River
Nemunėlis
191 km from source to mouth · Latvia and Lithuania.
Latvia and LithuaniaFlows into Lielupe5th longest in Latvia
In numbers
Length
191km
Average flow
95m³/s
Basin
4,060km²
Drop
78m
from 83 m to 5 m
Countries
2
The journey
From source to mouth
191 km of river and 11 stops on the way: 4 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 83 m
- 11 kmDumblis0.3 km²
- 14 kmSkaistė0.5 km²
- 24 kmVyžuonatributary
- 56 kmNeretatributary
- 92 kmViesīte Rivertributary
- 107 kmApaščiatributary
- 131 kmMēmele68 people
- 136 kmBudberga74 people
- 145 kmDienvidsusējatributary
- 146 kmĒrgļi177 people
- 173 kmBauska9,566 people
- 191 kmLielupeat 5 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Lithuania and Latvia
At the mouth it carries 95 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 26 seconds. It drops from 83 m to 5 m, 0.4 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 4,060 km², about the size of CV. 218,000 people live in it. Highest water: from April to June; lowest: from January to March. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- BauskaLargest city on its banks · 9,566 people
- Riga International Airport (RIX)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 59 km from the cityCar hire at RIX airport (Riga)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water3 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- Kayak and canoe1 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- From June to AugustThe best months to visit
Nemunėlis, month by month
Highest water: from April to June
Lowest water: from January to March. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from January to February. Best months to visit: from June to August.
From about 30 m³/s in the lowest month to 200 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
Nemunėlis: the basin in numbers
9,600 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 218,000people live in the basin
- 23/km²people per km²
- 75maverage altitude of the basin
- 630mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 6.0°Caverage air temperature
- 11%protected areas
- 0.4%covered by lakes
- 0.0km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 17% Forest
- 52% Cropland
- 6% Pasture
- 1% 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
Nemunėlis: what you find on the way
- 1Weirs
- 1Rapidskrāce
- 1Boat ramps
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.8 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Nemunėlis 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.
2lakes on its wayLakeyas
Lakes and reservoirs (2)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Dumbliskm 90.3km²
- Skaistėkm 110.5km²
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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
Nemunėlis in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
LielupeLatvia119 km110 m³/sTributaries (6)
Also: Apaščia, Dienvidsusēja, Nereta, Vyžuona, Viesīte River, Bėnupė
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Latvia1,020 km680 m³/s64 km awayGaujaLatvia453 km71 m³/s78 km awayOgre RiverLatvia203 km18 m³/s50 km awayAivieksteLatvia114 km1.8 m³/s105 km awayNerisLithuania510 km180 m³/s174 km awayŠventojiLithuania246 km55 m³/s153 km awaySalacaLatvia99 km31 m³/s145 km awayNemanLithuania937 km680 m³/s215 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1352569) · 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 — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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