River
Nahe
125 km from source to mouth · Germany.
GermanyFlows into Rhine
In numbers
Length
125km
Average flow
32m³/s
Basin
4,067km²
Drop
269m
from 349 m to 80 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
125 km of river and 38 stops on the way: 26 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmNohfeldenat 349 m
- 0 kmNohfelden10,687 people
- 8 kmHoppstädten-Weiersbach2,749 people
- 27 kmIdar-Oberstein29,158 people
- 32 kmNahebrücke Gefallener Felsen
- 35 kmIdarbachtributary
- 43 kmFischbachtributary
- 49 kmKirn8,762 people
- 54 kmHochstetten-Dhaun1,648 people
- 57 kmSimmertal2,009 people
- 61 kmMerxheim1,514 people
- 64 kmSimmerbachtributary
- 64 kmMonzingen1,823 people
- 68 kmMeddersheim1,368 people
- 72 kmBad Sobernheim6,479 people
- 75 kmStaudernheim1,601 people
- 78 kmOdernheim1,776 people
- 78 kmGlantributary
- 82 kmWaldböckelheim2,333 people
- 92 kmHüffelsheim1,305 people
- 94 kmNorheim1,438 people
- 97 kmAlsenztributary
- 97 kmBad Münster am Stein-Ebernburg3,940 people
- 103 kmOld Nahe Bridge
- 103 kmBad Kreuznach43,213 people
- 103 kmWilhelmsbrücke
- 109 kmBretzenheim2,455 people
- 110 kmEllerbachtributary
- 110 kmAppelbachtributary
- 113 kmGensingen3,355 people
- 114 kmLangenlonsheim3,673 people
- 115 kmGrolsheim1,080 people
- 117 kmWiesbachtributary
- 120 kmMünster-Sarmsheim2,952 people
- 121 kmBüdesheim7,645 people
- 123 kmDrususbrücke
- 123 kmWeiler2,712 people
- 123 kmBingen am Rhein26,339 people
- 125 kmAulhausen1,208 people
- 125 kmRhineat 80 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
Tributary of Rhine river
At the mouth it carries 32 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 79 seconds. It drops from 349 m to 80 m, 2.2 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 4,067 km², about the size of CV. 651,000 people live in it. Highest water: from December to January. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- Bad KreuznachLargest city on its banks · 43,213 people
- Frankfurt-Hahn Airport (HHN)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 45 km from the cityCar hire at HHN airport (Frankfurt am Main)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water10 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- Kayak and canoe4 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- From June to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Nahe, month by month
Highest water: from December to January
Best months to visit: from June to September.
From about 11 m³/s in the lowest month to 57 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
Nahe: the basin in numbers
4,060 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 651,000people live in the basin
- 160/km²people per km²
- 350maverage altitude of the basin
- 706mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 8.3°Caverage air temperature
- 32%protected areas
What covers the basin
- 30% Forest
- 30% Cropland
- 9% Pasture
- 9% 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
Nahe: what you find on the way
- 40WeirsWehr der Schleifmühle Bruchwiesen, Wehr Nohen, Nahemühle and 37 more
- 1Locks
- 2WaterfallsWasserfall Fischbach
- 4Canoe put-ins
- 2Boat ramps
- 5Ferry piersFähre Bingen - Rüdesheim, Personenfähre Bingen-Rüdesheim, Autofähre Bingen - Rüdesheim and 2 more
- 1MarinasMotor-Yacht-Club-Bingen
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.6 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Nahe 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.
112mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (112)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Dollberg9.9 km away695m
- Friedrichskopf13 km away707m
- Schaumberg5.9 km away569m
- Peterberg3.9 km away584m
- Kahlen-Berg8.5 km away564m
- Bosenberg14 km away485m
- Rothen-Berg8.2 km away521m
- Roths-Berg14 km away521m
104 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
Nahe in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Rhine
The Netherlands1,233 km2,200 m³/sTributaries (14)
Also: Glan, Alsenz, Appelbach, Wiesbach, Idarbach, Ellerbach, Traun, Bos, Fischbach, Söterbach, Hahnenbach, Simmerbach, Schwollbach (Nahe), Guldenbach
Switzerland
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Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q168696) · 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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