River
Little Danube
128 km from source to mouth · Slovakia.
SlovakiaFlows into Váh7th longest in Slovakia
In numbers
Length
128km
Average flow
13m³/s
Basin
3,173km²
Drop
22m
from 127 m to 105 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
128 km of river and 16 stops on the way: 14 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 127 m
- 6 kmZálesie2,297 people
- 8 kmMost pri Bratislave4,608 people
- 9 kmMalinovo4,201 people
- 17 kmNová Dedinka3,679 people
- 17 kmDedinka pri Dunaji3,309 people
- 21 kmTomášov2,851 people
- 27 kmTureň1,303 people
- 29 kmJaníky974 people
- 32 kmHrubý Šúr1,130 people
- 46 kmNový Život2,298 people
- 52 kmJelka3,998 people
- 86 kmČierna Vodatributary
- 99 kmTrstice3,876 people
- 104 kmTopoľníky3,135 people
- 125 kmRoad bridge over the Malý Dunaj in Kolárovo
- 125 kmKolárovo10,470 people
- 128 kmVáhat 105 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Slovakia
At the mouth it carries 13 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 199 seconds. It drops from 127 m to 105 m, 0.2 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 3,173 km², about the size of LU. 548,000 people live in it. Highest water: February. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- KolárovoLargest city on its banks · 10,470 people
- M. R. Štefánik Airport (BTS)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 64 km from the cityCar hire at BTS airport (Bratislava)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water34 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- Kayak and canoe1 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Little Danube, month by month
Highest water: February
Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 5.6 m³/s in the lowest month to 29 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
Little Danube: the basin in numbers
3,312 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 548,000people live in the basin
- 166/km²people per km²
- 182maverage altitude of the basin
- 634mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 9.5°Caverage air temperature
- 14%protected areas
- 0.2%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 13% Forest
- 69% Cropland
- 4% Pasture
- 9% 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
Little Danube: what you find on the way
- 12Weirs
- 1Canoe put-ins
- 29Boat rampsZlatá rybka, Tomášov, Vlky and 26 more
- 3MarinasLodenica Zálesie
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.5 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Little Danube 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.
12mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (12)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Devínska Kobyla13 km away · prominence 300 m514m
- Veľký Javorník15 km away594m
- Kamzík7.3 km away439m
- Braunsberg15 km away · prominence 185 m346m
- Malý Javorník14 km away584m
- Hindlerberg9.6 km away · prominence 95 m344m
- Malinský vrch13 km away424m
- Malá Baňa10 km away361m
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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
Little Danube in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
VáhSlovakia433 km150 m³/sTributaries (1)
Also: Čierna Voda
Romania
Serbia
Croatia
Germany
Moldova
AustriaNearby
Rivers nearby
HungaryWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q937294) · 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 | Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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