River
Regnitz
59 km from source to mouth · Germany.
GermanyFlows into Main
In numbers
Length
59km
Average flow
51m³/s
Basin
7,500km²
Drop
55m
from 280 m to 225 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
59 km of river and 24 stops on the way: 19 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 280 m
- 0 kmFürth131,344 people
- 2 kmPegnitztributary
- 11 kmErlangen116,450 people
- 12 kmSchwabachtributary
- 14 kmBubenreuth4,516 people
- 15 kmMöhrendorf4,349 people
- 18 kmBaiersdorf7,071 people
- 20 kmHausen3,625 people
- 23 kmForchheim30,442 people
- 27 kmEggolsheim6,313 people
- 28 kmWiesenttributary
- 30 kmAischtributary
- 31 kmButtenheim3,242 people
- 33 kmHirschaid11,508 people
- 34 kmReiche Ebrachtributary
- 36 kmStrullendorf7,926 people
- 36 kmPettstadt1,886 people
- 42 kmBamberg77,218 people
- 46 kmHallstadt8,485 people
- 47 kmBischberg5,819 people
- 50 kmViereth-Trunstadt3,684 people
- 57 kmStettfeld1,302 people
- 59 kmEltmann5,614 people
- 59 kmEbelsbach3,946 people
- 59 kmMainat 225 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Germany
At the mouth it carries 51 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 49 seconds. It drops from 280 m to 225 m, 0.9 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 7,500 km², about the size of PR. 2.5 million people live in it. Highest water: from February to April and December. Its dams hold back little of its water (5.7% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- FürthLargest city on its banks · 131,344 people
- Nuremberg Airport (NUE)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 7 km from the cityCar hire at NUE airport (Nuremberg)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water36 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- Kayak and canoe10 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Regnitz, month by month
Highest water: from February to April and December
Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 37 m³/s in the lowest month to 200 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
Regnitz: the basin in numbers
11,992 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 2.5millionpeople live in the basin
- 206/km²people per km²
- 410maverage altitude of the basin
- 683mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 8.0°Caverage air temperature
- 39%protected areas
- 0.2%covered by lakes
- 0.2km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 37% Forest
- 28% Cropland
- 12% Pasture
- 10% 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
Regnitz: what you find on the way
- 96WeirsZenn, Schleifmühle, Staustufe Forchheim and 93 more
- 16LocksSchleuse Kriegenbrunn, Schleuse Erlangen, Schleuse Hausen and 13 more
- 2WaterfallsOchsenklavier
- 7RapidsFörstermühle and 6 more
- 3Canoe put-insPettstatt
- 14Boat rampsKanuanlegestelle Staffelbach, Eltmann and 12 more
- 6Ferry piersFähranleger Mühlwörth, Don Bosco Fähre, Anlegestelle Hotelschiffe and 3 more
- 14MarinasSportbootclub Herzogenaurach, Sportboothafen Süß, Stadthafen Forchheim and 11 more
- 1River beachesFKK-Strand
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.8 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Regnitz 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.
44mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (44)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Schmausenbuck12 km away390m
- Mistelberg13 km away418m
- Dillenberg14 km away386m
- Buchenbühl11 km away · prominence 31 m400m
- Föhrenbuck12 km away369m
- Haidberg13 km away394m
- Kahlberg11 km away392m
- Hirschberg13 km away380m
36 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
Regnitz in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
MainGermany524 km200 m³/sTributaries (11)
Also: Rednitz, Aisch, Wiesent, Deichselbach, Aurach, Zeegenbach, Gründlach, Aurach, Reiche Ebrach, Schwabach
The Netherlands
Switzerland
FranceNearby
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Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q643525) · 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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