In numbers
Length
130km
Average flow
5.8m³/s
Basin
1,950km²
Drop
213m
from 261 m to 48 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
130 km of river and 68 stops on the way: 60 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmAlpsat 261 m
- 0 kmLake of Pusiano5.2 km²
- 0 kmLake Alserio1.3 km²
- 0 kmMerone4,113 people
- 1 kmRogeno2,796 people
- 2 kmNobile-Monguzzo2,092 people
- 4 kmLambrugo2,455 people
- 5 kmCosta Masnaga3,775 people
- 6 kmTabiago-Cibrone1,715 people
- 7 kmNibionno1,168 people
- 8 kmVeduggio Con Colzano4,314 people
- 10 kmCapriano2,296 people
- 11 kmInverigo8,475 people
- 12 kmArosio4,960 people
- 14 kmBriosco2,906 people
- 15 kmGiussano25,916 people
- 17 kmVilla Raverio2,194 people
- 17 kmZoccorino-Vergo2,115 people
- 17 kmVerano Brianza9,021 people
- 19 kmCosta Lambro1,146 people
- 19 kmCarate Brianza15,404 people
- 21 kmCalò1,140 people
- 22 kmAlbiate6,158 people
- 24 kmTriuggio4,226 people
- 25 kmSovico7,624 people
- 27 kmMacherio6,999 people
- 27 kmCanonica1,851 people
- 28 kmbridge of the Seregno-Bergamo railway
- 28 kmLesmo7,959 people
- 31 kmBiassono10,897 people
- 31 kmArcore16,690 people
- 33 kmBridge on the Lambro river
- 34 kmVillasanta13,424 people
- 35 kmVedano al Lambro7,426 people
- 36 kmCavriga Bridge
- 38 kmPonte Nuovo
- 39 kmMonza121,799 people
- 44 kmBrugherio33,061 people
- 47 kmCologno Monzese45,786 people
- 51 kmVimodrone17,072 people
- 51 kmAdriano17,508 people
- 54 kmMilano Due6,087 people
- 56 kmParchi Viaduct
- 60 kmNovegro-Tregarezzo-San Felice4,639 people
- 60 kmIdroscalo di Milano0.7 km²
- 63 kmLinate1,080 people
- 64 kmMezzate3,035 people
- 68 kmBettola-Zeloforomagno13,761 people
- 68 kmSan Donato Milanese28,351 people
- 72 kmSan Giuliano Milanese31,050 people
- 73 kmTriginto1,153 people
- 73 kmMediglia1,832 people
- 79 kmMelegnano16,707 people
- 81 kmVizzolo Predabissi3,118 people
- 82 kmRiozzo2,505 people
- 84 kmCerro al Lambro2,373 people
- 84 kmSordio3,149 people
- 87 kmSan Zenone al Lambro3,203 people
- 89 kmMairano1,991 people
- 93 kmSalerano sul Lambro2,607 people
- 100 kmCastiraga Vidardo1,633 people
- 100 kmVidardo2,496 people
- 103 kmSant'Angelo Lodigiano11,516 people
- 106 kmBargano1,087 people
- 111 kmGraffignana2,402 people
- 117 kmSan Colombano al Lambro6,896 people
- 121 kmLivraga2,126 people
- 125 kmLambrinia1,135 people
- 126 kmOrio Litta1,995 people
- 130 kmPoat 48 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Italy
At the mouth it carries 5.8 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 431 seconds. It drops from 261 m to 48 m, 1.6 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 1,950 km², about the size of MU. 2.8 million people live in it. Highest water: November; lowest: July. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- MonzaLargest city on its banks · 121,799 people
- Milano Linate Airport (LIN)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 15 km from the cityCar hire at LIN airport (Segrate)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water5 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Lambro, month by month
Highest water: November
Lowest water: July. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 28 m³/s in the lowest month to 53 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
Lambro: the basin in numbers
1,499 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 2.8millionpeople live in the basin
- 1,890/km²people per km²
- 209maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,037mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 12.4°Caverage air temperature
- 5%protected areas
- 0.6%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 11% Forest
- 30% Cropland
- 7% Pasture
- 71% 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
Lambro: what you find on the way
- 50Weirs
- 17LocksRoggia Lupa and 16 more
- 5WaterfallsCascata and 4 more
- 5Boat ramps
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.3 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Lambro 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.
3lakes on its wayLakeyas
42mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (3)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Lake of Pusianokm 0 · 27 m deep5.2km²
- Lake Alseriokm 0 · 8 m deep1.3km²
- Idroscalo di Milanokm 40 · 5 m deep0.7km²
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Mountains at the source (42)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Monte San Primo15 km away · prominence 1,407 m1,686m
- Palanzone9.2 km away · prominence 315 m1,436m
- Cima del Costone14 km away1,614m
- Corni di Canzo10 km away · prominence 875 m1,373m
- Bollettone7.8 km away · prominence 192 m1,317m
- Monte Cornizzolo7.1 km away · prominence 140 m1,241m
- Monte Moregallo12 km away · prominence 168 m1,276m
- Monte Ponciv14 km away1,453m
34 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
Lambro in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Po
Italy652 km1,500 m³/sNearby
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Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q283969) · 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 | Lakeyas, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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