River
Wupper
115 km from source to mouth · Germany.
GermanyFlows into Rhine
In numbers
Length
115km
Average flow
17m³/s
Basin
815km²
Drop
166m
from 200 m to 34 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
115 km of river and 38 stops on the way: 35 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 200 m
- 0 kmBergneustadt20,567 people
- 4 kmGummersbach53,131 people
- 21 kmEngelskirchen20,786 people
- 23 kmLindlar21,665 people
- 36 kmOverath27,203 people
- 49 kmLohmar31,339 people
- 53 kmSiegburg39,135 people
- 56 kmTroisdorf74,749 people
- 64 kmBonn330,579 people
- 74 kmNiederkassel36,480 people
- 79 kmWesseling35,665 people
- 87 kmZündorf11,671 people
- 88 kmPorz am Rhein113,415 people
- 88 kmEil8,849 people
- 89 kmGremberghoven2,932 people
- 93 kmRodenkirchen110,158 people
- 95 kmPoll11,311 people
- 96 kmBayenthal8,714 people
- 97 kmHumboldtkolonie15,108 people
- 98 kmNeustadt/Süd37,939 people
- 98 kmAltstadt Sud27,515 people
- 98 kmKöln1,024,621 people
- 98 kmDeutz15,238 people
- 99 kmAltstadt Nord17,922 people
- 99 kmNeustadt/Nord28,146 people
- 99 kmNeuehrenfeld23,621 people
- 101 kmKalk22,802 people
- 101 kmNippes113,487 people
- 102 kmHöhenberg12,133 people
- 102 kmBuchforst7,177 people
- 102 kmRiehl11,188 people
- 102 kmBuchheim12,840 people
- 103 kmMülheim41,711 people
- 106 kmBilderstöckchen15,430 people
- 111 kmLeverkusen162,738 people
- 113 kmMurbachtributary
- 114 kmFühlingen Lake0.6 km²
- 115 kmDhünntributary
- 115 kmRhineat 34 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Germany
At the mouth it carries 17 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 147 seconds. It drops from 200 m to 34 m, 1.4 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 815 km². 36.1 million people live in it. Highest water: from December to March. Its dams hold back little of its water (3.1% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- KölnLargest city on its banks · 1,024,621 people
- Cologne Bonn Airport (CGN)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 16 km from the cityCar hire at CGN airport (Köln)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water70 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- Kayak and canoe1 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Wupper, month by month
Highest water: from December to March
Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 1,300 m³/s in the lowest month to 3,200 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
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The basin
Wupper: the basin in numbers
144,234 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 36.1millionpeople live in the basin
- 253/km²people per km²
- 521maverage altitude of the basin
- 877mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 8.1°Caverage air temperature
- 24%protected areas
- 1.0%covered by lakes
- 2.1km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 45% Forest
- 22% Cropland
- 17% Pasture
- 15% 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
Wupper: what you find on the way
- 35WeirsWehr Wiehlmünden, Staustufe Ehreshoven 1, Staustufe Ehreshoven1 and 32 more
- 1Locks
- 3Waterfalls
- 1Rapids
- 29Boat rampsBootseinsatzstelle Siegfähre, Ersatzübergangsstelle Wesseling, Nato-Rampe and 26 more
- 18Ferry piersSiegfähre, Autofähre Mondorf / Christophorus, Fahrgastschiff Anja and 15 more
- 21MarinasAm Zehnhoff-Söns, Yachthafen Mondorf, Yacht-Club Pirat Niederkassel (YCPN) and 18 more
- 6River beachesErholungsbereich Aggerwehr, Badestelle Rotter See, Kleiner Kiesstrand and 3 more
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.5 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Wupper 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
59mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Fühlingen Lakekm 1060.6km²
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Mountains at the source (59)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Nordhelle13 km away · prominence 265 m663m
- Reh-Berg15 km away646m
- Waldberg14 km away638m
- Homert9.7 km away538m
- Unnenberg3.5 km away506m
- Lumer6.3 km away386m
- Wernscheid2.7 km away344m
- Steupingen15 km away
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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
Wupper in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Rhine
The Netherlands1,233 km2,200 m³/sTributaries (74)
Also: Dhünn, Kerspe, Uelfe, Bever, Wiebach, Murbach, Sengbach, Weltersbach, Dörpe, Schwelme, Gaulbach, Eschbach, Remlingrader Bach, Steinhauser Bach, Hofsiefen, Spreeler Bach, Frohnhauser Bach, Brunsbach, Kretzer Bach, Mirker Bach, Hönnige, Blombach, Morsbach, Klusensprung
Switzerland
FranceNearby
Rivers nearby
BelgiumWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q639374) · 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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