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Zagyva

179 km from source to mouth · Hungary.

HungaryHungaryFlows into Tisza10th longest in Hungary

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

In numbers

Length

179km

Average flow

9.5m³/s

Basin

5,677km²

Drop

102m

from 183 m to 81 m

Country

1

The journey

From source to mouth

179 km of river and 18 stops on the way: 16 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.

183 m81 m
Sourceat 183 m0 km
Pétervására2,568 people16 km
Verpelét4,016 people46 km
Kál3,683 people64 km
Jászdózsa2,225 people102 km
Jászjákóhalma3,088 people110 km
Jászalsószentgyörgy3,777 people140 km
Tápiótributary151 km
Tiszaat 81 m179 km
050100150179 km
  1. 0 kmSourceat 183 m
  2. 16 kmPétervására2,568 people
  3. 33 kmSirok2,068 people
  4. 46 kmVerpelét4,016 people
  5. 56 kmAldebrő2,178 people
  6. 63 kmKompolt2,166 people
  7. 64 kmKál3,683 people
  8. 83 kmNagyfüged1,615 people
  9. 96 kmTarnaörs1,840 people
  10. 102 kmJászdózsa2,225 people
  11. 110 kmJászjákóhalma3,088 people
  12. 112 kmStone bridge
  13. 129 kmAlattyán2,004 people
  14. 136 kmJánoshida2,709 people
  15. 140 kmJászalsószentgyörgy3,777 people
  16. 149 kmÚjszász6,855 people
  17. 151 kmTápiótributary
  18. 156 kmZagyvarékas3,700 people
  19. 177 kmSzolnok71,285 people
  20. 179 kmTiszaat 81 m

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

River in Hungary

At the mouth it carries 9.5 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 263 seconds. It drops from 183 m to 81 m, 0.6 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 5,677 km², about the size of BN. 550,000 people live in it. Highest water: February, April, June and December. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.

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Where to start

  • SzolnokLargest city on its banks · 71,285 people
  • Budapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 76 km from the cityCar hire at BUD airport (Budapest)Discover Cars · Affiliate link
  • On the water1 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
  • From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit

Zagyva, month by month

Highest water: February, April, June and December

Best months to visit: from May to September.

16
-2°29 mmJan
40
1°30 mmFeb
22
6°28 mmMar
33
11°40 mmApr
22
16°62 mmMay
37
19°69 mmJun
30
21°49 mmJul
20
20°50 mmAug
7.2
17°39 mmSep
8.3
11°35 mmOct
29
5°48 mmNov
42
0°39 mmDec
Water (estimated flow)Air (average) Rain (mm)Best months

From about 7.2 m³/s in the lowest month to 42 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

Zagyva: the basin in numbers

5,490 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.

Free-flowingDams upstream can hold only 1.6% of a year's flow: the river still keeps its natural rhythm.
  • 550,000people live in the basin
  • 100/km²people per km²
  • 194maverage altitude of the basin
  • 551mmof rain a year (basin average)
  • 10.0°Caverage air temperature
  • 9%protected areas
  • 0.2%covered by lakes
  • 0.0km³held in reservoirs

What covers the basin

  • 25% Forest
  • 49% Cropland
  • 8% 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

Zagyva: what you find on the way

  • 1Dams
  • 1Weirs
  • 1Boat ramps

From OpenStreetMap, within 1.6 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.

Cross-checked with our atlases

Zagyva 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.

  • 9mountains at the sourcePeakyas

Mountains at the source (9)

Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas

  1. Karancs6.4 km away725m
  2. Medvedia výšina3.0 km away659m
  3. Monica7.5 km away584m
  4. Ragáč12 km away537m
  5. Castle of Salgó, Salgótarján1.8 km away
  6. Karancs Hills6.4 km away
  7. Ragac12 km away
  8. Tri Chotáre7.8 km away

1 more on PeakyasOpen Peakyas ↗

From space

The source and the mouth, seen from orbit

Zagyva: satellite view of the source
The source14 km across
Zagyva: 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

Zagyva in pictures

Zagyva2
Sors bona · Public domain
Szolnok, Nyáry Lőrinc híd, Zagyva1
Sors bona · Public domain
Bridge of Route 23 over the Zagyva
Rakás · CC BY-SA 3.0

Tributaries

Where it flows, and what flows into it

It flows into

TiszaSerbiaSerbia966 km800 m³/s

Tributaries (6)

Also: Tápió, Tarna, Kövecses Stream, Iványi-patak, Galya-patak, Mindszenti-patak

In the same basin

DanubeRomaniaRomania2,850 km5,400 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/sOlt RiverRomaniaRomania615 km170 m³/s

Nearby

Rivers nearby

Körös RiverHungaryHungary93 km21 m³/s51 km awayMureș RiverHungaryHungary803 km160 m³/s106 km awayCrișul Repede RiverHungaryHungary209 km19 m³/s64 km awayBarcău RiverHungaryHungary134 km6.1 m³/s70 km awayCrișul Alb RiverHungaryHungary236 km24 m³/s85 km awayHornádHungaryHungary286 km31 m³/s106 km awaySajóHungaryHungary229 km70 m³/s108 km awayHronSlovakiaSlovakia298 km54 m³/s130 km away

Where these numbers come from

Name, length, placesWikidata (Q140454) · 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 atlasesPeakyas — 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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