River
River Avon
154 km from source to mouth · United Kingdom.
United KingdomFlows into River Severn10th longest in United Kingdom
In numbers
Length
154km
Average flow
31m³/s
Basin
2,670km²
Drop
80m
from 90 m to 10 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
154 km of river and 34 stops on the way: 17 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 90 m
- 13 kmRugby78,117 people
- 17 kmLong Lawford3,007 people
- 26 kmBrandon8,440 people
- 26 kmWolston2,564 people
- 27 kmBrandon Viaduct
- 30 kmRyton on Dunsmore1,813 people
- 41 kmStare Bridge
- 44 kmC19 Iron Bridge And Cascade 320 Metres South-West Of Abbey
- 50 kmLeek Wootton1,017 people
- 53 kmPortobello Bridge
- 54 kmAvon Aqueduct
- 54 kmRiver Sowetributary
- 56 kmWarwick32,719 people
- 57 kmRiver Leamtributary
- 68 kmWellesbourne Mountford6,007 people
- 75 kmClopton Bridge
- 76 kmStratford-upon-Avon30,495 people
- 93 kmBidford Bridge
- 93 kmBidford-on-Avon5,047 people
- 100 kmSouth Littleton1,564 people
- 101 kmHarvington1,680 people
- 104 kmRiver Arrowtributary
- 107 kmEvesham27,684 people
- 118 kmJubilee Bridge
- 119 kmRiver Isbournetributary
- 120 kmpipeline bridge over the Avon (Severn, Tewkesbury) in Fladbury
- 127 kmPershore7,626 people
- 128 kmPershore Bridge
- 138 kmEckington Bridge
- 142 kmEckington1,217 people
- 142 kmStrensham Lock
- 146 kmBredon1,936 people
- 153 kmRailway Viaduct Tewkesbury
- 154 kmTewkesbury20,360 people
- 154 kmRiver Severnat 10 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Warwickshire, UK
At the mouth it carries 31 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 81 seconds. It drops from 90 m to 10 m, 0.5 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 2,670 km², about the size of LU. 915,000 people live in it. Highest water: from December to January. Its dams hold back little of its water (2.3% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- RugbyLargest city on its banks · 78,117 people
- Birmingham Airport (BHX)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 34 km from the cityCar hire at BHX airport (Birmingham, West Midlands)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water32 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From June to SeptemberThe best months to visit
River Avon, month by month
Highest water: from December to January
Best months to visit: from June to September.
From about 12 m³/s in the lowest month to 49 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
River Avon: the basin in numbers
2,724 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 915,000people live in the basin
- 335/km²people per km²
- 96maverage altitude of the basin
- 641mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 9.4°Caverage air temperature
- 11%protected areas
- 0.1%covered by lakes
- 0.0km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 62% Cropland
- 17% Pasture
- 12% 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
River Avon: what you find on the way
- 63WeirsRock Mill Weir, Milverton Weir, Leamington Weir and 60 more
- 75LocksGrand Union Canal, Stratford-upon-Avon Canal, River Avon and 72 more
- 11Boat rampsThe Elephant Wash and 10 more
- 5Ferry piersAvon Boating and 4 more
- 15MarinasLime Farm Marina, Brinklow Marina, Saltisford Canal Centre and 12 more
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.5 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
River Avon 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.
1waterfall on the riverCascadyas
Waterfalls (1)
On the river, by Cascadyas
- C19 Iron Bridge And Cascade 320 Metres South-West Of Abbeykm 35
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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
River Avon in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
River SevernUnited Kingdom354 km110 m³/sTributaries (9)
Also: River Leam, River Sowe, River Arrow, River Swift, River Dene, River Isbourne, River Stour, River Swilgate
Nearby
Rivers nearby
United Kingdom215 km100 m³/s54 km awayRiver ThamesUnited Kingdom334 km66 m³/s181 km awayRiver DerwentUnited Kingdom80 km29 m³/s113 km awayRiver DeeUnited Kingdom110 km30 m³/s152 km awayRiver AvonUnited Kingdom96 km56 m³/s145 km awayRiver LeaUnited Kingdom68 km38 m³/s164 km awayRiver TrentUnited Kingdom298 km95 m³/s211 km awayRiver ExeUnited Kingdom88 km16 m³/s172 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q19709) · 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 | Cascadyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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