River
Naab
165 km from source to mouth · Germany.
GermanyFlows into Danube
In numbers
Length
165km
Average flow
430m³/s
Basin
5,400km²
Drop
161m
from 491 m to 330 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
165 km of river and 33 stops on the way: 27 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmHaidenaabat 491 m
- 0 kmSchwarzenbach1,129 people
- 7 kmTirschenreuth9,410 people
- 30 kmBerg7,472 people
- 31 kmWindischeschenbach5,659 people
- 41 kmNeustadt an der Waldnaab6,153 people
- 41 kmStörnstein1,445 people
- 44 kmAltenstadt an der Waldnaab4,707 people
- 47 kmTheisseil1,261 people
- 51 kmWeiden42,550 people
- 54 kmSchirmitz2,120 people
- 56 kmPirk1,960 people
- 63 kmHaidenaabtributary
- 63 kmWaldnaabtributary
- 65 kmLuhe-Wildenau3,505 people
- 73 kmWernberg-Köblitz5,830 people
- 80 kmPfreimd5,565 people
- 86 kmNabburg5,994 people
- 91 kmEisenbahnbrücke Brensdorf
- 93 kmStulln1,683 people
- 96 kmSchwarzenfeld6,398 people
- 98 kmSchwarzachtributary
- 106 kmSchwandorf in Bayern28,235 people
- 120 kmTeublitz7,405 people
- 126 kmBurglengenfeld12,095 people
- 137 kmKallmünz2,895 people
- 141 kmVilstributary
- 143 kmDuggendorf1,605 people
- 146 kmWolfsegg1,506 people
- 150 kmPielenhofen1,315 people
- 156 kmKammerschleuse An der Schleuse 1 in Nittendorf
- 159 kmNittendorf9,226 people
- 163 kmSinzing6,724 people
- 164 kmRegensburg151,517 people
- 165 kmDanubeat 330 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Germany
At the mouth it carries 430 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 5.8 seconds. It drops from 491 m to 330 m, 1.0 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 5,400 km², about the size of TT. 4.4 million people live in it. Highest water: from March to May; lowest: from December to February. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- RegensburgLargest city on its banks · 151,517 people
- Munich Airport (MUC)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 77 km from the cityCar hire at MUC airport (Munich)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water19 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- Kayak and canoe5 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- From June to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Naab, month by month
Highest water: from March to May
Lowest water: from December to February. Best months to visit: from June to September.
From about 260 m³/s in the lowest month to 790 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
Naab: the basin in numbers
32,355 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 4.4millionpeople live in the basin
- 137/km²people per km²
- 627maverage altitude of the basin
- 849mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 7.5°Caverage air temperature
- 25%protected areas
- 0.4%covered by lakes
- 0.2km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 42% Forest
- 29% Cropland
- 21% 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
Naab: what you find on the way
- 70WeirsOberes Wehr, Neumühlewehr, Stadtbad Wehr and 67 more
- 1Locks
- 1RapidsButterfass
- 4Canoe put-insWaldnaab and 3 more
- 12Boat rampsBootsrampe Kneiting and 11 more
- 2Ferry piersFähre Prüfening
- 1Marinas1. Motorboot- und Wasserskiclub e.V. Regensburg
- 4River beachesStrandbad Klausensee, Flussbad, Flussbad Etterzhausen and 1 more
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.1 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Naab 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.
60mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (60)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Basaltkegel Parkstein15 km away595m
- Geissleite11 km away636m
- Rotbühl14 km away673m
- Kulm14 km away626m
- Buchberg (Naabgebirge)12 km away667m
- Monte Kaolino14 km away440m
- Schwammbühl15 km away641m
- Rödlasberg13 km away579m
52 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
Naab in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Danube
Romania2,850 km5,400 m³/sTributaries (7)
Also: Waldnaab, Vils, Pfreimd, Luhe, Haidenaab, Schwarzach, Böhmische Schwarzach
Serbia
Croatia
Moldova
AustriaNearby
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Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q702507) · 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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