River
Gera
85 km from source to mouth · Germany.
GermanyFlows into Unstrut
In numbers
Length
85km
Average flow
54m³/s
Basin
1,090km²
Drop
124m
from 271 m to 147 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
85 km of river and 17 stops on the way: 8 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmThuringian Forestat 271 m
- 0 kmTalbrücke Wilde Gera
- 1 kmPlaue1,995 people
- 9 kmArnstadt25,678 people
- 13 kmZahme Geratributary
- 13 kmWilde Geratributary
- 13 kmIchtershausen3,910 people
- 15 kmWipfratributary
- 18 kmIngersleben1,065 people
- 21 kmApfelstädttributary
- 22 kmGeratalbrücke Bischleben
- 26 kmRoßbrücke
- 28 kmWalkstromtributary
- 28 kmKrämerbrücke
- 28 kmErfurt217,159 people
- 39 kmElxleben2,405 people
- 41 kmWalschleben1,904 people
- 48 kmGebesee2,287 people
- 49 kmUnstrutat 147 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Thüringen, Germany
At the mouth it carries 54 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 46 seconds. It drops from 271 m to 147 m, 1.5 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 1,090 km², about the size of HK. 230,000 people live in it. Highest water: from June to July; lowest: January. Its dams hold back little of its water (8.1% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- ErfurtLargest city on its banks · 217,159 people
- Erfurt-Weimar Airport (ERF)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 5 km from the cityCar hire at LEJ airport (Schkeuditz)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water1 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From June to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Gera, month by month
Highest water: from June to July
Lowest water: January. Best months to visit: from June to September.
From about 2.8 m³/s in the lowest month to 14 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
Gera: the basin in numbers
1,088 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 230,000people live in the basin
- 212/km²people per km²
- 390maverage altitude of the basin
- 616mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 7.5°Caverage air temperature
- 26%protected areas
- 0.4%covered by lakes
- 0.0km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 26% Forest
- 40% Cropland
- 12% Pasture
- 14% 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
Gera: what you find on the way
- 27WeirsPapierwehr, Moritzwehr, Wehr Nettelbeckufer and 24 more
- 3Locks
- 1Boat ramps
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.2 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Gera 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.
82mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (82)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Kickelhahn12 km away · prominence 145 m861m
- Hohe Warte9.7 km away765m
- Pferdeberg15 km away805m
- Lindenberg12 km away · prominence 60 m749m
- Hirschkopf12 km away772m
- Kien-Berg11 km away720m
- Arles-Berg9.0 km away651m
- Heydaer Berg3.6 km away · prominence 168 m605m
74 more on PeakyasOpen Peakyas ↗
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
Gera in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
UnstrutGermany192 km4.6 m³/sTributaries (7)
Also: Apfelstädt, Zahme Gera, Wipfra, Wilde Gera, Lütsche, Reichenbach, Walkstrom
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| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q706112) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed along the river network from the point 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 | Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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