River
Fulda
218 km from source to mouth · Germany.
GermanyFlows into Weser
In numbers
Length
218km
Average flow
67m³/s
Basin
6,947km²
Drop
249m
from 372 m to 123 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
218 km of river and 23 stops on the way: 16 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 372 m
- 0 kmHilders4,973 people
- 9 kmTann4,695 people
- 23 kmGeisa3,561 people
- 40 kmUnterbreizbach4,102 people
- 42 kmVacha3,856 people
- 43 kmPhilippsthal4,570 people
- 55 kmHeringen7,146 people
- 69 kmGerstungen3,865 people
- 83 kmHerleshausen3,189 people
- 126 kmTreffurt6,206 people
- 139 kmWanfried4,398 people
- 150 kmLake Werratal0.6 km²
- 152 kmEschwege21,191 people
- 170 kmBad Sooden-Allendorf8,915 people
- 192 kmWitzenhausen16,055 people
- 217 kmWahnhausen lock
- 217 kmHann. Münden23,367 people
- 217 kmPionierbrücke
- 217 kmLöwenbrücke (Münden)
- 217 kmFuldatalbrücke Kragenhof
- 217 kmHannoversch Münden25,073 people
- 217 kmMünden Suspension Bridge
- 218 kmBurg Ziegenberg (Wilhelmshausen)
- 218 kmWeserat 123 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
Head river of the Weser in Hesse, Germany
At the mouth it carries 67 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 37 seconds. It drops from 372 m to 123 m, 1.1 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 6,947 km², about the size of PS. 666,000 people live in it. Highest water: from March to May and December. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- Hannoversch MündenLargest city on its banks · 25,073 people
- Kassel Airport (KSF)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 18 km from the cityCar hire at PAD airport (Büren)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water52 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- Kayak and canoe25 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- From June to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Fulda, month by month
Highest water: from March to May and December
Best months to visit: from June to September.
From about 18 m³/s in the lowest month to 96 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.
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The basin
Fulda: the basin in numbers
5,487 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 666,000people live in the basin
- 121/km²people per km²
- 402maverage altitude of the basin
- 699mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 7.5°Caverage air temperature
- 37%protected areas
- 0.1%covered by lakes
- 0.0km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 27% Forest
- 28% Cropland
- 11% 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
Fulda: what you find on the way
- 55WeirsWehrr Harnrode, Steinmühlenwehr, Wehr Mihla and 52 more
- 5LocksWerra, Fulda and 3 more
- 1Waterfalls
- 1Rapids
- 24Canoe put-insHeldra, Kanuanleger Völkershausen, Einsetzstelle Kleinfach and 21 more
- 41Boat rampsGerstungen, Freibad, Eisenach, OT Göringen, Eisenach, OT Wartha and 38 more
- 4Ferry piersWerranixe, Bootsanleger Witzenhausen, Schifffahrtslinie MS Weserstein and 1 more
- 3MarinasWassersportfreunde Mihla e.V., Alter Hafen Wanfried, Werratalsee Segelclub 1969 Eschwege
- 1River beachesBadestelle Ostufer
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.6 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
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Fulda 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
137mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Lake Werratalkm 1190.6km²
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Mountains at the source (137)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Wasserkuppe1.4 km away · prominence 584 m950m
- Kreuzberg14 km away · prominence 273 m928m
- Milseburg7.1 km away · prominence 175 m835m
- Dammersfeldkuppe12 km away · prominence 213 m928m
- Heidelstein5.3 km away · prominence 110 m926m
- Himmeldunkberg7.7 km away888m
- Mittelberg9.5 km away880m
- Eierhauckberg10 km away · prominence 125 m910m
129 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
Fulda in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
WeserGermany451 km330 m³/sTributaries (30)
Also: Haune, Jossa, Schlitz, Beise, Geisbach, Nieste, Losse, Drusel, Ahne, Solz, Fliede, Lüder, Espe, Giesel, Aula, Bauna, Rohrbach, Solz, Mülmisch, Lütter, Kehrenbach, Bebra, Ulfe, Pfieffe
Nearby
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Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q6434) · 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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