River
Tapti River
720 km from source to mouth · India.
IndiaFlows into Gulf of Khambhat
In numbers
Length
720km
Average flow
550m³/s
Basin
77,800km²
Drop
337m
from 335 m to -2 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
720 km of river and 14 stops on the way: 8 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 335 m
- 256 kmPurnatributary
- 278 kmKandāri16,353 people
- 279 kmBhusawal187,421 people
- 353 kmGirna Rivertributary
- 383 kmPanzara Rivertributary
- 465 kmGomai Rivertributary
- 565 kmUkāi Reservoir370 km²
- 567 kmUkai Dam
- 601 kmMāndvi18,669 people
- 611 kmKadod16,747 people
- 647 kmKāthor15,311 people
- 658 kmUtrān14,855 people
- 663 kmAmroli17,082 people
- 673 kmSurat5,935,000 people
- 720 kmGulf of Khambhatat -2 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in India
At the mouth it carries 545 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 4.6 seconds. It drops from 335 m to -2 m, 0.5 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 77,800 km², about the size of PA. 20.5 million people live in it. Highest water: from August to September; lowest: from February to May. It is heavily dammed: reservoirs can hold 57% of a year's flow.
Where to start
- SuratLargest city on its banks · 5,935,000 people
- Surat International Airport (STV)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 14 km from the cityCar hire at AMD airport (Ahmedabad)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From November to FebruaryThe best months to visit
Tapti River, month by month
Highest water: from August to September
Lowest water: from February to May. Best months to visit: from November to February.
From about 20 m³/s in the lowest month to 2,300 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
Tapti River: the basin in numbers
64,335 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 20.5millionpeople live in the basin
- 324/km²people per km²
- 376maverage altitude of the basin
- 842mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 26.4°Caverage air temperature
- 4%protected areas
- 0.9%covered by lakes
- 9.8km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 28% Forest
- 59% Cropland
- 4% Pasture
- 8% 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
Tapti River: what you find on the way
- 7Weirs
- 1River beachescustom
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.3 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Tapti River 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
Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Ukāi Reservoirkm 557370km²
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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
Tapti River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (5)
Also: Purna, Girna River, Gomai River, Mausam River, Panzara River
Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q707056) · 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 | Lakeyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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