River
Nidda
90 km from source to mouth · Germany.
GermanyFlows into Main
In numbers
Length
90km
Average flow
13m³/s
Basin
1,619km²
Drop
38m
from 131 m to 93 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
90 km of river and 29 stops on the way: 10 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmTaufsteinat 131 m
- 9 kmKefenrod3,101 people
- 22 kmBüdingen22,411 people
- 31 kmGlauburg3,147 people
- 31 kmEichelbachtributary
- 37 kmAltenstadt12,437 people
- 37 kmLaisbachtributary
- 44 kmNiddabrücke Assenheim
- 44 kmNiddatal9,765 people
- 47 kmWettertributary
- 47 kmHorlofftributary
- 47 kmNidderau20,119 people
- 57 kmNiederdorfelden2,925 people
- 63 kmFormer mill complex
- 64 kmSpa house with spa park and memorial
- 64 kmBad Vilbel35,961 people
- 66 kmNiddertributary
- 66 kmErlenbach (Nidda)tributary
- 74 kmEschersheim tram viaduct
- 74 kmMaybachbrücke
- 78 kmPraunheimer Brücke
- 82 kmGallus42,012 people
- 84 kmpipeline bridge in Frankfurt am Main (3)
- 84 kmEschborn22,403 people
- 87 kmNied Railway Bridge
- 87 kmbridge of Main-Lahn-Bahn over Nidda
- 88 kmAlte Niddabrücke
- 88 kmnew bridge of Mainzer Landstraße over Nidda
- 88 kmold bridge of Mainzer Landstraße over Nidda
- 88 kmtram bridge Mainzer Landstraße
- 90 kmMainat 93 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Germany
At the mouth it carries 13 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 191 seconds. It drops from 131 m to 93 m, 0.4 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 1,619 km², about the size of GP. 6.1 million people live in it. Highest water: from December to January. Its dams hold back little of its water (2.5% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- GallusLargest city on its banks · 42,012 people
- Frankfurt Main Airport (FRA)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 10 km from the cityCar hire at FRA airport (Frankfurt am Main)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water13 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- Kayak and canoe5 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Nidda, month by month
Highest water: from December to January
Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 77 m³/s in the lowest month to 430 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
Nidda: the basin in numbers
26,832 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 6.1millionpeople live in the basin
- 228/km²people per km²
- 351maverage altitude of the basin
- 684mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 8.5°Caverage air temperature
- 34%protected areas
- 0.1%covered by lakes
- 0.2km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 31% Forest
- 32% Cropland
- 10% Pasture
- 12% 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
Nidda: what you find on the way
- 12WeirsEschersheimer Wehr, Praunheimer Wehr, Hausener Wehr and 9 more
- 2Waterfalls
- 4Rapids
- 1Canoe put-ins
- 9Boat rampsBootsbau Speck Slipway and 8 more
- 2Ferry piersFähre Höchst
- 1MarinasMarina Bootsbau Speck
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.1 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Nidda 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.
104mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (104)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Vogelsberg0.5 km away773m
- Taufstein1.7 km away · prominence 406 m773m
- Hoherodskopf2.4 km away764m
- Herchenhainer Höhe5.8 km away · prominence 70 m733m
- Sieben Ahorn0.5 km away753m
- Bilstein4.6 km away666m
- Schlossberg Ulrichstein5.8 km away614m
- Weißer Stein8.2 km away607m
96 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
Nidda in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
MainGermany524 km200 m³/sTributaries (24)
Also: Wetter, Nidder, Erlenbach (Nidda), Laisbach, Eichelbach, Urselbach, Sulzbach, Horloff, Kalbach, Gierbach, Ulfa, Rosbach, Hollergraben, Edelbach, Hohensteinerbach, Selzenbach, Wehrbach, Graswiesenbach, Salzbach, Hohlbach, Steinbach, Geringsgraben, Eschbach, Wester-Bach
The Netherlands
Switzerland
FranceNearby
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Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q706133) · 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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