Stream
Ramganga
600 km from source to mouth · India.
IndiaFlows into Ganges
In numbers
Length
600km
Average flow
940m³/s
Basin
30,641km²
Drop
1,194m
from 1,317 m to 123 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
600 km of river and 6 stops on the way: 5 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 1,317 m
- 153 kmKālāgarh Project Colony13,298 people
- 257 kmMorādābād721,139 people
- 303 kmKosi Rivertributary
- 305 kmShāhābād34,962 people
- 321 kmSarauli20,923 people
- 509 kmAllāhganj13,824 people
- 600 kmGangesat 123 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
Ganges tributary in India
At the mouth it carries 938 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 2.7 seconds. It drops from 1,317 m to 123 m, 2.0 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 30,641 km², about the size of BE. 44.5 million people live in it. Highest water: from August to September; lowest: from January to February and from April to May. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (21% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- MorādābādLargest city on its banks · 721,139 people
- Moradabad Airport (MZS)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 14 km from the cityCar hire at DEL airport (New Delhi)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From November to MarchThe best months to visit
Ramganga, month by month
Highest water: from August to September
Lowest water: from January to February and from April to May. Best months to visit: from November to March.
From about 160 m³/s in the lowest month to 3,500 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.
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The basin
Ramganga: the basin in numbers
75,011 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 44.5millionpeople live in the basin
- 594/km²people per km²
- 1,169maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,179mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 19.0°Caverage air temperature
- 8%protected areas
- 0.2%covered by lakes
- 3%glaciers
- 4%permafrost
- 6.2km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 19% Forest
- 56% Cropland
- 1% Pasture
- 8% Towns and cities
- 3% 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
Ramganga: what you find on the way
- 3Weirs
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.3 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
Ramganga in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
GangesIndia2,525 km12,000 m³/sTributaries (1)
Also: Kosi River
In the same basin
India2,900 km19,500 m³/sYamunaIndia1,376 km3,500 m³/sPadma River
Bangladesh120 km32,000 m³/sGandaki RiverIndia630 km1,800 m³/sChambal RiverIndia960 km600 m³/sJamuna RiverBangladesh245 km20,100 m³/sGhaghara RiverIndia1,080 km3,300 m³/sTeesta RiverBangladesh470 km1,300 m³/sGomti RiverIndia900 km230 m³/sKosi RiverIndia729 km2,300 m³/sNearby
Rivers nearby
India960 km600 m³/s98 km awayBetwa RiverIndia590 km500 m³/s140 km awaySharda RiverIndia350 km2,300 m³/s147 km awayYamunaIndia1,376 km3,500 m³/s276 km awayGomti RiverIndia900 km230 m³/s339 km awayBhagirathi RiverIndia205 km260 m³/s356 km awayAlaknanda RiverIndia190 km320 m³/s356 km awayBanas RiverIndia512 km34 m³/s344 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1850806) · 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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