River
Seille
138 km from source to mouth · France.
FranceFlows into Moselle
In numbers
Length
138km
Average flow
9.8m³/s
Basin
1,280km²
Drop
65m
from 227 m to 162 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
138 km of river and 47 stops on the way: 45 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmMaizières-lès-Vicat 227 m
- 25 kmEinville-au-Jard1,241 people
- 41 kmDombasle-sur-Meurthe9,256 people
- 45 kmVarangéville4,320 people
- 46 kmSaint-Nicolas-de-Port7,653 people
- 50 kmArt-sur-Meurthe1,660 people
- 54 kmLaneuveville-devant-Nancy5,168 people
- 56 kmJarville-la-Malgrange10,248 people
- 58 kmTomblaine7,703 people
- 58 kmSaulxures-lès-Nancy3,981 people
- 59 kmNancy105,058 people
- 59 kmEssey-lès-Nancy8,090 people
- 60 kmSaint-Max11,123 people
- 63 kmMalzéville8,095 people
- 63 kmMaxéville9,226 people
- 66 kmChampigneulles6,947 people
- 67 kmLay-Saint-Christophe2,681 people
- 68 kmBouxières-aux-Dames4,205 people
- 72 kmFrouard7,119 people
- 73 kmPompey5,341 people
- 75 kmCustines3,056 people
- 78 kmMarbache1,760 people
- 83 kmBelleville1,306 people
- 87 kmDieulouard4,851 people
- 95 kmBlénod-lès-Pont-à-Mousson5,014 people
- 97 kmMaidières1,398 people
- 97 kmPont-à-Mousson15,411 people
- 98 kmMontauville1,120 people
- 102 kmNorroy-lès-Pont-à-Mousson1,068 people
- 102 kmSeille Viaduct
- 109 kmPagny-sur-Moselle4,149 people
- 115 kmNovéant-sur-Moselle1,867 people
- 117 kmCorny-sur-Moselle1,806 people
- 119 kmAncy-sur-Moselle1,455 people
- 121 kmJouy-aux-Arches1,598 people
- 123 kmArs-sur-Moselle5,116 people
- 123 kmAugny2,615 people
- 125 kmRozérieulles1,360 people
- 128 kmMoulins-lès-Metz4,786 people
- 129 kmScy-Chazelles2,763 people
- 131 kmMontigny-lès-Metz26,369 people
- 132 kmLongeville-lès-Metz3,970 people
- 133 kmPlappeville2,468 people
- 133 kmLe Ban Saint-Martin4,332 people
- 134 kmPasserelle du Graoully
- 135 kmMetz122,572 people
- 136 kmWoippy13,721 people
- 137 kmSaint-Julien-lès-Metz3,228 people
- 138 kmMoselleat 162 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in France, tributary of the Moselle
At the mouth it carries 9.8 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 256 seconds. It drops from 227 m to 162 m, 0.5 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 1,280 km², about the size of MQ. 962,000 people live in it. Highest water: from December to February. Its dams hold back little of its water (2.3% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- MetzLargest city on its banks · 122,572 people
- Metz-Nancy-Lorraine Airport (ETZ)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 16 km from the cityCar hire at ETZ airport (Goin)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water43 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
Seille, month by month
Highest water: from December to February
Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 40 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
Seille: the basin in numbers
7,896 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 962,000people live in the basin
- 122/km²people per km²
- 380maverage altitude of the basin
- 843mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 8.9°Caverage air temperature
- 23%protected areas
- 0.3%covered by lakes
- 0.1km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 41% Forest
- 21% Cropland
- 20% 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
Seille: what you find on the way
- 26WeirsBarrage de la Californie, Digue de Wadrineau, Digue de la Pucelle and 23 more
- 112LocksCanal de la Marne au Rhin, Canal de Jonction de Nancy, La Moselle Canalisée and 109 more
- 1Canoe put-ins
- 9Boat ramps
- 6Ferry piersMoulins-lès-Metz, Scy-Chazelles, Longeville Centre and 3 more
- 25MarinasPort de Plaisance de Lagarde, Halte Nautique de Xures, Halte Nautique de Parroy and 22 more
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.7 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
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
Seille in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Moselle
Germany544 km320 m³/sTributaries (2)
Also: Loutre Noire, petite Seille
The Netherlands
SwitzerlandNearby
Rivers nearby
LuxembourgWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q599492) · 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 |
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