River
Mahi River
550 km from source to mouth · India.
IndiaFlows into Arabian Sea
In numbers
Length
550km
Average flow
390m³/s
Basin
34,842km²
Drop
495m
from 495 m to 0 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
550 km of river and 4 stops on the way: 4 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 495 m
- 1 kmSardārpur7,293 people
- 2 kmRājgarh17,113 people
- 301 kmGaliākot6,906 people
- 502 kmNandesari INA8,290 people
- 550 kmArabian Seaat 0 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 391 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 6.4 seconds. It drops from 495 m to 0 m, 0.9 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 34,842 km², about the size of MD. 13.1 million people live in it. Highest water: September; lowest: from February to May. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (22% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- RājgarhLargest city on its banks · 17,113 people
- Devi Ahilya Bai Holkar International Airport (IDR)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 88 km from the cityCar hire at UDR airport (Udaipur)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From November to FebruaryThe best months to visit
Mahi River, month by month
Highest water: September
Lowest water: from February to May. Best months to visit: from November to February.
From about 10 m³/s in the lowest month to 1,700 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
Mahi River: the basin in numbers
34,074 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 13.1millionpeople live in the basin
- 386/km²people per km²
- 299maverage altitude of the basin
- 820mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 26.2°Caverage air temperature
- 4%protected areas
- 0.5%covered by lakes
- 2.8km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 16% Forest
- 50% Cropland
- 5% 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
Mahi River: what you find on the way
- 3Weirs
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.1 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
Mahi River in pictures
Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q542539) · 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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