River
Gomti River
900 km from source to mouth · India.
IndiaFlows into Ganges9th longest in India
In numbers
Length
900km
Average flow
230m³/s
Basin
30,437km²
Drop
100m
from 174 m to 74 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
900 km of river and 9 stops on the way: 5 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 174 m
- 0 kmPūranpur39,988 people
- 371 kmHardinge Bridge
- 374 kmThe Residency Lucknow
- 377 kmLucknow3,382,000 people
- 665 kmSultānpur110,368 people
- 828 kmShahi Bridge, Jaunpur
- 828 kmJaunpur169,572 people
- 846 kmZafarābād9,106 people
- 864 kmSaitributary
- 900 kmGangesat 74 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in India
At the mouth it carries 234 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 11 seconds. It drops from 174 m to 74 m, 0.1 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 30,437 km², about the size of BE. 26.8 million people live in it. Highest water: from August to September; lowest: January and from March to May. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- LucknowLargest city on its banks · 3,382,000 people
- Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport (LKO)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 11 km from the cityCar hire at AGR airport (Agra)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water2 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From November to MarchThe best months to visit
Gomti River, month by month
Highest water: from August to September
Lowest water: January and from March to May. Best months to visit: from November to March.
From about 16 m³/s in the lowest month to 720 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
Gomti River: the basin in numbers
29,967 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 26.8millionpeople live in the basin
- 891/km²people per km²
- 122maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,033mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 25.5°Caverage air temperature
What covers the basin
- 1% Forest
- 76% Cropland
- 1% Pasture
- 7% 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
Gomti River: what you find on the way
- 3WeirsGomti River Weir
- 2Ferry piers
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.1 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
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
Gomti River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
GangesIndia2,525 km12,000 m³/sTributaries (1)
Also: Sai
In the same basin
India2,900 km19,500 m³/sYamunaIndia1,376 km3,500 m³/sPadma River
Bangladesh120 km32,000 m³/sGandaki RiverIndia630 km1,800 m³/sChambal RiverIndia960 km600 m³/sJamuna RiverBangladesh245 km20,100 m³/sGhaghara RiverIndia1,080 km3,300 m³/sTeesta RiverBangladesh470 km1,300 m³/sKosi RiverIndia729 km2,300 m³/sSon RiverIndia780 km1,200 m³/sNearby
Rivers nearby
India1,376 km3,500 m³/s101 km awayWest Rapti RiverIndia600 km580 m³/s108 km awayGhaghara RiverIndia1,080 km3,300 m³/s180 km awayGandaki RiverIndia630 km1,800 m³/s232 km awaySon RiverIndia780 km1,200 m³/s204 km awaySharda RiverIndia350 km2,300 m³/s238 km awayBetwa RiverIndia590 km500 m³/s266 km awayTrishuli River
Nepal163 km1,000 m³/s280 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q477676) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed along the river network from the point 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 |
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