River
Loing
143 km from source to mouth · France.
FranceFlows into Seine
In numbers
Length
143km
Average flow
19m³/s
Basin
4,182km²
Drop
122m
from 167 m to 45 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
143 km of river and 68 stops on the way: 50 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSainte-Colombe-sur-Loingat 167 m
- 0 kmSaint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye905 people
- 0 kmMoutiers-en-Puisaye268 people
- 0 kmSainte-Colombe-sur-Loing201 people
- 0 kmTreigny-Perreuse-Sainte-Colombe1,083 people
- 10 kmSaint-Fargeau1,439 people
- 10 kmSaint-Martin-des-Champs258 people
- 14 kmSaint-Privé515 people
- 14 kmBléneau1,153 people
- 20 kmChampignelles1,075 people
- 34 kmCharny1,796 people
- 43 kmDouchy1,048 people
- 50 kmTriguères1,210 people
- 54 kmChâteau-Renard2,296 people
- 57 kmChâtillon-Coligny1,894 people
- 59 kmSainte-Geneviève-des-Bois1,054 people
- 59 kmMontbouy725 people
- 59 kmPont de Montbouy
- 63 kmGy-les-Nonains604 people
- 64 kmSaint-Germain-des-Prés1,814 people
- 69 kmMontcresson1,262 people
- 70 kmConflans-sur-Loing364 people
- 70 kmOuannetributary
- 73 kmAmilly13,582 people
- 76 kmVillemandeur6,498 people
- 77 kmPont de la Chaussée
- 77 kmMontargis14,825 people
- 79 kmChâlette-sur-Loing12,677 people
- 81 kmSolintributary
- 81 kmBezondetributary
- 82 kmCorquilleroy2,272 people
- 84 kmCepoy2,332 people
- 86 kmGirolles596 people
- 86 kmViaduc du Loing
- 93 kmFontenay-sur-Loing1,659 people
- 94 kmClérytributary
- 94 kmNargis1,422 people
- 98 kmDordives3,277 people
- 101 kmFusaintributary
- 102 kmChâteau-Landon3,149 people
- 104 kmSouppes-sur-Loing4,952 people
- 106 kmViaduc de Beaumoulin
- 107 kmLa Madeleine-sur-Loing347 people
- 111 kmBagneaux-sur-Loing1,570 people
- 116 kmSaint-Pierre-lès-Nemours5,401 people
- 116 kmGreat Bridge of Nemours
- 116 kmNemours12,889 people
- 117 kmDarvault987 people
- 118 kmCharles-Hochart Bridge
- 122 kmGrez-sur-Loing1,432 people
- 123 kmbridge of Grez-sur-Loing
- 123 kmBourron-Marlotte2,774 people
- 124 kmMoncourt-Fromonville1,891 people
- 128 kmLa Genevraye840 people
- 129 kmMontigny-sur-Loing2,669 people
- 132 kmLunaintributary
- 137 kmÉcuelles2,815 people
- 138 kmMoret-Loing-et-Orvanne12,810 people
- 138 kmPont aqueduc de la Vanne à Moret-sur-Loing
- 138 kmOrvannetributary
- 139 kmpont de Moret
- 139 kmVernou-la-Celle-sur-Seine2,742 people
- 140 kmMoret-sur-Loing4,188 people
- 140 kmviaduc de Saint-Mammès
- 141 kmSaint-Mammès3,162 people
- 141 kmVeneux-les-Sablons5,091 people
- 142 kmfootbridge of Saint-Mammès
- 142 kmChampagne-sur-Seine6,608 people
- 142 kmThomery3,288 people
- 143 kmSeineat 45 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in France
At the mouth it carries 19 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 132 seconds. It drops from 167 m to 45 m, 0.9 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 4,182 km², about the size of CV. 246,000 people live in it. Highest water: from December to February. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- MontargisLargest city on its banks · 14,825 people
- Paris-Orly Airport (ORY)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 86 km from the cityCar hire at ORY airport (Paris)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water16 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Loing, month by month
Highest water: from December to February
Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 10 m³/s in the lowest month to 45 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
Loing: the basin in numbers
4,149 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 246,000people live in the basin
- 60/km²people per km²
- 147maverage altitude of the basin
- 670mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 10.8°Caverage air temperature
- 2%protected areas
- 0.2%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 8% Forest
- 55% Cropland
- 5% Pasture
- 2% 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
Loing: what you find on the way
- 45WeirsPertuis du Repos, Déversoir du Solin, Déversoir de Nargis and 42 more
- 92LocksCanal de Briare, Écluse de la Sablonnière, Écluse de La Folie and 89 more
- 1Waterfalls
- 3Boat ramps
- 11MarinasPort Saint-Roch, halte de Chalette-sur-Loing, Halte (auberge de jeunesse) and 8 more
- 1River beachesPlagette d'Amilly
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.6 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Loing 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.
1mountain at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (1)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Montagne des Alouettes5.8 km away367m
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
Loing in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
SeineFrance777 km500 m³/sTributaries (13)
Also: Lunain, Ouanne, Puiseaux, Solin, Orvanne, Cléry, Aveyron, Fusain, Betz, Bezonde, Milleron, Beaune, Ru Simon
Nearby
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Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q249062) · 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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