River
Zbruch
247 km from source to mouth · Ukraine.
UkraineFlows into Dniester
In numbers
Length
247km
Average flow
230m³/s
Basin
3,330km²
Drop
170m
from 285 m to 115 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
247 km of river and 18 stops on the way: 15 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmPodolian Uplandat 285 m
- 0 kmPalchyntsi552 people
- 4 kmZbruchivka44 people
- 14 kmProsivtsi88 people
- 21 kmGrabarkatributary
- 22 kmVolochysk18,474 people
- 26 kmStaromishchyna827 people
- 28 kmPidvolochysk7,843 people
- 39 kmOrikhovets777 people
- 39 kmBovenetstributary
- 45 kmRozhysk347 people
- 49 kmTarnoruda24 people
- 75 kmKalaharivka685 people
- 100 kmHnylatributary
- 108 kmHusiatyn7,083 people
- 142 kmZbryzh18 people
- 156 kmSkala-Podilska4,174 people
- 166 kmTriytsia59 people
- 241 kmOkopy557 people
- 247 kmDniesterat 115 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Ukraine
At the mouth it carries 234 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 11 seconds. It drops from 285 m to 115 m, 0.7 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 3,330 km², about the size of CV. 3.2 million people live in it. Highest water: from April to May; lowest: from December to February. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- VolochyskLargest city on its banks · 18,474 people
- Suceava Ștefan cel Mare International Airport (SCV)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 206 km from the cityCar hire at IFO airport (Ivano-Frankivsk)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water1 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
Zbruch, month by month
Highest water: from April to May
Lowest water: from December to February. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): January. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 110 m³/s in the lowest month to 520 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
Zbruch: the basin in numbers
33,538 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 3.2millionpeople live in the basin
- 97/km²people per km²
- 409maverage altitude of the basin
- 701mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 7.2°Caverage air temperature
- 8%protected areas
- 0.3%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 25% Forest
- 42% Cropland
- 7% 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
Zbruch: what you find on the way
- 2Weirs
- 5Locks
- 3Waterfalls
- 1Rapids
- 1Marinas
- 1River beaches
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.1 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
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Zbruch in our other atlases
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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
Zbruch in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
DniesterUkraine1,352 km310 m³/sTributaries (8)
Also: Hnyla, Samets, Bovenets, Vilkhovyi Potik, Grabarka, Samchyk, Sukhodil (river), Burdiakivtsi
MoldovaNearby
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| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q973951) · 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 — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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