River
Loisach
114 km from source to mouth · Germany and Austria.
Germany and AustriaFlows into Isar
In numbers
Length
114km
Average flow
54m³/s
Basin
954km²
Drop
269m
from 834 m to 565 m
Countries
2
The journey
From source to mouth
114 km of river and 21 stops on the way: 14 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 834 m
- 0 kmEhrwald2,593 people
- 13 kmEibsee1.5 km²
- 16 kmGrainau3,674 people
- 24 kmGarmisch-Partenkirchen28,088 people
- 29 kmKuhfluchtwasserfälle
- 29 kmFarchant3,563 people
- 34 kmOberau3,125 people
- 42 kmEschenlohe1,557 people
- 46 kmLoisachbrücke Ohlstadt
- 53 kmOhlstadt3,368 people
- 62 kmBausteinschichten NW von Zell
- 63 kmGroßweil1,409 people
- 71 kmLainbach (Loisach)tributary
- 71 kmSindelsbachtributary
- 75 kmPenzberg16,079 people
- 78 kmBichl2,007 people
- 81 kmBad Heilbrunn3,697 people
- 99 kmEurasburg4,397 people
- 107 kmSebastianisteg
- 108 kmWolfratshausen19,536 people
- 112 kmIcking3,586 people
- 114 kmIsarat 565 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River
At the mouth it carries 54 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 46 seconds. It drops from 834 m to 565 m, 2.4 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 954 km², about the size of HK. 255,000 people live in it. Highest water: March; lowest: from December to February. Its dams hold back little of its water (5.0% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- Garmisch-PartenkirchenLargest city on its banks · 28,088 people
- Innsbruck Airport (INN)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 33 km from the cityCar hire at INN airport (Innsbruck)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water6 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- Kayak and canoe10 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- From June to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Loisach, month by month
Highest water: March
Lowest water: from December to February. Best months to visit: from June to September.
From about 35 m³/s in the lowest month to 100 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
Loisach: the basin in numbers
2,728 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 255,000people live in the basin
- 95/km²people per km²
- 1,166maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,043mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 5.5°Caverage air temperature
- 43%protected areas
- 1.3%covered by lakes
- 0.1km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 82% Forest
- 2% Cropland
- 21% Pasture
- 4% 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
Loisach: what you find on the way
- 68WeirsWehr an der Loisach, Wehr Farchant, Loisachwehr Großweil and 65 more
- 25WaterfallsWasserfall Häselgehrbach, Häselgehrfall, Unterer Kuhfluchtwasserfall and 22 more
- 4RapidsDom, Treppenhaus and 2 more
- 6Canoe put-ins
- 4Boat rampsAusstiegsstelle, Floßlände Loisach, Floßlände Isar and 1 more
- 3River beachesStrandbad Pflegersee
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.5 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Loisach 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.
2waterfalls on the riverCascadyas
1lake on its wayLakeyas
125mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Waterfalls (2)
On the river, by Cascadyas
- Kuhfluchtwasserfällekm 24
- Bausteinschichten NW von Zellkm 52
Cascadyas is coming soonOpen Cascadyas ↗
Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Eibseekm 11 · 35 m deep1.5km²
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Mountains at the source (125)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Zugspitze10 km away · prominence 1,746 m2,962m
- Hochwanner14 km away2,744m
- Schneefernerkopf8.5 km away · prominence 176 m2,874m
- Daniel6.8 km away · prominence 1,234 m2,342m
- Wetterspitzen8.0 km away2,746m
- Höllentalspitzen12 km away · prominence 115 m2,743m
- Hochplattig9.0 km away2,768m
- Alpspitze15 km away2,628m
117 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
Loisach in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
IsarGermany292 km170 m³/sTributaries (11)
Also: Partnach, Sindelsbach, Gießenbach, Lainbach (Loisach), Breiten Bach, Lahnenwiesgraben, Reindlbach, Mühlbach, Mühlbach, Geißbach, Häselgehrbach
Romania
Serbia
Croatia
MoldovaNearby
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Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q258400) · 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 | Cascadyas, Lakeyas, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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