River
Moldova River
205 km from source to mouth · Romania.
RomaniaFlows into Siret River
In numbers
Length
205km
Average flow
32m³/s
Basin
4,300km²
Drop
724m
from 900 m to 176 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
205 km of river and 22 stops on the way: 18 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 900 m
- 23 kmFundu Moldovei4,135 people
- 28 kmPojorâta3,107 people
- 39 kmCâmpulung Moldovenesc19,765 people
- 53 kmVama5,995 people
- 54 kmMoldovița Rivertributary
- 64 kmFrasin6,519 people
- 73 kmGura Humorului15,728 people
- 76 kmPăltinoasa5,635 people
- 89 kmSuha Mică Rivertributary
- 93 kmMălini7,163 people
- 97 kmCornu Luncii7,288 people
- 106 kmBaia6,762 people
- 119 kmVadu Moldovei7,325 people
- 144 kmNeamț Rivertributary
- 145 kmTimişeşti4,004 people
- 156 kmTopolița Rivertributary
- 181 kmGherăeşti6,448 people
- 184 kmPildești3,779 people
- 191 kmCordun7,124 people
- 197 kmRoman67,819 people
- 198 kmHoria3,277 people
- 201 kmCotu Vameș3,168 people
- 205 kmSiret Riverat 176 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Romania and Moldova
At the mouth it carries 32 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 78 seconds. It drops from 900 m to 176 m, 3.5 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 4,300 km², about the size of CV. 299,000 people live in it. Highest water: March and from June to July; lowest: from December to February. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- RomanLargest city on its banks · 67,819 people
- Bacău George Enescu International Airport (BCM)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 44 km from the cityCar hire at BCM airport (Bacău)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water1 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Moldova River, month by month
Highest water: March and from June to July
Lowest water: from December to February. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): January. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 9.2 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.
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The basin
Moldova River: the basin in numbers
4,329 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 299,000people live in the basin
- 69/km²people per km²
- 677maverage altitude of the basin
- 657mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 6.6°Caverage air temperature
- 5%protected areas
What covers the basin
- 62% Forest
- 25% Cropland
- 19% Pasture
- 3% 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
Moldova River: what you find on the way
- 2Weirs
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.6 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Moldova 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.
2mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (2)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Tomnatyk14 km away
- Gora Ropechel12 km away
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
Moldova River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Siret RiverRomania740 km230 m³/sTributaries (14)
Also: Moldovița River, Neamț River, Topolița River, Ciurlac River, Suha Mică River, Șomuz, Râșca River, Humor River, Izvorul Alb River, Putna River, Sadova River, Suha Mare River, Suha River, Umbrari River
Serbia
Croatia
Germany
AustriaNearby
Rivers nearby
Romania272 km66 m³/s47 km awaySuceava RiverRomania160 km20 m³/s75 km awayJijia RiverRomania275 km160 m³/s85 km awayPrut
Moldova953 km120 m³/s187 km awayBârlad RiverRomania207 km9.0 m³/s149 km awayRăutMoldova286 km320 m³/s169 km awayDanubeRomania2,850 km5,400 m³/s279 km awayZbruch
Ukraine247 km230 m³/s186 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q539053) · 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 | Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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