River
Ondava
146 km from source to mouth · Slovakia.
SlovakiaFlows into Bodrog5th longest in Slovakia
In numbers
Length
146km
Average flow
21m³/s
Basin
3,400km²
Drop
167m
from 262 m to 95 m
Country
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The journey
From source to mouth
146 km of river and 17 stops on the way: 15 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 262 m
- 0 kmZborov3,599 people
- 8 kmBardejov30,267 people
- 21 kmVyšná Jedľová184 people
- 25 kmSvidník9,500 people
- 27 kmMestisko435 people
- 27 kmKurima1,129 people
- 42 kmStropkov9,660 people
- 45 kmBreznica852 people
- 46 kmGiraltovce3,994 people
- 57 kmHanušovce nad Topľou3,782 people
- 85 kmVranov nad Topľou20,595 people
- 91 kmNižný Hrabovec1,547 people
- 95 kmDlhé Klčovo1,342 people
- 104 kmRakovec nad Ondavou997 people
- 112 kmTrhovište2,133 people
- 117 kmTopľatributary
- 132 kmTrnávkatributary
- 146 kmBodrogat 95 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Slovakia
At the mouth it carries 21 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 119 seconds. It drops from 262 m to 95 m, 1.1 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 3,400 km², about the size of CV. 286,000 people live in it. Highest water: March; lowest: from December to February and October. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (26% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- BardejovLargest city on its banks · 30,267 people
- Košice International Airport (KSC)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 70 km from the cityCar hire at KSC airport (Košice)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Ondava, month by month
Highest water: March
Lowest water: from December to February and October. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 11 m³/s in the lowest month to 53 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
Ondava: the basin in numbers
3,523 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 286,000people live in the basin
- 81/km²people per km²
- 330maverage altitude of the basin
- 717mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 7.7°Caverage air temperature
- 3%protected areas
- 0.3%covered by lakes
- 0.2km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 56% Forest
- 26% Cropland
- 27% Pasture
- 3% 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
Ondava: what you find on the way
- 3Weirs
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.5 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Ondava 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.
29mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (29)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Busov14 km away1,002m
- Stebnícka Magura11 km away900m
- Javorina5.8 km away881m
- Kozie Żebro10 km away847m
- Smilniansky vrch3.0 km away749m
- Wysota9.8 km away784m
- Obicz - Beskid Niski 788 mnpm7.3 km away780m
- Czeremcha9.3 km away670m
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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
Ondava in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Bodrog
Hungary67 km120 m³/sTributaries (11)
Also: Topľa, Ladomirka, Trnávka, Chotčianka, Ondavka, Jedľovský potok, Mirošovec, Mostovka, Olšavka, Vojtovec, Brusnička
Romania
Serbia
Croatia
Germany
Moldova
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PolandWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q644669) · 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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