River
Nysa Kłodzka
195 km from source to mouth · Poland.
PolandFlows into Oder
In numbers
Length
195km
Average flow
45m³/s
Basin
4,565km²
Drop
261m
from 399 m to 138 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
195 km of river and 19 stops on the way: 8 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmŚnieżnik Mountainsat 399 m
- 18 kmBystrzyca Kłodzka10,375 people
- 33 kmRaczynatributary
- 33 kmBiała Lądeckatributary
- 39 kmKłodzko25,717 people
- 39 kmIron Bridge in Kłodzko
- 44 kmStěnavatributary
- 72 kmKamieniec Ząbkowicki4,200 people
- 81 kmZbiornik Topola1.4 km²
- 88 kmPaczków8,081 people
- 102 kmOtmuchów Lake13 km²
- 104 kmOtmuchów5,181 people
- 117 kmNyskie Lake14 km²
- 117 kmVidnávkatributary
- 117 kmBiała Głuchołaskatributary
- 120 kmNysa47,283 people
- 178 kmLewin Brzeski6,000 people
- 178 kmŚcinawa Niemodlińskatributary
- 184 kmSkorogoszcz1,087 people
- 184 kmBridge in Skorogoszcz
- 195 kmOderat 138 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 45 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 56 seconds. It drops from 399 m to 138 m, 1.3 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 4,565 km², about the size of TT. 4.0 million people live in it. Highest water: May and August; lowest: from January to February. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (14% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- NysaLargest city on its banks · 47,283 people
- Copernicus Wrocław Airport (WRO)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 77 km from the cityCar hire at WRO airport (Wrocław)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water5 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Nysa Kłodzka, month by month
Highest water: May and August
Lowest water: from January to February. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 87 m³/s in the lowest month to 250 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.
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The basin
Nysa Kłodzka: the basin in numbers
18,046 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 4.0millionpeople live in the basin
- 220/km²people per km²
- 346maverage altitude of the basin
- 679mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 7.7°Caverage air temperature
- 21%protected areas
- 0.7%covered by lakes
- 0.6km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 36% Forest
- 43% Cropland
- 10% Pasture
- 13% 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
Nysa Kłodzka: what you find on the way
- 49Weirsjaz nr 2 im. Bogusława Podborączyńskiego and 48 more
- 5Locks
- 1Waterfalls
- 3Boat ramps
- 2MarinasRaftingBardo, Przystań żeglarska
- 1River beachesplaża Kozielno
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.0 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Nysa Kłodzka 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.
3lakes on its wayLakeyas
64mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (3)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Zbiornik Topolakm 661.4km²
- Otmuchów Lakekm 8213km²
- Nyskie Lakekm 9514km²
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Mountains at the source (64)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Králický Sněžník8.2 km away · prominence 665 m1,423m
- Malý Sněžník5.4 km away · prominence 100 m1,327m
- Sušina6.6 km away · prominence 108 m1,321m
- Podbělka5.2 km away1,308m
- Goworek4.9 km away1,320m
- Černá kupa7.1 km away1,295m
- Souš5.7 km away1,225m
- Uhlisko5.7 km away1,241m
56 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
Nysa Kłodzka in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
OderPoland854 km480 m³/sTributaries (9)
Also: Stěnava, Biała Głuchołaska, Vidnávka, Biała Lądecka, Bystrzyca Dusznicka, Bystrzyca Łomnicka, Ścinawa Niemodlińska, Raczyna, Tarnawka
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Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1455991) · 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, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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