River
Noteć
388 km from source to mouth · Poland.
PolandFlows into Warta7th longest in Poland
In numbers
Length
388km
Average flow
210m³/s
Basin
17,330km²
Drop
83m
from 99 m to 16 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
388 km of river and 28 stops on the way: 13 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 99 m
- 12 kmJezioro Modzerowskie1.8 km²
- 23 kmJezioro Kamienieckie (Pojezierze Kujawskie)0.4 km²
- 26 kmLubotyń0.9 km²
- 38 kmSompolno3,610 people
- 79 kmKruszwica9,494 people
- 79 kmGopło17 km²
- 79 kmTryszczyń0.3 km²
- 83 kmJezioro Szarlejskie0.6 km²
- 97 kmJezioro Piotrkowskie (powiat inowrocławski)0.3 km²
- 99 kmJanikowo9,169 people
- 102 kmJezioro Pakoskie8.5 km²
- 103 kmPakość5,762 people
- 110 kmMielno1.2 km²
- 119 kmBarcin7,682 people
- 124 kmJezioro Kierzkowskie0.7 km²
- 125 kmJezioro Wolickie2.1 km²
- 137 kmŁabiszyn4,454 people
- 159 kmGąsawkatributary
- 177 kmNakło nad Notecią19,565 people
- 187 kmRokitkatributary
- 243 kmGwdatributary
- 243 kmUjście3,869 people
- 270 kmCzarnków11,562 people
- 299 kmWieleń6,067 people
- 312 kmKrzyż Wielkopolski6,300 people
- 314 kmDrawatributary
- 326 kmDrezdenko10,541 people
- 377 kmGorzów Wielkopolski114,567 people
- 388 kmWartaat 16 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 209 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 12 seconds. It drops from 99 m to 16 m, 0.2 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 17,330 km², about the size of SZ. 6.2 million people live in it. Highest water: from March to May; lowest: from January to February. Its dams hold back little of its water (3.1% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- Gorzów WielkopolskiLargest city on its banks · 114,567 people
- Zielona Góra-Babimost Airport (IEG)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 77 km from the cityCar hire at SZZ airport (Szczecin)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water36 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Noteć, month by month
Highest water: from March to May
Lowest water: from January to February. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 130 m³/s in the lowest month to 320 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
Noteć: the basin in numbers
53,449 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 6.2millionpeople live in the basin
- 117/km²people per km²
- 124maverage altitude of the basin
- 558mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 8.1°Caverage air temperature
- 19%protected areas
- 1.1%covered by lakes
- 0.2km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 23% Forest
- 51% Cropland
- 10% Pasture
- 4% 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
Noteć: what you find on the way
- 53WeirsŚluza nr 17 Mikołajewo, Śluza nr 18 Rusko, Śluza nr 19 Wrzeszczyna and 50 more
- 59LocksŚluza Gawrony, Śluza Dębinek, Kanał Bydgoski and 56 more
- 12Boat ramps
- 7Ferry piersZłotowo, Wycieczkowiec Rusałka and 5 more
- 16MarinasKlub Żeglarski LOK „Popiel”, Yacht Klub Polski Inowrocław, Marina Łabiszyn. Wypożyczalnia sprzętu wodnego and 13 more
- 6River beachesDzikus, Plaża Sadłogoszcz, Plaża Smerzyn and 3 more
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.2 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Noteć 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.
11lakes on its wayLakeyas
Lakes and reservoirs (11)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Jezioro Modzerowskiekm 111.8km²
- Lubotyńkm 250.9km²
- Gopłokm 76 · 16 m deep17km²
- Jezioro Szarlejskiekm 800.6km²
- Jezioro Pakoskiekm 998.5km²
- Mielnokm 1071.2km²
- Jezioro Kierzkowskiekm 1200.7km²
- Jezioro Wolickiekm 1212.1km²
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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
Noteć in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
WartaPoland808 km200 m³/sTributaries (10)
Also: Gwda, Gąsawka, Kcyninka, Bolemka, Gulczanka, Rokitka, Łobżonka, Mała Noteć, Miała
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Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q828869) · 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 | Lakeyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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