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Neva

74 km from source to mouth · Russia.

RussiaRussiaFlows into Neva Bay

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The river and every tributary in its basin, drawn from RiverATLAS (CC BY 4.0).

In numbers

Length

74km

Average flow

2,500m³/s

Basin

281,000km²

Drop

3m

from 3 m to 0 m

Country

1

The journey

From source to mouth

74 km of river and 42 stops on the way: 22 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.

50 m0 m
Lake Ladogaat 3 m0 km
Kirovsk24,678 people10 km
Moykatributary19 km
Otradnoye25,258 people28 km
Tosnatributary30 km
Pontonnyy9,001 people39 km
Izhoratributary41 km
Slavyankatributary50 km
Kudrovo30,000 people56 km
Centralniy214,625 people61 km
Neva Bayat 0 m74 km
020406074 km
  1. 0 kmLake Ladogaat 3 m
  2. 1 kmShlissel’burg12,115 people
  3. 1 kmImeni Morozova10,623 people
  4. 1 kmLake Ladoga17,444 km²
  5. 7 kmLadozhsky Bridge
  6. 10 kmKirovsk24,678 people
  7. 14 kmDubrovka7,771 people
  8. 19 kmMoykatributary
  9. 20 kmPavlovo3,348 people
  10. 22 kmMgatributary
  11. 22 kmKuzminsky railway bridge
  12. 28 kmOtradnoye25,258 people
  13. 30 kmTosnatributary
  14. 31 kmHill of Glory monument
  15. 36 kmSapërnyy1,371 people
  16. 37 kmImeni Sverdlova9,151 people
  17. 39 kmPontonnyy9,001 people
  18. 41 kmIzhoratributary
  19. 42 kmUst’-Izhora1,354 people
  20. 44 kmMetallostroy26,361 people
  21. 47 kmPetro-Slavyanka1,308 people
  22. 49 kmRybatskoye55,076 people
  23. 50 kmObukhovo45,664 people
  24. 50 kmSlavyankatributary
  25. 50 kmBolshoy Obukhovsky Bridge
  26. 54 kmVolodarsky Bridge
  27. 56 kmKudrovo30,000 people
  28. 59 kmFinland Railway Bridge
  29. 60 kmAlexander Nevsky Bridge
  30. 61 kmCentralniy214,625 people
  31. 62 kmBolsheokhtinsky Bridge
  32. 63 kmOkhtatributary
  33. 65 kmFinlyandskiy72,292 people
  34. 67 kmLiteyny Bridge
  35. 67 kmSampsonievskiy39,318 people
  36. 68 kmPetrogradka130,455 people
  37. 68 kmTrinity Bridge
  38. 70 kmPalace Bridge
  39. 70 kmSaint Petersburg5,351,935 people
  40. 70 kmIsaakievsky Bridge
  41. 71 kmBlagoveshchensky Bridge
  42. 72 kmAdmiralteisky157,897 people
  43. 72 kmVasyl'evsky Ostrov203,058 people
  44. 74 kmNeva Bayat 0 m

Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.

River in Russia connecting Lake Ladoga and the Baltic Sea

At the mouth it carries 2,500 m³/s on average: 1.0 Olympic pools every second. Its basin covers 281,000 km², about the size of EC. 6.3 million people live in it. Highest water, with the snowmelt: from April to July; lowest: from January to March. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (39% of a year's flow).

Read more on Wikipedia

Where to start

  • Saint PetersburgLargest city on its banks · 5,351,935 people
  • Pulkovo Airport (LED)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 16 km from the cityCar hire at LPP airport (Lappeenranta)Discover Cars · Affiliate link
  • On the water84 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

Neva, month by month

Highest water: from April to July

Lowest water: from January to March. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from December to February. Melting snow makes up much of its water. Best months to visit: from June to August.

2,300
-8°37 mmJan
2,100
-8°28 mmFeb
2,100
-3°32 mmMar
3,000
4°36 mmApr
3,000
10°39 mmMay
3,000
16°61 mmJun
3,000
18°76 mmJul
2,500
16°78 mmAug
2,600
11°71 mmSep
2,700
5°64 mmOct
2,600
0°58 mmNov
2,400
-5°48 mmDec
Water (estimated flow)Air (average) Rain (mm)Best months

From about 2,100 m³/s in the lowest month to 3,000 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

Neva: the basin in numbers

285,331 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.

