River
Warnow
130 km from source to mouth · Germany.
GermanyFlows into Baltic Sea
In numbers
Length
130km
Average flow
31m³/s
Basin
3,324km²
Drop
52m
from 49 m to -3 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
130 km of river and 37 stops on the way: 13 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 49 m
- 18 kmDemen1,301 people
- 24 kmBarniner See2.3 km²
- 33 kmPinnower Kiessee0.3 km²
- 34 kmPinnower See2.1 km²
- 41 kmCambser See1.9 km²
- 49 kmMickowsee0.4 km²
- 51 kmKeezer See0.9 km²
- 66 kmLuckower See0.3 km²
- 68 kmGroßer Sternberger See2.1 km²
- 70 kmMildenitztributary
- 77 kmWarnow1,073 people
- 83 kmGroßer Peetscher See0.5 km²
- 85 kmRühner See0.8 km²
- 88 kmBützow8,146 people
- 89 kmBützower See0.7 km²
- 90 kmNebeltributary
- 101 kmRostock District211,878 people
- 105 kmHubbrücke Schwaan
- 105 kmSchwaan4,958 people
- 105 kmBeketributary
- 116 kmWarnow Valley Bridge
- 117 kmPapendorf2,514 people
- 118 kmNiexer Brücke
- 121 kmRoggentin2,348 people
- 122 kmKessiner Brücke
- 125 kmGeinitzbrücke
- 126 kmMühlendammschleuse
- 127 kmVorpommernbrücke
- 127 kmPetribrücke
- 127 kmDierkow-Neu10,552 people
- 127 kmDierkow-West1,192 people
- 128 kmRostock204,929 people
- 129 kmKröpeliner-Tor-Vorstadt19,542 people
- 130 kmPagenwerder
- 130 kmWarnemünde5,937 people
- 130 kmWarnow Tunnel
- 130 kmCarbäktributary
- 130 kmBaltic Seaat -3 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
At the mouth it carries 31 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 81 seconds. It drops from 49 m to -3 m, 0.4 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 3,324 km², about the size of CV. 198,000 people live in it. Highest water: from December to January. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- Rostock DistrictLargest city on its banks · 211,878 people
- Rostock-Laage Airport (RLG)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 3 km from the cityCar hire in RostockDiscover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water53 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- Kayak and canoe7 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- From June to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Warnow, month by month
Highest water: from December to January
Best months to visit: from June to September.
From about 17 m³/s in the lowest month to 52 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
Warnow: the basin in numbers
3,064 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 198,000people live in the basin
- 67/km²people per km²
- 43maverage altitude of the basin
- 591mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 8.3°Caverage air temperature
- 28%protected areas
- 2.8%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 11% Forest
- 51% Cropland
- 11% Pasture
- 3% 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
Warnow: what you find on the way
- 15WeirsWehr Nutteln, Wehr Bützow and 13 more
- 2Locks
- 7Canoe put-insEinsetzstelle Zaschendorf, Einsetzstelle Alt Necheln, Einsetzstelle Schönlage and 4 more
- 28Boat rampsSlipway ASVzR and 27 more
- 3Ferry piersSchnickmannstraße, Kabutzenhof Fähre, Gehlsdorf Fähre
- 13MarinasStadthafen Rostock, SSV - See- und Segelsportverein der Hansestadt Rostock, Museumshafen Hansestadt Rostock and 10 more
- 3River beachesBadestelle Zittow, FKK Strand, Wohnmobilhafen Camping Sternberger Seenland
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.5 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Warnow 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.
11lakes on its wayLakeyas
1beach at the mouth or on the banksCoastya
25mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (11)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Barniner Seekm 22 · 8 m deep2.3km²
- Pinnower Seekm 322.1km²
- Cambser Seekm 39 · 27 m deep1.9km²
- Keezer Seekm 480.9km²
- Luckower Seekm 610.3km²
- Großer Sternberger Seekm 642.1km²
- Großer Peetscher Seekm 780.5km²
- Bützower Seekm 840.7km²
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Beaches (1)
At the mouth (25 km) and on the banks, by Coastya
- Wollkuhl9.7 km away · cove18.0°C
Mountains at the source (25)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Hahnberg6.3 km away
- Groß Vietings-Berg14 km away
- Hum-Berg1.0 km away
- Breiten-Berg5.2 km away
- Hohe Warte12 km away
- Hohe Berg10 km away
- Flöh-Berg13 km away
- Dweer Berg10 km away
17 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
Warnow in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (9)
Also: Nebel, Beke, Zarnow, Mildenitz, Göwe, Motel, Brüeler Bach, Kösterbeck, Carbäk
Nearby
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PolandWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q3280) · 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, Coastya, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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