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River

Someșul Mic

80 km from source to mouth · Romania.

RomaniaRomaniaFlows into Someș

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

In numbers

Length

80km

Average flow

21m³/s

Basin

3,773km²

Drop

170m

from 401 m to 231 m

Country

1

The journey

From source to mouth

80 km of river and 21 stops on the way: 11 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.

401 m231 m
Sourceat 401 m0 km
Căpuștributary7 km
Cluj-Napoca286,598 people20 km
Nadăștributary22 km
Becaștributary32 km
Apahida8,658 people37 km
Borșatributary47 km
Iclod4,351 people56 km
Gherla23,741 people67 km
Someșat 231 m80 km
020406080 km
  1. 0 kmSourceat 401 m
  2. 0 kmGilău7,745 people
  3. 0 kmSomeșul Recetributary
  4. 0 kmSomeșul Caldtributary
  5. 0 kmSomeșul Cald Lake0.8 km²
  6. 7 kmLuna de Sus2,015 people
  7. 7 kmCăpuștributary
  8. 11 kmFloreşti7,397 people
  9. 13 kmFeneștributary
  10. 20 kmPodul Elisabeta
  11. 20 kmCluj-Napoca286,598 people
  12. 22 kmNadăștributary
  13. 27 kmChintenitributary
  14. 32 kmBecaștributary
  15. 33 kmSânnicoară1,309 people
  16. 37 kmApahida8,658 people
  17. 47 kmBorșatributary
  18. 47 kmRăscruci1,522 people
  19. 49 kmBonțida2,979 people
  20. 56 kmIclod4,351 people
  21. 67 kmGherla23,741 people
  22. 78 kmMica3,799 people
  23. 80 kmSomeșat 231 m

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

River in Romania

At the mouth it carries 21 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 118 seconds. It drops from 401 m to 231 m, 2.1 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 3,773 km², about the size of CV. 507,000 people live in it. Highest water: March; lowest: from December to February and October. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (33% of a year's flow).

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Where to start

  • Cluj-NapocaLargest city on its banks · 286,598 people
  • Avram Iancu Cluj International Airport (CLJ)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 7 km from the cityCar hire at CLJ airport (Cluj-Napoca)Discover Cars · Affiliate link
  • On the water2 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
  • From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit

Someșul Mic, month by month

Highest water: March

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

12
-3°33 mmJan
9.7
-1°30 mmFeb
65
5°27 mmMar
50
10°47 mmApr
45
15°75 mmMay
44
17°87 mmJun
43
19°81 mmJul
38
18°68 mmAug
28
15°39 mmSep
26
10°37 mmOct
28
4°36 mmNov
17
-1°40 mmDec
Water (estimated flow)Air (average) Rain (mm)Best months

From about 9.7 m³/s in the lowest month to 65 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

Someșul Mic: the basin in numbers

3,748 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.

Heavily regulatedReservoirs can hold 33% of a year's flow: dams shape its seasons.
  • 507,000people live in the basin
  • 135/km²people per km²
  • 594maverage altitude of the basin
  • 671mmof rain a year (basin average)
  • 7.9°Caverage air temperature
  • 9%protected areas
  • 0.3%covered by lakes
  • 0.3km³held in reservoirs

What covers the basin

  • 39% Forest
  • 28% Cropland
  • 39% Pasture
  • 4% 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

Someșul Mic: what you find on the way

  • 11DamsBarajul Someșul Cald, Barajul Gilău, Baraj Florești II and 8 more
  • 3Weirs
  • 2Boat rentals
  • 1River beaches

From OpenStreetMap, within 1.5 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.

Cross-checked with our atlases

Someșul Mic 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.

  • 1lake on its wayLakeyas
  • 1mountain at the sourcePeakyas

Lakes and reservoirs (1)

Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas

  1. Someșul Cald Lakekm 00.8km²

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Mountains at the source (1)

Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas

  1. Fața Lunei4.3 km away

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From space

The source and the mouth, seen from orbit

Someșul Mic: satellite view of the source
The source14 km across
Someșul Mic: 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

Someșul Mic in pictures

Someșul Mic la Iclod (1)
Țetcu Mircea Rareș · CC BY-SA 4.0
Cluj-Napoca, Someş
cs:ŠJů · CC BY-SA 3.0
Someșul Mic la Iclod (2)
Țetcu Mircea Rareș · CC BY-SA 4.0

Tributaries

Where it flows, and what flows into it

It flows into

SomeșHungaryHungary418 km120 m³/s

Tributaries (21)

Also: Borșa, Someșul Cald, Nadăș, Becaș, Căpuș, Chinteni, Someșul Rece, Feneș, Bandău, Feiurdeni, Lujerdiu, Fizeș, Valea Mărului, Gădălin, Zăpodie, Gârbău River, Lonea River, Mălăroiu, Nima, Ocna, Orman

In the same basin

DanubeRomaniaRomania2,850 km5,400 m³/sTiszaSerbiaSerbia966 km800 m³/sSavaSerbiaSerbia945 km1,700 m³/sDravaCroatiaCroatia720 km620 m³/sInnGermanyGermany517 km740 m³/sPrutMoldovaMoldova953 km120 m³/sIsarGermanyGermany292 km170 m³/sMoravaAustriaAustria388 km110 m³/sDrinaSerbiaSerbia346 km120 m³/sSiret RiverRomaniaRomania740 km230 m³/s

Nearby

Rivers nearby

Iza RiverRomaniaRomania80 km17 m³/s89 km awayCheremosh RiverUkraineUkraine80 km27 m³/s188 km awaySuceava RiverRomaniaRomania160 km20 m³/s204 km awayLatoricaSlovakiaSlovakia182 km37 m³/s213 km awayBodrogHungaryHungary67 km120 m³/s216 km awayUzh RiverSlovakiaSlovakia127 km33 m³/s216 km awayLaborecSlovakiaSlovakia129 km540 m³/s213 km awaySajóHungaryHungary229 km70 m³/s228 km away

Where these numbers come from

Name, length, placesWikidata (Q1075168) · 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 atlasesLakeyas, 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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