River
Leitha
180 km from source to mouth · Hungary and Austria.
Hungary and AustriaFlows into Moson-Danube9th longest in Hungary
In numbers
Length
180km
Average flow
10m³/s
Basin
2,138km²
Drop
339m
from 455 m to 116 m
Countries
2
The journey
From source to mouth
180 km of river and 13 stops on the way: 9 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 455 m
- 35 kmSchwarzatributary
- 35 kmPittentributary
- 43 kmKatzelsdorf3,112 people
- 46 kmNeudörfl4,564 people
- 54 kmEggendorf4,794 people
- 59 kmNeufeld an der Leitha3,418 people
- 60 kmNeufelder See0.6 km²
- 63 kmPottendorf4,508 people
- 74 kmWarme Fischatributary
- 105 kmBruck an der Leitha6,882 people
- 151 kmHegyeshalom3,750 people
- 168 kmHalászi3,279 people
- 172 kmMosonmagyaróvár30,359 people
- 180 kmMoson-Danubeat 116 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Austria and Hungary
At the mouth it carries 10 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 250 seconds. It drops from 455 m to 116 m, 1.9 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 2,138 km², about the size of KM. 239,000 people live in it. Highest water: February, July and December. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- MosonmagyaróvárLargest city on its banks · 30,359 people
- M. R. Štefánik Airport (BTS)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 34 km from the cityCar hire at BTS airport (Bratislava)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water5 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
Leitha, month by month
Highest water: February, July and December
Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 16 m³/s in the lowest month to 47 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
Leitha: the basin in numbers
2,426 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 239,000people live in the basin
- 99/km²people per km²
- 511maverage altitude of the basin
- 763mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 7.8°Caverage air temperature
- 31%protected areas
What covers the basin
- 51% Forest
- 33% Cropland
- 8% Pasture
- 5% 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
Leitha: what you find on the way
- 53WeirsHegyeshalom, Lajta duzzasztó and 51 more
- 3Waterfalls
- 1Rapids
- 4Boat ramps
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.4 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Leitha 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
26mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Neufelder Seekm 540.6km²
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Mountains at the source (26)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Heuberg7.2 km away · prominence 154 m748m
- Kaltenberger Höhe14 km away862m
- Kulmriegel14 km away758m
- Auerberg7.7 km away · prominence 35 m724m
- Krieriegel5.3 km away · prominence 62 m682m
- Greimkogel11 km away · prominence 38 m677m
- Gsollberg11 km away790m
- Hartlspitz8.4 km away708m
18 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
Leitha in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (3)
Also: Schwarza, Pitten, Warme Fischa
Romania
Serbia
Croatia
Germany
MoldovaNearby
Rivers nearby
SlovakiaWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q659817) · 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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