River
Poprad
174 km from source to mouth · Poland and Slovakia.
Poland and SlovakiaFlows into Dunajec
In numbers
Length
174km
Average flow
220m³/s
Basin
2,081km²
Drop
422m
from 704 m to 282 m
Countries
2
The journey
From source to mouth
174 km of river and 28 stops on the way: 25 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmKrupáat 704 m
- 3 kmSvit7,700 people
- 11 kmPoprad48,034 people
- 14 kmSpisska Sobota2,909 people
- 21 kmStudený potoktributary
- 23 kmVeľká Lomnica5,612 people
- 25 kmHuncovce3,277 people
- 31 kmKežmarok14,984 people
- 37 kmSpišská Belá6,648 people
- 41 kmKrížová Ves2,468 people
- 44 kmJurské1,545 people
- 48 kmPodhorany3,102 people
- 48 kmBielatributary
- 53 kmPodolínec3,053 people
- 55 kmLomnička3,839 people
- 60 kmNižné Ružbachy618 people
- 60 kmVyšné Ružbachy1,419 people
- 67 kmHniezdne1,393 people
- 73 kmStará Ľubovňa15,534 people
- 82 kmHajtovka83 people
- 92 kmPlaveč1,773 people
- 97 kmOrlov599 people
- 112 kmMuszyna5,018 people
- 140 kmWierchomlankatributary
- 144 kmPiwniczna-Zdrój5,793 people
- 153 kmRytro3,700 people
- 166 kmStary Sącz8,959 people
- 174 kmNowy Sącz84,376 people
- 174 kmChełmiec2,657 people
- 174 kmDunajecat 282 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Poland and in Slovakia
At the mouth it carries 223 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 11 seconds. It drops from 704 m to 282 m, 2.4 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 2,081 km², about the size of MU. 513,000 people live in it. Highest water: March; lowest: from December to February. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (12% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- Nowy SączLargest city on its banks · 84,376 people
- Poprad-Tatry Airport (TAT)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 70 km from the cityCar hire at TAT airport (Poprad)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water4 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From June to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Poprad, month by month
Highest water: March
Lowest water: from December to February. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): January. Best months to visit: from June to September.
From about 21 m³/s in the lowest month to 150 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
Poprad: the basin in numbers
4,265 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 513,000people live in the basin
- 120/km²people per km²
- 795maverage altitude of the basin
- 892mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 5.5°Caverage air temperature
- 23%protected areas
- 0.3%covered by lakes
- 0.2km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 74% Forest
- 14% Cropland
- 18% Pasture
- 7% 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
Poprad: what you find on the way
- 86Weirs
- 4WaterfallsWodospad Czercz and 3 more
- 1Boat ramps
- 1Marinas
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.6 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Poprad 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.
333mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (333)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Gerlachovský štít5.5 km away · prominence 2,349 m2,655m
- Rysy2.1 km away · prominence 163 m2,501m
- Kriváň4.7 km away2,494m
- Lomnický štít11 km away · prominence 434 m2,634m
- Giewont12 km away · prominence 170 m1,895m
- Ľadový štít9.1 km away2,627m
- Gerlachovská veža5.5 km away2,642m
- Malý Ľadový štít9.2 km away2,603m
325 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
Poprad in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
DunajecPoland274 km84 m³/sTributaries (30)
Also: Studený potok, Hincov potok, Slavkovský potok, Mlynica, Velický Potok, Krupá, Veľký Šum, Kežmarská Biela voda, Biela, Jakubianka, Ľubica, Malý Lipník, Ľubotínka, Skalnatý potok, Hraničná, Muszynka, Wierchomlanka, Holumnický potok, Kamienka, Rieka, Soliská, Veľký Lipník, Krížny potok, Toporský potok
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Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q756302) · 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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