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Sázava

226 km from source to mouth · Czechia.

CzechiaCzechiaFlows into Vltava3rd longest in Czechia

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The river and every tributary in its basin, drawn from RiverATLAS (CC BY 4.0).

In numbers

Length

226km

Average flow

25m³/s

Basin

4,350km²

Drop

270m

from 474 m to 204 m

Country

1

The journey

From source to mouth

226 km of river and 68 stops on the way: 12 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.

474 m204 m
Velké Dářkoat 474 m0 km
Losenický potoktributary26 km
Žabinectributary46 km
Úsobský potoktributary58 km
Perlový potoktributary79 km
Pstružný potoktributary94 km
Švihov Reservoir11 km²110 km
Tichonický vodopád15 m129 km
Drahňovické kaskády141 km
Samechovský vodopád6 m160 km
Lensedelské vodopády2 m174 km
Novoveský vodopád2 m209 km
Vltavaat 204 m226 km
050100150200226 km
  1. 0 kmVelké Dářkoat 474 m
  2. 0 kmVodní nádrž Pilská0.4 km²
  3. 0 kmMostek přes Sázavu
  4. 1 kmŽďár nad Sázavou20,404 people
  5. 3 kmRailway bridge in Žďár nad Sázavou
  6. 8 kmBrdičkův mlýn
  7. 21 kmRonov bridge
  8. 25 kmPřibyslav3,997 people
  9. 26 kmLosenický potoktributary
  10. 31 kmBorovský potoktributary
  11. 32 kmStone bridge over the Sázava near Štukhejlský mlýn
  12. 41 kmBřevnický potoktributary
  13. 46 kmHavlíčkův Brod23,368 people
  14. 46 kmŽabinectributary
  15. 58 kmÚsobský potoktributary
  16. 68 kmSázavkatributary
  17. 69 kmSvětlá nad Sázavou6,394 people
  18. 79 kmPerlový potoktributary
  19. 86 kmLedeč nad Sázavou6,048 people
  20. 94 kmPstružný potoktributary
  21. 100 kmBudčický mlýn
  22. 110 kmZruč nad Sázavou4,925 people
  23. 110 kmŠvihov Reservoir11 km²
  24. 111 kmbridge of Vlašimská street over the Sázava in Zruč nad Sázavou
  25. 111 kmOstrovský potoktributary
  26. 116 kmŽelivkatributary
  27. 129 kmTichonický vodopád15 m
  28. 134 kmBridge over the Sázava in Soběšín
  29. 136 kmBlanicetributary
  30. 136 kmVodopád pod Dubinou5 m
  31. 138 kmŠternovské vodopády2 m
  32. 141 kmDrahňovické kaskády
  33. 144 kmRoad bridge over the Sázava in Ledečko
  34. 148 kmVranické vodopády
  35. 148 kmBělokozelské vodopády
  36. 149 kmFootbridge over the Sázava in Samopše
  37. 152 kmNechybský vodopád3 m
  38. 155 kmVodní mlýn Sázavského kláštera
  39. 155 kmFootbridge of K Podzámčí street in Sázava
  40. 155 kmRoad bridge over the Sázava in Sázava
  41. 155 kmSázava3,797 people
  42. 160 kmSamechovský vodopád6 m
  43. 161 kmJevanský potoktributary
  44. 161 kmBridge over the Sázava in Stříbrná Skalice
  45. 164 kmVodopády pod Hájenkou
  46. 170 kmHvězdonice343 people
  47. 170 kmKaliště389 people
  48. 171 kmVisutá lávka Hvězdonice
  49. 171 kmHighway bridge Hvězdonice
  50. 174 kmLensedelské vodopády2 m
  51. 179 kmBridge Lštění - Čtyřkoly
  52. 181 kmroad bridge over the Sázava in Čerčany
  53. 181 kmRailway bridge in Čerčany
  54. 182 kmČerčany3,133 people
  55. 184 kmKonopišťský potoktributary
  56. 185 kmMost císaře Františka Josefa
  57. 195 kmbikeway bridge in Zbořený Kostelec
  58. 198 kmJawa footbridge
  59. 198 kmrailway bridge over the Sázava in Týnec nad Sázavou
  60. 199 kmMasaryk bridge
  61. 199 kmTýnec nad Sázavou5,732 people
  62. 203 kmJanovický potoktributary
  63. 209 kmNovoveský vodopád2 m
  64. 210 kmBridge in Kamenný Přívoz
  65. 211 kmHostěradické vodopády3 m
  66. 212 kmJílové u Prahy5,262 people
  67. 214 kmOvčínské vodopády
  68. 216 kmTřebsínský vodopád3 m
  69. 221 kmFootbridge in Pikovice
  70. 226 kmVltavaat 204 m

Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.

River in the Czech Republic

At the mouth it carries 25 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 99 seconds. It drops from 474 m to 204 m, 1.2 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 4,350 km², about the size of CV. 323,000 people live in it. Highest water: March; lowest: from December to February. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (40% of a year's flow).

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Where to start

  • Havlíčkův BrodLargest city on its banks · 23,368 people
  • Pardubice Airport (PED)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 47 km from the cityCar hire at BRQ airport (Brno)Discover Cars · Affiliate link
  • On the water21 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
  • Kayak and canoe3 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
  • From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit

Sázava, month by month

Highest water: March

Lowest water: from December to February. Best months to visit: from May to September.

