River
Godavari River
1,465 km from source to mouth · India.
IndiaFlows into Bay of Bengal3rd longest in India
In numbers
Length
1,465km
Average flow
3,100m³/s
Basin
313,000km²
Drop
631m
from 631 m to 0 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
1,465 km of river and 40 stops on the way: 27 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 631 m
- 25 kmNashik1,486,053 people
- 34 kmEklahare9,376 people
- 63 kmBanganga Rivertributary
- 113 kmKopargaon65,273 people
- 190 kmPravara Rivertributary
- 230 kmNath Sagar275 km²
- 232 kmPaithan41,536 people
- 414 kmSonpet15,765 people
- 465 kmGangākher49,891 people
- 558 kmNanded550,564 people
- 561 kmBalīrāmpur11,939 people
- 561 kmDhanegaon9,809 people
- 562 kmWājegaon9,772 people
- 709 kmSriramsagar Reservoir336 km²
- 832 kmLakshettipet11,322 people
- 857 kmMancherial89,935 people
- 861 kmNāspur31,244 people
- 864 kmRāmgundam452,261 people
- 864 kmTarlapalli9,656 people
- 866 kmSingānuram20,061 people
- 880 kmJallaram9,329 people
- 893 kmManthani15,661 people
- 908 kmManer Rivertributary
- 927 kmChinnūr23,579 people
- 941 kmPranhita Rivertributary
- 989 kmIndravati Rivertributary
- 1,055 kmKamalāpuram11,493 people
- 1,090 kmJanampet Barrage
- 1,147 kmBhadrāchalam50,087 people
- 1,147 kmSarapāka22,149 people
- 1,200 kmSabari Rivertributary
- 1,268 kmPolavaram43,710 people
- 1,294 kmGodavari Fourth Bridge
- 1,296 kmKovvūr40,379 people
- 1,297 kmGodavari Arch Bridge
- 1,298 kmOld Godavari Bridge
- 1,299 kmRajamahendravaram376,333 people
- 1,299 kmGodavari Bridge
- 1,305 kmDowleswaram44,637 people
- 1,369 kmYanam55,626 people
- 1,465 kmBay of Bengalat 0 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in India
At the mouth it carries 3,061 m³/s on average: 1.2 Olympic pools every second. It drops from 631 m to 0 m, 0.4 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 313,000 km², about the size of PL. 72.3 million people live in it. Highest water: from September to October; lowest: from February to May. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (25% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- NashikLargest city on its banks · 1,486,053 people
- Nashik International Airport (ISK)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 19 km from the cityCar hire at BOM airport (Mumbai)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water7 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From November to FebruaryThe best months to visit
Godavari River, month by month
Highest water: from September to October
Lowest water: from February to May. Best months to visit: from November to February.
From about 330 m³/s in the lowest month to 12,500 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
Godavari River: the basin in numbers
310,380 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 72.3millionpeople live in the basin
- 235/km²people per km²
- 432maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,130mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 26.3°Caverage air temperature
- 3%protected areas
- 1.0%covered by lakes
- 27km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 31% Forest
- 55% Cropland
- 3% Pasture
- 6% 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
Godavari River: what you find on the way
- 17Weirshead regulator, Annaram pump house head regulator, Medigadda pump house head regulator and 14 more
- 6Ferry piersKaleshwaram and 5 more
- 1Marinas
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.7 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
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Godavari River 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.
2lakes on its wayLakeyas
1mountain at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (2)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Nath Sagarkm 232275km²
- Sriramsagar Reservoirkm 715336km²
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Mountains at the source (1)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Anjaneri4.6 km away1,280m
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
Godavari River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (16)
Also: Manjira River, Sabari River, Pranhita River, Pravara River, Maner River, Banganga River, Purna River, Sindphana River, Shivana River, Taliperu River, Kadam river, Darna River, Kadva River, Nasardi River, Karanja River
Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q191314) · 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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