River
Wda
198 km from source to mouth · Poland.
PolandFlows into Vistula
In numbers
Length
198km
Average flow
6.5m³/s
Basin
2,325km²
Drop
121m
from 139 m to 18 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
198 km of river and 20 stops on the way: 6 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 139 m
- 1 kmKłączno1.7 km²
- 4 kmKielsk1.2 km²
- 15 kmJezioro Długie (Zabory)1.4 km²
- 16 kmParszczenica0.6 km²
- 19 kmŚluza0.6 km²
- 23 kmJezioro Karsińskie6.4 km²
- 24 kmWitoczno0.9 km²
- 26 kmPłęsno0.8 km²
- 29 kmŁąckie Lake1.1 km²
- 35 kmDybrzyk2.7 km²
- 37 kmTrzemeszno1.7 km²
- 60 kmStobno0.9 km²
- 76 kmTuchola13,686 people
- 86 kmSzpitalne Jezioro0.7 km²
- 107 kmKoronowskie Lake8.8 km²
- 111 kmKoronowo10,965 people
- 139 kmBydgoszcz330,038 people
- 153 kmFordon70,000 people
- 186 kmChełmno20,576 people
- 193 kmŚwiecie24,796 people
- 198 kmVistulaat 18 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Poland
At the mouth it carries 6.5 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 383 seconds. It drops from 139 m to 18 m, 0.6 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 2,325 km², about the size of KM. 22.9 million people live in it. Highest water: from May to June; lowest: February. Its dams hold back little of its water (6.8% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- BydgoszczLargest city on its banks · 330,038 people
- Ignacy Jan Paderewski Bydgoszcz Airport (BZG)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 4 km from the cityCar hire at POZ airport (Poznań)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water46 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Wda, month by month
Highest water: from May to June
Lowest water: February. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 690 m³/s in the lowest month to 2,000 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
Wda: the basin in numbers
185,564 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 22.9millionpeople live in the basin
- 125/km²people per km²
- 210maverage altitude of the basin
- 604mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 7.3°Caverage air temperature
- 19%protected areas
- 0.8%covered by lakes
- 2.3km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 26% Forest
- 45% Cropland
- 15% Pasture
- 5% 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
Wda: what you find on the way
- 14WeirsJaz farny and 13 more
- 21LocksKanał Bydgoski, Stary Kanał Bydgoski, Śluza miejska and 18 more
- 7Boat ramps
- 13Ferry piersPrzeprawa promowa Sokole-Kuźnica, Przystań dla kajaków, Astoria and 10 more
- 21MarinasPrzystań Psia Góra, Przystań Kręgiel, Port jachtowy Tazbirowo and 18 more
- 8River beachesplaża Swornegacie, Freesurf - Szkoła Windsurfingu, Plaża Kręgiel and 5 more
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.6 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Wda 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.
14lakes on its wayLakeyas
1mountain at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (14)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Kłącznokm 11.7km²
- Jezioro Karsińskiekm 246.4km²
- Witocznokm 240.9km²
- Łąckie Lakekm 291.1km²
- Dybrzykkm 362.7km²
- Trzemesznokm 381.7km²
- Szpitalne Jeziorokm 880.7km²
- Koronowskie Lakekm 1108.8km²
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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
Wda in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
VistulaPoland1,047 km1,100 m³/sTributaries (4)
Also: Prusina, Trzebiocha, Ryszka, Sobińska Struga
Nearby
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Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q640476) · 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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