10
-2°27 mmJan
8.3
-1°26 mmFeb
57
3°33 mmMar
42
8°38 mmApr
38
13°68 mmMay
38
16°80 mmJun
40
18°82 mmJul
38
17°74 mmAug
32
13°49 mmSep
26
8°35 mmOct
27
3°37 mmNov
16
0°32 mmDec
Water (estimated flow)Air (average) Rain (mm)Best months

From about 8.3 m³/s in the lowest month to 57 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

Sázava: the basin in numbers

4,328 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.

Heavily regulatedReservoirs can hold 40% of a year's flow: dams shape its seasons.
  • 323,000people live in the basin
  • 75/km²people per km²
  • 498maverage altitude of the basin
  • 632mmof rain a year (basin average)
  • 7.4°Caverage air temperature
  • 5%protected areas
  • 0.4%covered by lakes
  • 0.3km³held in reservoirs

What covers the basin

  • 31% Forest
  • 42% Cropland
  • 7% Pasture
  • 2% 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

Sázava: what you find on the way

  • 9Damsvodní dílo Staviště, vodní dílo Želivka–Švihov and 7 more
  • 107Weirs203,6 Holemář, 202,3 U mamuta, Svetlá nad Sázavou and 104 more
  • 8WaterfallsOvčinské vodopády, Třebsínský vodopád, Kletecký vodopád and 5 more
  • 3Canoe put-insSvětlá nad Sázavou, Pikovice
  • 4Boat ramps
  • 4Ferry piersPřívoz Žampach and 3 more
  • 3MarinasDavle, PPS, Marina Davle, Zastávka Měchenice PPS
  • 10Boat rentalsSamba, Bisport, Bisport - pouze vyzvednutí and 7 more

From OpenStreetMap, within 1.6 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.

Cross-checked with our atlases

Sázava 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.

  • 14waterfalls on the riverCascadyas
  • 2lakes on its wayLakeyas
  • 29mountains at the sourcePeakyas

Waterfalls (14)

On the river, by Cascadyas

  1. Tichonický vodopádkm 9515m
  2. Vodopád pod Dubinoukm 1015m
  3. Šternovské vodopádykm 1022m
  4. Nechybský vodopádkm 1133m
  5. Samechovský vodopádkm 1196m
  6. Hostěradické vodopádykm 1563m
  7. Ovčínské vodopádykm 159
  8. Třebsínský vodopádkm 1603m

6 more on CascadyasCascadyas is coming soonOpen Cascadyas ↗

Lakes and reservoirs (2)

Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas

  1. Vodní nádrž Pilskákm 00.4km²
  2. Švihov Reservoirkm 8211km²

Lakeyas is coming soonOpen Lakeyas ↗

Mountains at the source (29)

Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas

  1. Žákova hora4.2 km away810m
  2. Kopeček13 km away822m
  3. Buchtův Kopec14 km away · prominence 124 m813m
  4. Šindelný vrch1.1 km away · prominence 107 m806m
  5. Křovina Sněžné-Samotín8.6 km away830m
  6. Křivý javor7.0 km away823m
  7. Vysoký kopec Sněžné13 km away806m
  8. Kamenný vrch0.9 km away803m

21 more on PeakyasOpen Peakyas ↗

From space

The source and the mouth, seen from orbit

Sázava: satellite view of the source
The source14 km across
Sázava: satellite view of the mouth
The mouth10 km across

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

Sázava in pictures

Sázava River (CZE) at Kliment's View
cs:Wikipedista:ŠJů · Public domain
Řeka Sázava pod Pohledí 1
Pohled 111 · CC0
Řeka Sázava pod Pohledí 3
Pohled 111 · CC0

Tributaries

Where it flows, and what flows into it

It flows into

VltavaCzechiaCzechia430 km150 m³/s

Tributaries (40)

Also: Želivka, Šlapanka, Blanice, Sázavka, Žabinec, Úsobský potok, Borovský potok, Břevnický potok, Janovický potok, Jevanský potok, Kamenický potok, Konopišťský potok, Losenický potok, Lučický potok, Nučický potok, Perlový potok, Staviště, Čestínský potok, Mokřanský potok, Ostrovský potok, Pstružný potok, Losinský potok, Žebrákovský potok, Štěpánovský potok

In the same basin

SpreeGermanyGermany382 km36 m³/sHavelGermanyGermany325 km89 m³/sSaaleGermanyGermany413 km120 m³/sOhřeCzechiaCzechia247 km38 m³/sMuldeGermanyGermany147 km65 m³/sWeisse ElsterGermanyGermany257 km100 m³/sOtavaCzechiaCzechia112 km26 m³/sEldeGermanyGermany208 km11 m³/sBlack ElsterGermanyGermany179 km350 m³/sUnstrutGermanyGermany192 km4.6 m³/s

Nearby

Rivers nearby

BerounkaCzechiaCzechia139 km150 m³/s13 km awayJizeraCzechiaCzechia167 km100 m³/s39 km awayOtavaCzechiaCzechia112 km26 m³/s52 km awayOhřeCzechiaCzechia247 km38 m³/s74 km awayLužniceCzechiaCzechia208 km20 m³/s73 km awayInnGermanyGermany517 km740 m³/s161 km awayIsarGermanyGermany292 km170 m³/s158 km awayEnnsAustriaAustria254 km200 m³/s184 km away

Where these numbers come from

Name, length, placesWikidata (Q38771) · CC0
Course, profile, basinRiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed from the source to the mouth given by Wikidata
FlowWaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0
Climate along the riverWorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0
Towns, bridges, damsWikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0
Along the river© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Our other atlasesCascadyas, Lakeyas, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST

Every source and licence is on the data sources page.

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