River
Hunte
189 km from source to mouth · Germany.
GermanyFlows into Weser
In numbers
Length
189km
Average flow
450m³/s
Basin
2,785km²
Drop
70m
from 67 m to -3 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
189 km of river and 27 stops on the way: 23 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 67 m
- 10 kmBünde46,365 people
- 13 kmKirchlengern16,338 people
- 15 kmLöhne39,521 people
- 17 kmObernbeck6,523 people
- 23 kmBad Oeynhausen49,513 people
- 30 kmPorta Westfalica36,364 people
- 34 kmMinden82,879 people
- 43 kmPetershagen27,090 people
- 63 kmStolzenau7,473 people
- 73 kmLiebenau4,009 people
- 81 kmNienburg32,629 people
- 83 kmMarklohe4,396 people
- 99 kmEystrup3,394 people
- 104 kmHoya3,959 people
- 110 kmDörverden9,710 people
- 125 kmLangwedel14,755 people
- 134 kmAchim32,870 people
- 136 kmThedinghausen4,727 people
- 152 kmNeue Weser0.6 km²
- 155 kmBremen546,501 people
- 169 kmVegesack34,757 people
- 170 kmLemwerder7,125 people
- 178 kmHubbrücke Huntebrück
- 179 kmElsfleth railway bridge
- 180 kmElsfleth9,310 people
- 180 kmOllentributary
- 188 kmBrake (Unterweser)16,150 people
- 189 kmWeserat -3 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Germany
At the mouth it carries 448 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 5.6 seconds. It drops from 67 m to -3 m, 0.4 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 2,785 km², about the size of LU. 8.5 million people live in it. Highest water: from December to February. Its dams hold back little of its water (3.0% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- BremenLargest city on its banks · 546,501 people
- Bremen Airport (BRE)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 3 km from the cityCar hire at BRE airport (Bremen)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water183 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- Kayak and canoe11 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- From June to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Hunte, month by month
Highest water: from December to February
Best months to visit: from June to September.
From about 190 m³/s in the lowest month to 870 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
Hunte: the basin in numbers
44,775 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 8.5millionpeople live in the basin
- 191/km²people per km²
- 197maverage altitude of the basin
- 740mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 8.3°Caverage air temperature
- 33%protected areas
- 0.3%covered by lakes
- 0.4km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 20% Forest
- 35% Cropland
- 12% Pasture
- 10% 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
Hunte: what you find on the way
- 85WeirsOberbehme, Mühlenwerk 1857, Löhne and 82 more
- 23LocksUnterschleuse Minden, Oberschleuse, Schleuse Minden (Weserschleuse) and 20 more
- 2WaterfallsGerman swamp
- 2Rapids
- 9Canoe put-insÜber Mühlenwerk 1857, Unter Mühlenwerk 1857, Kanuclub Löhne and 6 more
- 84Boat rampsSlip Vössen, Sportboothafen Hoya, Slipanlage and 81 more
- 27Ferry piersAnlegestelle Petershagen, Fähranleger, Fähranleger Ahsen and 24 more
- 65MarinasSegelverein Weserbogen, Motorboot-Club Minden e.V., WSV Landesbergen and 62 more
- 8River beachesWeserstrand, Badestrand Ovenstädt, Strand and 5 more
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.2 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Hunte 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
40mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Neue Weserkm 2020.6km²
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Mountains at the source (40)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Nonnenstein9.3 km away274m
- Schwarzer Brink7.8 km away211m
- Maschberg11 km away190m
- Beutling14 km away220m
- Limberg12 km away190m
- Großer Kellenberg7.8 km away211m
- Wester-Berg7.8 km away
- Born5.5 km away
32 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
Hunte in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
WeserGermany451 km330 m³/sTributaries (8)
Also: Lethe, Dadau, Haaren, Wagenfelder Aue, Heiligenloher Beeke, Ollen, Grawiede, Aue
Nearby
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Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q708447) · 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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