River
Soła
89 km from source to mouth · Poland.
PolandFlows into Vistula
In numbers
Length
89km
Average flow
19m³/s
Basin
1,400km²
Drop
291m
from 515 m to 224 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
89 km of river and 29 stops on the way: 25 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 515 m
- 0 kmUjsoły2,392 people
- 6 kmRajcza3,438 people
- 12 kmMilówka4,448 people
- 17 kmCisiec3,296 people
- 19 kmWęgierska Górka4,233 people
- 20 kmCięcina4,373 people
- 27 kmWieprz3,535 people
- 32 kmŻywiec32,132 people
- 33 kmPietrzykowice4,339 people
- 35 kmŻylicatributary
- 36 kmZarzecze1,121 people
- 39 kmŻywiec Lake7.5 km²
- 40 kmCzernichów1,021 people
- 44 kmMiędzybrodzie Bialskie3,154 people
- 47 kmLake Międzybrodzie2.5 km²
- 48 kmPorąbka3,852 people
- 50 kmZbiornik Czaniecki0.5 km²
- 52 kmCzaniec5,536 people
- 54 kmKobiernice3,353 people
- 54 kmBujaków2,176 people
- 56 kmKęty19,249 people
- 59 kmNowa Wieś3,648 people
- 68 kmPrzecieszyn1,157 people
- 70 kmGrojec2,923 people
- 74 kmRajsko1,440 people
- 76 kmZaborze2,489 people
- 77 kmOświęcim36,956 people
- 78 kmBrzezinka2,100 people
- 79 kmBabice1,582 people
- 89 kmVistulaat 224 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in the Beskides, Poland
At the mouth it carries 19 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 133 seconds. It drops from 515 m to 224 m, 3.3 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 1,400 km². 2.6 million people live in it. Highest water: May; lowest: from December to February. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (22% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- OświęcimLargest city on its banks · 36,956 people
- Kraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 40 km from the cityCar hire at KRK airport (Balice)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water12 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- Kayak and canoe3 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- From June to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Soła, month by month
Highest water: May
Lowest water: from December to February. Best months to visit: from June to September.
From about 34 m³/s in the lowest month to 96 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
Soła: the basin in numbers
5,300 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 2.6millionpeople live in the basin
- 487/km²people per km²
- 398maverage altitude of the basin
- 786mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 7.7°Caverage air temperature
- 20%protected areas
- 1.7%covered by lakes
- 0.4km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 47% Forest
- 28% Cropland
- 13% Pasture
- 31% 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
Soła: what you find on the way
- 59WeirsStopień Dwory and 58 more
- 2LocksDwory
- 10Waterfalls
- 3Rapids
- 4Boat ramps
- 1Ferry piersPrzystań na Zaporze
- 4MarinasKlub Żeglarski Halny, Yacht Klub Polski Bielsko, Klub Żeglarski LOK „Dryf” and 1 more
- 2River beachesPlaża w Czernichowie, Plaża dla naturystów
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.6 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Soła 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.
3lakes on its wayLakeyas
67mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (3)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Żywiec Lakekm 38 · 20 m deep7.5km²
- Lake Międzybrodziekm 452.5km²
- Zbiornik Czanieckikm 480.5km²
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Mountains at the source (67)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Barania Góra14 km away · prominence 170 m1,220m
- Wielka Racza11 km away1,236m
- Rycerzowa8.7 km away1,226m
- Jaworzyna11 km away1,172m
- Bugaj11 km away1,140m
- Bania8.4 km away1,128m
- Oszus13 km away1,155m
- Mała Rycerzowa8.0 km away1,207m
59 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
Soła in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
VistulaPoland1,047 km1,100 m³/sTributaries (8)
Also: Koszarawa, Żylica, Leśnianka, Pisarzówka, Rybny Potok, Woda Ujsolska, Łękawka, Nickulina
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Czechia
SlovakiaWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q927195) · 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, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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