River
Peene
136 km from source to mouth · Germany.
GermanyFlows into Peenestrom
In numbers
Length
136km
Average flow
50m³/s
Basin
5,110km²
Drop
15m
from 11 m to -4 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
136 km of river and 18 stops on the way: 8 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmMecklenburg Lake Districtat 11 m
- 10 kmGnoien3,362 people
- 52 kmKahldenbrücke
- 52 kmTollensetributary
- 53 kmMeyenkrebsbrücke
- 54 kmDemmin10,001 people
- 65 kmLoitz4,157 people
- 66 kmPeenebrücke Loitz
- 69 kmSchwingetributary
- 80 kmBentzin1,031 people
- 81 kmGörmin1,012 people
- 87 kmZarrenthiner Kiessee0.5 km²
- 90 kmPeenebrücke Jarmen
- 90 kmJarmen2,716 people
- 90 kmPeenetalbrücke
- 99 kmGützkow2,965 people
- 118 kmTrebeltributary
- 124 kmAnklam11,793 people
- 125 kmEisenbahnbrücke Anklam
- 136 kmPeenestromat -4 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 50 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 50 seconds. Its basin covers 5,110 km², about the size of TT. 267,000 people live in it. Highest water: from March to May; lowest: February. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- AnklamLargest city on its banks · 11,793 people
- Heringsdorf Airport (HDF)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 31 km from the cityCar hire at SZZ airport (Szczecin)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water49 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- Kayak and canoe5 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- From June to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Peene, month by month
Highest water: from March to May
Lowest water: February. Best months to visit: from June to September.
From about 30 m³/s in the lowest month to 94 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
Peene: the basin in numbers
5,302 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 267,000people live in the basin
- 52/km²people per km²
- 36maverage altitude of the basin
- 563mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 8.1°Caverage air temperature
- 25%protected areas
- 1.7%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 3% Forest
- 55% Cropland
- 14% Pasture
- 2% 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
Peene: what you find on the way
- 2Weirs
- 5Canoe put-ins
- 20Boat ramps
- 2Ferry piersStolpmühl, Stolpe
- 23MarinasWasserwanderrastplatz Nehringen, Wasserwanderrastplatz, Demminer Segelclub Blau-Weiß and 20 more
- 1River beaches
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.6 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Peene 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
8beaches at the mouth and on the banksCoastya
10mountains at the sourcePeakyas
4islands off the mouthIslandyas
Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Zarrenthiner Kiesseekm 710.5km²
Lakeyas is coming soonOpen Lakeyas ↗
Beaches (8)
At the mouth (25 km) and on the banks, by Coastya
- Balmer See17 km away · cove19.2°C
- Lassaner Bucht11 km away · cove19.3°C
- Störlanke24 km away · cove19.3°C
- Spitzenhörner Bucht23 km away · cove19.3°C
- Mellsee22 km away · cove19.3°C
- Hohendorfer See20 km away · cove19.3°C
- Sauziner Bucht20 km away · cove19.3°C
- Nepperminer See18 km away · cove19.2°C
Mountains at the source (10)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Alte Burg11 km away
- Bocks-Berg13 km away
- Gertz-Berg15 km away
- Hohe Heide13 km away
- Dornrehmel-Berg12 km away
- Tonnen-Berg13 km away
- Moltkeburg5.8 km away
- Silber-Berg14 km away
2 more on PeakyasOpen Peakyas ↗
Islands off the mouth (4)
Within 30 km of the mouth, by Islandyas
- Usedom20 km away445km²
- Görmitz20 km away
- Balmer Werder18 km away0.1km²
- Böhmke18 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 (4)
Also: Tollense, Trebel, Schwinge, Swinow-Bach
Nearby
Rivers nearby
PolandWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1658) · 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, Coastya, Peakyas, Islandyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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