River
Anadyr
1,150 km from source to mouth · Russia.
RussiaFlows into Onemen Bay
In numbers
Length
1,150km
Average flow
2,200m³/s
Basin
191,000km²
Drop
618m
from 481 m to -137 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
1,150 km of river and 5 stops on the way: 0 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmStanovoy Rangeat 481 m
- 399 kmYeropoltributary
- 707 kmUbienkatributary
- 793 kmMayn Rivertributary
- 886 kmBelaya Rivertributary
- 1,056 kmKrasnoye Lake473 km²
- 1,150 kmOnemen Bayat -137 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Chukotka, Russia
At the mouth it carries 2,160 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 1.2 seconds. It drops from 481 m to -137 m, 0.5 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 191,000 km², about the size of SN. 5,811 people live in it. Highest water, with the snowmelt: from June to September; lowest: from January to April. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- Ugolny Yuri Ryktheu Airport (DYR)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 120 km from the city
- JulyThe best months to visit
Anadyr, month by month
Highest water: from June to September
Lowest water: from January to April. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from October to April. Melting snow makes up much of its water. Best months to visit: July.
From about 370 m³/s in the lowest month to 7,800 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
Some links above are affiliate links: if you book through them we may earn a commission, at no extra cost to you. It never changes what the data on this page says.
The basin
Anadyr: the basin in numbers
172,104 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 5,811people live in the basin
- 0/km²people per km²
- 362maverage altitude of the basin
- 333mmof rain a year (basin average)
- -11.2°Caverage air temperature
- 4%protected areas
- 0.7%covered by lakes
- 95%permafrost
What covers the basin
- 4% Forest
RiverATLAS (HydroATLAS v1.0, CC BY 4.0): land cover, people, protected areas, glaciers and dams over the whole basin upstream of the mouth.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Anadyr 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
Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Krasnoye Lakekm 848473km²
Lakeyas is coming soonOpen Lakeyas ↗
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
Anadyr in pictures

Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (7)
Also: Belaya River, Tanyurer River, Mayn River, Yeropol, Chineyveyem, Yablon, Ubienka
Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q26390) · 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 |
Every source and licence is on the data sources page.
The family
Do you prefer beaches, lakes, mountains, waterfalls, islands, rivers or canyons?
Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, month by month, in seven languages.