², about the size of CV. 346,000 people live in it. Highest water: February. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (20% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- FrankenbergLargest city on its banks · 17,635 people
- Kassel Airport (KSF)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 57 km from the cityCar hire at PAD airport (Büren)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water21 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- Kayak and canoe15 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- From June to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Eder, month by month
Highest water: February
Best months to visit: from June to September.
From about 12 m³/s in the lowest month to 69 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
Eder: the basin in numbers
3,319 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 346,000people live in the basin
- 104/km²people per km²
- 379maverage altitude of the basin
- 854mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 7.9°Caverage air temperature
- 23%protected areas
- 0.4%covered by lakes
- 0.2km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 34% Forest
- 26% Cropland
- 17% Pasture
- 4% 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
Eder: what you find on the way
- 47WeirsEderwehr, Stauklappe, Wehr Rhünda-Altenburg and 44 more
- 5LocksFulda Schleusenkanal and 4 more
- 15Canoe put-ins
- 8Boat rampsSlipstelle für Jollen, Kanu Anlegestelle and 6 more
- 9Ferry piersBringhausen, Halbinsel Scheid, Waldeck, Strandbad and 6 more
- 1River beaches
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.5 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Eder 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.
2lakes on its wayLakeyas
188mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (2)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Ederseekm 999.1km²
- Affolderner Seekm 1041.2km²
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Mountains at the source (188)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Ebschloh5.8 km away686m
- Jagd-Berg7.2 km away676m
- Oberste Henn0.9 km away676m
- Riemen9.3 km away678m
- Eichholzkopf11 km away610m
- Pfaffenhain5.2 km away658m
- Eder-Kopf0.7 km away650m
- Großer Ahlertsberg12 km away645m
180 more on PeakyasOpen Peakyas ↗
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
Eder in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
FuldaGermany218 km67 m³/sTributaries (25)
Also: Schwalm, Elsoff, Nuhne, Benfe, Linspherbach, Odeborn, Orke, Wilde, Elbe, Wesebach, Werbe, Ems, Trüfte, Netze, Itter, Klingebach, Pilgerbach, Röspe, Elberndorfer-Bach, Goldbach, Osterbach, Lengelbach, Lorfe, Bohner-Bach
Nearby
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Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q685585) · 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, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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