River
Meurthe
161 km from source to mouth · France.
FranceFlows into Moselle
In numbers
Length
161km
Average flow
41m³/s
Basin
3,085km²
Drop
314m
from 502 m to 188 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
161 km of river and 24 stops on the way: 18 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmVosges Mountainsat 502 m
- 12 kmBruyères3,423 people
- 42 kmChantraine3,140 people
- 43 kmÉpinal39,518 people
- 45 kmGolbey8,623 people
- 52 kmThaon-les-Vosges8,009 people
- 72 kmCharmes4,825 people
- 98 kmSânontributary
- 107 kmpont du Millénaire
- 107 kmLaneuveville-devant-Nancy6,630 people
- 107 kmLudres6,974 people
- 111 kmNeuves-Maisons6,971 people
- 113 kmChaligny3,002 people
- 133 kmToul17,680 people
- 151 kmLiverdun6,500 people
- 157 kmPont Vayringe
- 157 kmbarrage de Nancy
- 157 kmMalzéville bridge
- 157 kmNancy103,671 people
- 157 kmMalzéville7,820 people
- 157 kmFrouard7,119 people
- 157 kmPompey5,341 people
- 158 kmBouxières-aux-Dames4,205 people
- 158 kmAmezuletributary
- 160 kmCustines3,056 people
- 161 kmMoselleat 188 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 41 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 61 seconds. It drops from 502 m to 188 m, 2.0 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 3,085 km², about the size of LU. 805,000 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
- NancyLargest city on its banks · 103,671 people
- Metz-Nancy-Lorraine Airport (ETZ)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 33 km from the cityCar hire at ETZ airport (Goin)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water20 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From June to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Meurthe, month by month
Highest water: from December to February
Best months to visit: from June to September.
From about 37 m³/s in the lowest month to 180 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
Meurthe: the basin in numbers
6,792 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 805,000people live in the basin
- 119/km²people per km²
- 399maverage altitude of the basin
- 860mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 8.8°Caverage air temperature
- 15%protected areas
- 0.2%covered by lakes
- 0.1km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 45% Forest
- 19% Cropland
- 20% Pasture
- 6% 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
Meurthe: what you find on the way
- 34WeirsDeversoir des turbines and 33 more
- 175LocksCanal des Vosges and 174 more
- 7Boat ramps
- 11MarinasPort de Plaisance d'Épinal, Halte fluviale de la cote Olie, Halte Nautique de Thaon les Vosges and 8 more
- 1River beachesCamping beach
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.7 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Meurthe 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.
74mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (74)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Hohneck2.2 km away · prominence 186 m1,363m
- Kastelberg4.1 km away · prominence 70 m1,350m
- Rainkopf5.7 km away1,305m
- Petit Ballon12 km away · prominence 147 m1,272m
- Rothenbachkopf6.7 km away1,315m
- Klintzkopf12 km away1,330m
- Gazon du Faing8.7 km away1,306m
- Le Tanet4.1 km away1,292m
66 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
Meurthe in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Moselle
Germany544 km320 m³/sTributaries (12)
Also: Mortagne, Vezouze, Fave river, Plaine, Rabodeau, Sânon, Amezule, Hure, Petite Meurthe, Roanne, Valdange, Grémillon
The Netherlands
SwitzerlandNearby
Rivers nearby
LuxembourgWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1160441) · 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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