River
Savinja
102 km from source to mouth · Slovenia.
SloveniaFlows into Sava1st longest in Slovenia
In numbers
Length
102km
Average flow
29m³/s
Basin
1,848km²
Drop
367m
from 570 m to 203 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
102 km of river and 9 stops on the way: 8 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 570 m
- 18 kmLjubno ob Savinji1,104 people
- 35 kmMozirje2,052 people
- 48 kmPolzela2,380 people
- 55 kmPrebold1,709 people
- 56 kmŠempeter v Savinjski Dolini2,021 people
- 62 kmŽalec4,943 people
- 72 kmCelje37,122 people
- 84 kmLaško3,456 people
- 102 kmGračnicatributary
- 102 kmSavaat 203 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Slovenia
At the mouth it carries 29 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 85 seconds. It drops from 570 m to 203 m, 3.6 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 1,848 km², about the size of GP. 206,000 people live in it. Highest water: from October to December. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- CeljeLargest city on its banks · 37,122 people
- Maribor Edvard Rusjan Airport (MBX)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 43 km from the cityCar hire at LJU airport (Zgornji Brnik)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water3 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- Kayak and canoe1 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Savinja, month by month
Highest water: from October to December
Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 16 m³/s in the lowest month to 54 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
Savinja: the basin in numbers
1,845 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 206,000people live in the basin
- 113/km²people per km²
- 614maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,149mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 7.8°Caverage air temperature
- 29%protected areas
- 0.2%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 84% Forest
- 7% Cropland
- 23% Pasture
- 6% 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
Savinja: what you find on the way
- 32Weirs
- 1Canoe put-ins
- 3Boat ramps
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.4 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Savinja 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.
63mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (63)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Grintovec14 km away · prominence 1,706 m2,558m
- Peca12 km away · prominence 882 m2,126m
- Skuta12 km away2,532m
- Planjava8.7 km away · prominence 530 m2,394m
- Long Ridge13 km away2,473m
- Ojstrica6.8 km away2,350m
- Koroška Rinka12 km away2,433m
- Carniola Mount Rinka12 km away2,453m
55 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
Savinja in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Sava
Serbia945 km1,700 m³/sTributaries (4)
Also: Dreta, Bolska, Ložnica, Gračnica
Romania
Croatia
Germany
Moldova
AustriaNearby
Rivers nearby
ItalyWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q388770) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed along the river network from the point 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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