River
Nida
151 km from source to mouth · Poland.
PolandFlows into Vistula
In numbers
Length
151km
Average flow
19m³/s
Basin
3,865km²
Drop
94m
from 260 m to 166 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
151 km of river and 9 stops on the way: 7 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmMoskorzewat 260 m
- 4 kmWola Jachowa1,300 people
- 11 kmDaleszyce2,932 people
- 33 kmMorawica1,576 people
- 37 kmBrzeziny2,015 people
- 58 kmCzarna Nidatributary
- 100 kmPińczów11,806 people
- 104 kmMierzawatributary
- 118 kmZłota1,200 people
- 145 kmNowy Korczyn1,032 people
- 151 kmVistulaat 166 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 19 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 129 seconds. It drops from 260 m to 166 m, 0.6 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 3,865 km², about the size of CV. 518,000 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
- PińczówLargest city on its banks · 11,806 people
- Kraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 72 km from the cityCar hire at KRK airport (Balice)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water11 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Nida, month by month
Highest water: March
Lowest water: from December to February. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): January. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 11 m³/s in the lowest month to 40 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
Nida: the basin in numbers
3,853 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 518,000people live in the basin
- 134/km²people per km²
- 259maverage altitude of the basin
- 643mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 7.4°Caverage air temperature
- 35%protected areas
- 0.2%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 17% Forest
- 54% Cropland
- 14% 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
Nida: what you find on the way
- 6Weirs
- 3Boat ramps
- 5MarinasPrzystań kajakowa Wiślica, Przystań kajakowa and 3 more
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.6 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Nida 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.
12mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (12)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Łysa Góra9.6 km away594m
- Lysica - 612 m. n. p. m.7.8 km away608m
- Radostowa11 km away451m
- Szczygiełkowa - Przełęcz Św. Mikołaja 535m.6.8 km away541m
- Góra Miejska12 km away426m
- Łysica8.4 km away
- Otrocz14 km away263m
- Góra Wymyślona11 km away
4 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
Nida in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
VistulaPoland1,047 km1,100 m³/sTributaries (3)
Also: Czarna Nida, Mierzawa, Maskalis
Nearby
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Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1521184) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed along the river network from the point 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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