In numbers
Length
112km
Basin
4,693km²
Drop
888m
from 893 m to 5 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
112 km of river and 1 stops on the way: 1 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 893 m
- 110 kmEilat52,299 people
- 112 kmMouthat 5 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
Wadi in Israel
It drops from 893 m to 5 m, 8.0 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 4,693 km², about the size of TT. 113,000 people live in it. Highest water: from January to February; lowest: from July to October. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- EilatLargest city on its banks · 52,299 people
- King Hussein International Airport (AQJ)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 9 km from the cityCar hire at AQJ airport (Aqaba)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water2 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From March to May and from October to NovemberThe best months to visit
Nahal Roded, month by month
Highest water: from January to February
Lowest water: from July to October. Best months to visit: from March to May and from October to November.
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
Nahal Roded: the basin in numbers
4,693 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 113,000people live in the basin
- 24/km²people per km²
- 966maverage altitude of the basin
- 57mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 18.7°Caverage air temperature
- 17%protected areas
What covers the basin
- 1% Cropland
- 6% Pasture
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
Nahal Roded: what you find on the way
- 2Weirs
- 2MarinasEilat Marina
- 18River beachesB12, The Fishermen Beach, Sun Bay Beach and 15 more
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.6 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Nahal Roded 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.
24beaches at the mouth and on the banksCoastya
7mountains at the sourcePeakyas
1island off the mouthIslandyas
Beaches (24)
At the mouth (25 km) and on the banks, by Coastya
- H̱of HaDeqel2.2 km away27.7°C
- H̱of Almog5.7 km away27.7°C
- H̱of Ofir7.8 km away27.7°C
- H̱of Mifrats HaShemeshkm 11127.7°C
- H̱of Sheẖafimkm 11127.7°C
- H̱of Kokhav HaYamkm 11127.7°C
- H̱of HaZahavkm 11127.7°C
- H̱of Royalkm 11127.7°C
16 more on CoastyaOpen Coastya ↗
Mountains at the source (7)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Jabal an Nāşifah12 km away
- Jabal al Qaws12 km away
- Jabal al Ghizlān11 km away
- Jabal al Ḩarad8.1 km away
- Jabal al Ḩaswah2.7 km away
- Jabal al Ḩaţţīyah15 km away
- Baţn al Ghūl14 km away
Islands off the mouth (1)
Within 30 km of the mouth, by Islandyas
- Pharaoh's Island14 km away0.0km²
Islandyas is coming soonOpen Islandyas ↗
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.
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (2)
Also: Nahal Netafim, Naẖal Ya‘el
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Jordan252 km52 m³/s234 km awayWadi MujibJordan72 km3.8 m³/s220 km awayYarkon River
Israel28 km12 m³/s285 km awayZarqa RiverJordan65 km6.5 m³/s291 km awayWadi Auja
Palestine208 km47 m³/s266 km awayYarmukIsrael57 km2.6 m³/s349 km awayNile
Egypt6,650 km2,800 m³/s487 km awayKishon RiverIsrael70 km7.6 m³/s364 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q35495984) · 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 | Coastya, Peakyas, Islandyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
Every source and licence is on the data sources page.
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