River
Sakarya River
824 km from source to mouth · Turkey.
TurkeyFlows into Black Sea2nd longest in Turkey
In numbers
Length
824km
Average flow
240m³/s
Basin
65,000km²
Drop
997m
from 998 m to 1 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
824 km of river and 13 stops on the way: 6 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmÇiftelerat 998 m
- 45 kmÇifteler10,166 people
- 265 kmPorsuk Rivertributary
- 292 kmAnkara Rivertributary
- 341 kmKirmir Brooktributary
- 396 kmSarıyar Reservoir45 km²
- 515 kmMihalgazi9,677 people
- 615 kmOsmaneli15,708 people
- 663 kmGeyve20,199 people
- 696 kmSangarius Bridge
- 708 kmAdapazarı281,489 people
- 719 kmLake Poyrazlar0.6 km²
- 756 kmFerizli23,740 people
- 779 kmAkgöl3.0 km²
- 824 kmBlack Seaat 1 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Turkey
At the mouth it carries 244 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 10 seconds. It drops from 998 m to 1 m, 1.2 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 65,000 km², about the size of LT. 7.2 million people live in it. Highest water: from January to February; lowest: from July to October. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (49% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- AdapazarıLargest city on its banks · 281,489 people
- Bursa Yenişehir Airport (YEI)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 92 km from the cityCar hire at SAW airport (Pendik, Istanbul)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From June to OctoberThe best months to visit
Sakarya River, month by month
Highest water: from January to February
Lowest water: from July to October. Best months to visit: from June to October.
From about 89 m³/s in the lowest month to 460 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
Sakarya River: the basin in numbers
62,798 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 7.2millionpeople live in the basin
- 114/km²people per km²
- 975maverage altitude of the basin
- 500mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 10.7°Caverage air temperature
- 0.3%covered by lakes
- 3.7km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 13% Forest
- 35% Cropland
- 16% Pasture
- 3% 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
Sakarya River: what you find on the way
- 1Weirs
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.3 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Sakarya River 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.
3lakes on its wayLakeyas
1beach at the mouth or on the banksCoastya
4mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (3)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Sarıyar Reservoirkm 32845km²
- Lake Poyrazlarkm 5960.6km²
- Akgölkm 6463.0km²
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Beaches (1)
At the mouth (25 km) and on the banks, by Coastya
- Karasu Plajı4.3 km away25.0°C
Mountains at the source (4)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Serçe Hill13 km away
- Kurtbaşı Hill14 km away
- Balağıl Hill1.4 km away
- Karaçal Hill4.9 km away
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
Sakarya River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (3)
Also: Porsuk River, Ankara River, Kirmir Brook
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Turkey321 km79 m³/s198 km awayRezovskaTurkey112 km5.9 m³/s238 km awayVeleka
Bulgaria147 km5.0 m³/s246 km awayKamchiyaBulgaria244 km32 m³/s310 km awayTundzhaTurkey283 km180 m³/s345 km awayArdaTurkey290 km38 m³/s351 km awayMaritsaTurkey490 km200 m³/s390 km awayDanube
Romania2,850 km5,400 m³/s465 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q217466) · 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 — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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