River
Sabarmati
371 km from source to mouth · India.
IndiaFlows into Arabian Sea
In numbers
Length
371km
Average flow
120m³/s
Basin
4,164km²
Drop
518m
from 524 m to 6 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
371 km of river and 13 stops on the way: 7 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 524 m
- 72 kmWakal Rivertributary
- 236 kmPethāpur23,497 people
- 242 kmGandhinagar292,797 people
- 259 kmChiloda9,735 people
- 259 kmBhat6,823 people
- 266 kmAhmadabad Cantonment7,588 people
- 271 kmNehru Bridge
- 272 kmEllis Bridge
- 272 kmAhmedabad7,645,000 people
- 272 kmAtal Pedestrian Bridge
- 273 kmSardar Bridge
- 281 kmSarkhej30,341 people
- 325 kmWatrak Rivertributary
- 371 kmArabian Seaat 6 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River of India
At the mouth it carries 120 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 21 seconds. It drops from 524 m to 6 m, 1.4 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 4,164 km², about the size of CV. 12.7 million people live in it. Highest water: from August to September; lowest: from February to May. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- AhmedabadLargest city on its banks · 7,645,000 people
- Sardar Vallabh Patel International Airport (AMD)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 8 km from the cityCar hire at AMD airport (Ahmedabad)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From November to FebruaryThe best months to visit
Sabarmati, month by month
Highest water: from August to September
Lowest water: from February to May. Best months to visit: from November to February.
From about 2.3 m³/s in the lowest month to 310 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
Sabarmati: the basin in numbers
19,340 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 12.7millionpeople live in the basin
- 655/km²people per km²
- 218maverage altitude of the basin
- 805mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 26.4°Caverage air temperature
- 1%protected areas
- 0.3%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 20% Forest
- 65% Cropland
- 5% Pasture
- 11% 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
Sabarmati: what you find on the way
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.0 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
Sabarmati in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (2)
Also: Watrak River, Wakal River
Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q630397) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed along the river network from the point 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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