River
Samara
594 km from source to mouth · Russia.
RussiaFlows into Volga
In numbers
Length
594km
Average flow
50m³/s
Basin
46,500km²
Drop
182m
from 205 m to 23 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
594 km of river and 31 stops on the way: 11 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmObshchy Syrtat 205 m
- 37 kmPerevolotskiy9,667 people
- 95 kmNovosergiyevka13,188 people
- 99 kmKuvaytributary
- 154 kmBolshoy Urantributary
- 158 kmSorochinskoe Reservoir13 km²
- 162 kmUranchiktributary
- 163 kmSorochinsk30,731 people
- 192 kmMaly Urantributary
- 196 kmSorochkatributary
- 206 kmSorokatributary
- 207 kmTotskoye7,161 people
- 239 kmPogromkatributary
- 248 kmKrasnogvardeyets3,836 people
- 266 kmBuzuluktributary
- 266 kmToktributary
- 292 kmVinnayatributary
- 318 kmBorovkatributary
- 350 kmBorskoye9,119 people
- 386 kmBogatoye6,391 people
- 418 kmSyezzhayatributary
- 437 kmUtevka4,556 people
- 457 kmDomashkatributary
- 484 kmSpiridonovka4,387 people
- 509 kmBolshoy Kineltributary
- 513 kmAlekseyevka10,737 people
- 528 kmTrostyamoye Lake1.6 km²
- 536 kmKirov vehicle bridge
- 551 kmOzero Gatnoye1.3 km²
- 553 kmSamara1,154,223 people
- 555 kmFrunzensky Bridge
- 559 kmOzero Peschanoye (lanaw sa Rusya, Samarskaya Oblast', lat 53,20, long 50,04)0.6 km²
- 594 kmVolgaat 23 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Russia, tributary of the Volga
At the mouth it carries 50 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 50 seconds. It drops from 205 m to 23 m, 0.3 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 46,500 km², about the size of BT. 1.3 million people live in it. Highest water, with the snowmelt: April; lowest: from December to March. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- SamaraLargest city on its banks · 1,154,223 people
- Kurumoch International Airport (KUF)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 36 km from the city
- On the water12 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Samara, month by month
Highest water: April
Lowest water: from December to March. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from December to March. Melting snow makes up much of its water. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 17 m³/s in the lowest month to 1,000 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
Samara: the basin in numbers
46,454 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 1.3millionpeople live in the basin
- 30/km²people per km²
- 155maverage altitude of the basin
- 487mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 4.2°Caverage air temperature
- 6%protected areas
- 0.2%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 6% Forest
- 51% Cropland
- 30% Pasture
- 1% 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
Samara: what you find on the way
- 3Weirs
- 1Locks
- 1Boat ramps
- 7Ferry piers
- 2Marinas
- 4River beaches
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.2 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Samara 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.
4lakes on its wayLakeyas
Lakes and reservoirs (4)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Sorochinskoe Reservoirkm 13213km²
- Trostyamoye Lakekm 4441.6km²
- Ozero Gatnoyekm 4641.3km²
- Ozero Peschanoye (lanaw sa Rusya, Samarskaya Oblast', lat 53,20, long 50,04)km 4700.6km²
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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
Samara in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
VolgaRussia3,530 km8,100 m³/sTributaries (31)
Also: Bolshoy Kinel, Tok, Buzuluk, Borovka, Maly Uran, Bolshoy Uran, Kuvay, Syezzhaya, Vinnaya, Gryaznushka, Soroka, Sorochka, Uranchik, Bezymyanka, Vetlyanka, Vorobyovka, Koltubanka, Lebyazhka, Manyazhka, Soldatka, Taneevka, Makhovka, Domashka, Vyazovka
Nearby
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Kazakhstan264 km7.7 m³/s240 km awayBelayaRussia1,430 km950 m³/s380 km awaySakmaraRussia798 km140 m³/s371 km awaySuraRussia841 km260 m³/s419 km awayUfaRussia918 km390 m³/s424 km awayVetlugaRussia889 km260 m³/s435 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q649527) · 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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