Heavily regulatedReservoirs can hold 39% of a year's flow: dams shape its seasons.
  • 6.3millionpeople live in the basin
  • 23/km²people per km²
  • 101maverage altitude of the basin
  • 638mmof rain a year (basin average)
  • 3.0°Caverage air temperature
  • 6%protected areas
  • 16.6%covered by lakes
  • 32km³held in reservoirs

What covers the basin

  • 72% Forest
  • 6% Cropland
  • 3% 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

Neva: what you find on the way

  • 2Weirs
  • 1Rapids
  • 30Boat ramps
  • 38Ferry piersFerry to the Oreshek fortress (island), Utkina Zavod, Solyanoi prichal and 35 more
  • 15Marinas
  • 1Boat rentals
  • 1River beaches

From OpenStreetMap, within 2.7 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.

Cross-checked with our atlases

Neva 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
  • 1mountain at the sourcePeakyas
  • 11islands off the mouthIslandyas

Lakes and reservoirs (1)

Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas

  1. Lake Ladogakm 1 · 230 m deep17,444km²

Lakeyas is coming soonOpen Lakeyas ↗

Mountains at the source (1)

Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas

  1. Preobrazhensky hill3.3 km away

Open Peakyas ↗

Islands off the mouth (11)

Within 30 km of the mouth, by Islandyas

  1. Vasilyevsky Island2.2 km away11km²
  2. Petrogradsky Island5.4 km away6.3km²
  3. Yelagin Island6.6 km away0.9km²
  4. Aptekarsky Island6.7 km away2.0km²
  5. Kamenny Island6.7 km away11km²
  6. Kanonerskiy Island3.7 km away
  7. Ekateringof Island1.8 km away
  8. Monastyrsky Island7.3 km away

3 more on IslandyasIslandyas is coming soonOpen Islandyas ↗

From space

The source and the mouth, seen from orbit

Neva: satellite view of the source
The source14 km across
Neva: satellite view of the mouth
The mouth73 km across

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

Neva in pictures

Boats on Big Neva river
Florstein ( Telegram: WikiPhoto.Space ) · CC BY-SA 4.0
Neva river 01
Florstein ( Telegram: WikiPhoto.Space ) · CC BY-SA 4.0
Spb Evening view on Little Neva and Exchange Bridge
A.Savin · CC BY-SA 3.0
Saint-Petersburg Blagodat (ship) on Neva rivière
Pierre André Leclercq · CC BY 4.0

Tributaries

Where it flows, and what flows into it

Tributaries (14)

Also: Moyka River, Izhora, Tosna, Okhta, Mga, Slavyanka, Kronverksky Strait, Pryazhka, Dubrovka, Moyka, Utka, Chyornaya, Murzinka, Chyornaya Rechka

In the same basin

VolkhovRussiaRussia224 km590 m³/sSvirRussiaRussia224 km790 m³/sVuoksaRussiaRussia143 km680 m³/sLovatRussiaRussia530 km100 m³/s

Nearby

Rivers nearby

VuoksaRussiaRussia143 km680 m³/s80 km awayVolkhovRussiaRussia224 km590 m³/s118 km awayNarvaEstoniaEstonia74 km400 m³/s134 km awaySvirRussiaRussia224 km790 m³/s154 km awayLovatRussiaRussia530 km100 m³/s201 km awayKymi RiverFinlandFinland204 km300 m³/s196 km awayEmajõgiEstoniaEstonia100 km70 m³/s237 km awayVelikayaRussiaRussia430 km130 m³/s256 km away

Where these numbers come from

Name, length, placesWikidata (Q645) · CC0
Course, profile, basinRiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed from the source to the mouth given by Wikidata
FlowWaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0
Climate along the riverWorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0
Towns, bridges, damsWikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0
Along the river© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Our other atlasesLakeyas, 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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