River
Luni River
495 km from source to mouth · India.
IndiaFlows into Rann of Kutch
In numbers
Length
495km
Average flow
150m³/s
Basin
37,363km²
Drop
258m
from 264 m to 6 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
495 km of river and 2 stops on the way: 2 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 264 m
- 169 kmSamdari17,915 people
- 216 kmBalotra74,496 people
- 495 kmRann of Kutchat 6 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 154 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 16 seconds. It drops from 264 m to 6 m, 0.5 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 37,363 km², about the size of GW. 10.6 million people live in it. Highest water: from August to September; lowest: from January to April. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- BalotraLargest city on its banks · 74,496 people
- Jodhpur Airport (JDH)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 93 km from the cityCar hire at UDR airport (Udaipur)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From November to MarchThe best months to visit
Luni River, month by month
Highest water: from August to September
Lowest water: from January to April. Best months to visit: from November to March.
From about 6.8 m³/s in the lowest month to 690 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
Luni River: the basin in numbers
63,176 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 10.6millionpeople live in the basin
- 168/km²people per km²
- 228maverage altitude of the basin
- 356mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 26.5°Caverage air temperature
- 2%protected areas
- 0.1%covered by lakes
- 0.1km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 2% Forest
- 79% Cropland
- 4% 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
Luni River: what you find on the way
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.3 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
Luni River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (2)
Also: Sukri River, Jawai River
In the same basin
PakistanWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q289273) · 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 |
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