River
Rába
250 km from source to mouth · Hungary and Austria.
Hungary and AustriaFlows into Danube4th longest in Hungary
In numbers
Length
250km
Average flow
18m³/s
Basin
1,020km²
Drop
340m
from 448 m to 108 m
Countries
2
The journey
From source to mouth
250 km of river and 16 stops on the way: 7 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 448 m
- 11 kmWeiz9,221 people
- 18 kmWeizbachtributary
- 24 kmGleisdorf6,418 people
- 34 kmRabnitzbachtributary
- 51 kmFeldbach4,829 people
- 71 kmGrazbachtributary
- 82 kmSzölnöki Streamtributary
- 86 kmLafnitztributary
- 86 kmSzentgotthárd8,862 people
- 117 kmPinkatributary
- 118 kmKörmend12,368 people
- 161 kmSárvár15,343 people
- 166 kmGyöngyös Streamtributary
- 246 kmPetőfi Bridge, Győr
- 246 kmYouth Bridge, Győr
- 246 kmGyőr129,301 people
- 250 kmDanubeat 108 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Austria and Hungary
At the mouth it carries 18 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 139 seconds. It drops from 448 m to 108 m, 1.4 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 1,020 km², about the size of HK. 815,000 people live in it. Highest water: from June to August and December. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- GyőrLargest city on its banks · 129,301 people
- M. R. Štefánik Airport (BTS)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 63 km from the cityCar hire at BTS airport (Bratislava)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water23 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Rába, month by month
Highest water: from June to August and December
Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 25 m³/s in the lowest month to 84 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
Rába: the basin in numbers
10,299 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 815,000people live in the basin
- 79/km²people per km²
- 335maverage altitude of the basin
- 707mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 8.9°Caverage air temperature
- 16%protected areas
- 0.1%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 43% Forest
- 39% 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
Rába: what you find on the way
- 52WeirsGliederwehr, Uszadékterelő, Rőzse-gát and 49 more
- 2LocksFelső üzemvíz csatorna, Iparcsatorna
- 3Waterfalls
- 7Boat rampsCsónak vízre bocsátó hely and 6 more
- 14Marinasátemelő hely, kikötés, átemelő hely, vízreszállás, kikötés and 11 more
- 3River beachesFürdési lehetőség, Szentei hídi strand
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.8 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Rába 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.
55mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (55)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Hochlantsch7.1 km away1,720m
- Rennfeld14 km away · prominence 628 m1,629m
- Hochschlag6.4 km away1,580m
- Osser1.1 km away1,548m
- Rote Wand8.3 km away1,505m
- Plankogel3.4 km away1,531m
- Ebenschlag7.8 km away1,547m
- Frießenkogel3.4 km away1,491m
47 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
Rába in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Danube
Romania2,850 km5,400 m³/sTributaries (11)
Also: Pinka, Marcal, Lafnitz, Gyöngyös Stream, Rabnitzbach, Weizbach, Szölnöki Stream, Grazbach, Schwengentalbach, Tiefernitzbach, Doiberbach
Serbia
Croatia
Germany
MoldovaNearby
Rivers nearby
SlovakiaWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q182138) · 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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