River
Motława
65 km from source to mouth · Poland.
PolandFlows into Martwa Wisła
In numbers
Length
65km
Average flow
12m³/s
Basin
1,511km²
Drop
4m
from 0 m to -4 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
65 km of river and 14 stops on the way: 10 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmJezioro Rokickieat 0 m
- 50 kmRailway bridge over the Motława River in Gdańsk
- 51 kmOrunia-Św. Wojciech-Lipce14,136 people
- 51 kmOlszynka3,016 people
- 53 kmMost Krowi in Gdańsk
- 53 kmZielony Most in Gdańsk
- 53 kmGdańsk487,371 people
- 54 kmŚrodmieście23,364 people
- 54 kmŚródmieście25,243 people
- 54 kmMost Kamieniarski
- 55 kmPrzeróbka3,585 people
- 57 kmAniołki4,223 people
- 59 kmMłyniska2,278 people
- 60 kmLetnica2,622 people
- 64 kmNowy Port8,465 people
- 65 kmMartwa Wisłaat -4 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Poland
At the mouth it carries 12 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 214 seconds. Its basin covers 1,511 km², about the size of GP. 420,000 people live in it. Highest water: March; lowest: from December to February. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- GdańskLargest city on its banks · 487,371 people
- Gdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport (GDN)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 12 km from the cityCar hire at GDN airport (Gdańsk)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water37 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- Kayak and canoe2 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- From June to AugustThe best months to visit
Motława, month by month
Highest water: March
Lowest water: from December to February. Best months to visit: from June to August.
From about 6.8 m³/s in the lowest month to 22 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
Motława: the basin in numbers
1,208 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 420,000people live in the basin
- 351/km²people per km²
- 98maverage altitude of the basin
- 564mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 6.3°Caverage air temperature
- 10%protected areas
- 0.8%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 11% Forest
- 58% Cropland
- 12% Pasture
- 19% 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
Motława: what you find on the way
- 2Weirs
- 4Locks
- 2Canoe put-insSuchy Dąb, Mokry Dwór
- 14Boat rampsAII, AI, B3 and 11 more
- 14Ferry piersŻabi Kruk, Zielona Brama, Targ Rybny and 11 more
- 7MarinasKlub Wodny "Żabi Kruk", Przystań Żabi Kruk, Marina Granaria and 4 more
- 2River beaches100cznia Plaża, Plaża dla psów
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.2 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Motława 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.
2islands off the mouthIslandyas
Islands off the mouth (2)
Within 30 km of the mouth, by Islandyas
- Port Island4.2 km away26km²
- Kępa Bazarowa6.8 km away0.3km²
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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
Motława in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (3)
Also: Radunia, Kłodawa, Czarna Łacha
Nearby
Rivers nearby
LithuaniaWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1950176) · 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 | Islandyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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