River
Padma River
120 km from source to mouth · Bangladesh and India.
Bangladesh and IndiaFlows into Meghna River3rd longest in Bangladesh
In numbers
Length
120km
Average flow
32,000m³/s
Basin
1,640,000km²
Drop
2m
from 0 m to -2 m
Countries
2
The journey
From source to mouth
120 km of river and 3 stops on the way: 1 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 0 m
- 2 kmJamuna Rivertributary
- 70 kmPadma Bridge
- 119 kmChāndpur203,000 people
- 120 kmMeghna Riverat -2 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
Major river in Bangladesh
At the mouth it carries 32,000 m³/s on average: 13 Olympic pools every second. Its basin covers 1,640,000 km², about the size of IR. 634 million people live in it. Highest water: from August to September; lowest: from January to April. Its dams hold back little of its water (6.2% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- ChāndpurLargest city on its banks · 203,000 people
- Barisal Airport (BZL)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 60 km from the cityCar hire at CCU airport (Kolkata)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water27 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From November to FebruaryThe best months to visit
Padma River, month by month
Highest water: from August to September
Lowest water: from January to April. Best months to visit: from November to February.
From about 6,800 m³/s in the lowest month to 100,300 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
Padma River: the basin in numbers
1,574,223 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 634millionpeople live in the basin
- 407/km²people per km²
- 1,567maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,199mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 17.5°Caverage air temperature
- 10%protected areas
- 0.4%covered by lakes
- 2%glaciers
- 7%permafrost
- 79km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 17% Forest
- 39% Cropland
- 13% Pasture
- 6% Towns and cities
- 2% Ice
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
Padma River: what you find on the way
- 1Locks
- 27Ferry piersFerry Terminal, Daulatdia Ferry Terminal, Paturia Ferry Terminal and 24 more
From OpenStreetMap, within 3.1 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
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
Padma River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (1)
In the same basin
India2,525 km12,000 m³/sBrahmaputra RiverIndia2,900 km19,500 m³/sYamunaIndia1,376 km3,500 m³/sGandaki RiverIndia630 km1,800 m³/sChambal RiverIndia960 km600 m³/sGhaghara RiverIndia1,080 km3,300 m³/sTeesta RiverBangladesh470 km1,300 m³/sGomti RiverIndia900 km230 m³/sKosi RiverIndia729 km2,300 m³/sSon RiverIndia780 km1,200 m³/sNearby
Rivers nearby
India2,525 km12,000 m³/s0 km awayJamuna RiverBangladesh245 km20,100 m³/s110 km awayTeesta RiverBangladesh470 km1,300 m³/s267 km awayDamodar RiverIndia592 km680 m³/s278 km awayBrahmaputra RiverIndia2,900 km19,500 m³/s350 km awayMahananda RiverIndia360 km390 m³/s273 km awaySankosh RiverIndia320 km5,400 m³/s317 km awayManas RiverIndia400 km500 m³/s333 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q930773) · 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 |
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