River
Enns
254 km from source to mouth · Austria.
AustriaFlows into Danube2nd longest in Austria
In numbers
Length
254km
Average flow
200m³/s
Basin
6,000km²
Drop
621m
from 861 m to 240 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
254 km of river and 19 stops on the way: 11 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 861 m
- 6 kmAltenmarkt im Pongau4,218 people
- 31 kmSchladming3,452 people
- 36 kmTalbachtributary
- 53 kmGröbming3,013 people
- 73 kmDonnersbachtributary
- 80 kmGullingtributary
- 88 kmLiezen6,587 people
- 99 kmPaltentributary
- 144 kmSalzatributary
- 158 kmCataracts of Laussabach
- 174 kmWeyer3,296 people
- 206 kmTernberg3,367 people
- 209 kmFallerbach
- 221 kmUntere Ennsbrücke
- 221 kmSteyr38,331 people
- 227 kmHaidershofen3,670 people
- 242 kmSankt Valentin9,340 people
- 246 kmEnns9,812 people
- 247 kmEnnsdorf3,031 people
- 254 kmDanubeat 240 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Austria
At the mouth it carries 195 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 13 seconds. It drops from 861 m to 240 m, 2.4 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 6,000 km², about the size of PS. 12.2 million people live in it. Highest water: from March to May; lowest: from January to February. Its dams hold back little of its water (3.5% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- SteyrLargest city on its banks · 38,331 people
- Linz-Hörsching Airport (LNZ)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 28 km from the cityCar hire at LNZ airport (Linz)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water29 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- Kayak and canoe3 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- From June to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Enns, month by month
Highest water: from March to May
Lowest water: from January to February. Best months to visit: from June to September.
From about 1,100 m³/s in the lowest month to 2,400 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
Enns: the basin in numbers
90,261 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 12.2millionpeople live in the basin
- 136/km²people per km²
- 842maverage altitude of the basin
- 999mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 6.4°Caverage air temperature
- 27%protected areas
- 0.6%covered by lakes
- 1%permafrost
- 1.9km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 56% Forest
- 22% Cropland
- 21% Pasture
- 6% 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
Enns: what you find on the way
- 260WeirsStufe Schladming, Sohlschwelle Weißenbach, ehemalige Bruckgrabenklause and 257 more
- 38WaterfallsLuserwasserfall, Wasserfall Hölleiten, Faller Wasserfall and 35 more
- 2Rapids
- 1Canoe put-ins
- 18Boat rampsGesäuse - Eisenbahnbrücke, Gofer, Slipanlage FF Kleinreifling and 15 more
- 4Ferry piersAnlegestelle St. Pantaleon, Anlegestelle Mauthausen, Anlegestelle Enns and 1 more
- 5MarinasEnnskraftwerke, Segelclub Seeadler and 3 more
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.4 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Enns 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.
2waterfalls on the riverCascadyas
97mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Waterfalls (2)
On the river, by Cascadyas
- Cataracts of Laussabachkm 148
- Fallerbachkm 196
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Mountains at the source (97)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Weißeck9.9 km away2,711m
- Mosermandl5.3 km away2,680m
- Hochfeind12 km away2,687m
- Faulkogel3.8 km away2,654m
- Kleine Guglspitze11 km away2,683m
- Frauennock15 km away2,678m
- Schwarzeck13 km away2,636m
- Rothorn4.8 km away2,522m
89 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
Enns in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Danube
Romania2,850 km5,400 m³/sTributaries (19)
Also: Steyr, Salza, Erzbach, Northern Taurach, Palten, Reichramingbach, Gulling, Grimming, Laussabach, Salzabach, Wörschachbach, Talbach, Donnersbach, Mandling, Forstaubach, Pleißlingbach, Gaflenzbach, Sölkbach, Dietachbach
Serbia
Croatia
Germany
MoldovaNearby
Rivers nearby
CzechiaWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q217524) · 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 | Cascadyas, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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