River
Lusatian Nysa
254 km from source to mouth · Germany, Czechia and Poland.
Germany, Czechia and PolandFlows into Oder
In numbers
Length
254km
Average flow
30m³/s
Basin
4,297km²
Drop
338m
from 364 m to 26 m
Countries
3
The journey
From source to mouth
254 km of river and 44 stops on the way: 23 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmJizera Mountainsat 364 m
- 0 kmJablonec nad Nisou46,209 people
- 3 kmLiberec108,090 people
- 11 kmMachnín Viaduct
- 12 kmRailway bridge near Hamrštejn
- 12 kmtransporter bridge near Hamrštejn
- 15 kmBridge Chrastava - Andělská Hora
- 16 kmChrastava6,315 people
- 26 kmRoad bridge over the Lusatian Neisse in Chotyně
- 26 kmJeřicetributary
- 26 kmChotyně1,077 people
- 29 kmHrádek nad Nisou8,001 people
- 37 kmZittau24,958 people
- 37 kmRailway viaduct Zittau–Porajów
- 45 kmGießmannsdorfer Wehr
- 46 kmHirschfelde3,994 people
- 48 kmtwo bridges near Rosenthal
- 63 kmNiedów1.4 km²
- 63 kmSmědá Rivertributary
- 76 kmNeisse viaduct in Görlitz
- 77 kmPope John Paul II bridge
- 78 kmZgorzelec29,966 people
- 79 kmGörlitz55,065 people
- 79 kmAltstadtbrücke
- 89 kmNeißeaue1,608 people
- 92 kmPieńsk5,813 people
- 98 kmZentendorfer Neisseviadukt
- 106 kmRothenburg5,841 people
- 124 kmKlein Priebus123 people
- 149 kmKrauschwitz3,998 people
- 151 kmDoppelbrücke
- 152 kmBad Muskau3,508 people
- 153 kmEnglische Brücke
- 170 kmLusatian Neisse Bridge (Forst/Olszyna)
- 184 kmSeufzersteg
- 184 kmForst22,843 people
- 184 kmForst (Lausitz)16,933 people
- 185 kmZasieki236 people
- 220 kmGubin16,629 people
- 221 kmLubszatributary
- 221 kmTheatre Island
- 221 kmGuben21,608 people
- 238 kmBorak0.6 km²
- 248 kmNeuzelle4,539 people
- 253 kmEisenhüttenstadt32,052 people
- 254 kmOderat 26 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Central Europe
At the mouth it carries 30 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 83 seconds. It drops from 364 m to 26 m, 1.3 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 4,297 km², about the size of CV. 8.2 million people live in it. Highest water: from April to May; lowest: February. Its dams hold back little of its water (8.3% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- LiberecLargest city on its banks · 108,090 people
- Václav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 93 km from the cityCar hire at PRG airport (Prague)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water13 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- Kayak and canoe2 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Lusatian Nysa, month by month
Highest water: from April to May
Lowest water: February. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 190 m³/s in the lowest month to 550 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
Lusatian Nysa: the basin in numbers
51,033 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 8.2millionpeople live in the basin
- 162/km²people per km²
- 240maverage altitude of the basin
- 614mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 8.0°Caverage air temperature
- 15%protected areas
- 0.6%covered by lakes
- 0.8km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 31% Forest
- 44% Cropland
- 11% Pasture
- 8% 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
Lusatian Nysa: what you find on the way
- 185WeirsSohlstufe, Sohlrampe - próg Zittau, Sohlrampe - próg and 182 more
- 6Locks
- 3WaterfallsPlattenwasserfall -, Eichseewasserfall - Wodospad przy Jeziorze Dębów
- 2Canoe put-ins
- 4Boat ramps
- 6MarinasKS Turów sekcja żeglarska, Marina Görlitz - Hafen Tauchritz, Neuer Hafen (ehem. GBI-Hafen) and 3 more
- 3River beachesBlaue Lagune, Nordoststrand
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.2 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Lusatian Nysa 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.
2lakes on its wayLakeyas
49mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (2)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Niedówkm 521.4km²
- Borakkm 2000.6km²
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Mountains at the source (49)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Jizera12 km away · prominence 238 m1,122m
- Smědavská hora14 km away1,084m
- Černá hora11 km away · prominence 111 m1,084m
- Bukovec13 km away1,005m
- Holubník13 km away1,071m
- Sněžné věžičky12 km away1,066m
- Zámky11 km away1,005m
- Pytlácké kameny15 km away975m
41 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
Lusatian Nysa in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
OderPoland854 km480 m³/sTributaries (16)
Also: Smědá River, Mandau, Malxe, Lubsza, Oleška, Pließnitz, Wittgendorfer Wasser, Jeřice, Černá Nisa, Kemmlitzbach, Bílá Nisa, Harcovský potok, Czerwona Woda, Václavický potok, Ullersdorfer Bach, Luční potok
Nearby
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Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q5602) · 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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