River
Seret
242 km from source to mouth · Ukraine.
UkraineFlows into Dniester
In numbers
Length
242km
Average flow
12m³/s
Basin
3,900km²
Drop
176m
from 316 m to 140 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
242 km of river and 19 stops on the way: 12 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 316 m
- 10 kmZahiria1,227 people
- 47 kmNesterivkatributary
- 53 kmBila3,324 people
- 56 kmTernopil225,238 people
- 56 kmTarnopol Pond3.0 km²
- 60 kmPetrykiv3,033 people
- 65 kmVelyka Berezovytsya8,391 people
- 69 kmDovzhankatributary
- 70 kmOstriv1,726 people
- 79 kmBridoktributary
- 85 kmMykulyntsi3,604 people
- 107 kmTerebovlia13,425 people
- 113 kmHniznatributary
- 159 kmBelaya3,728 people
- 162 kmChortkiv28,393 people
- 211 kmBilche Zolote1,785 people
- 232 kmKasperivtsi Reservoir1.8 km²
- 233 kmTupatributary
- 241 kmHorodok727 people
- 242 kmDniesterat 140 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Ukraine
At the mouth it carries 12 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 208 seconds. It drops from 316 m to 140 m, 0.7 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 3,900 km², about the size of CV. 475,000 people live in it. Highest water: March; lowest: from December to February. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- TernopilLargest city on its banks · 225,238 people
- Suceava Ștefan cel Mare International Airport (SCV)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 216 km from the cityCar hire at IFO airport (Ivano-Frankivsk)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water5 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- Kayak and canoe1 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Seret, month by month
Highest water: March
Lowest water: from December to February. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): January. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 8.4 m³/s in the lowest month to 53 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
Seret: the basin in numbers
3,914 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 475,000people live in the basin
- 123/km²people per km²
- 330maverage altitude of the basin
- 638mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 7.3°Caverage air temperature
- 4%protected areas
- 0.5%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 5% Forest
- 63% Cropland
- 7% Pasture
- 4% 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
Seret: what you find on the way
- 11Weirs
- 2Waterfalls
- 1Rapids
- 2Boat ramps
- 3Marinas
- 3River beaches
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.6 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Seret 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.
2lakes on its wayLakeyas
1mountain at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (2)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Tarnopol Pondkm 463.0km²
- Kasperivtsi Reservoirkm 1901.8km²
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Mountains at the source (1)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Mount Menych14 km away405m
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
Seret in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
DniesterUkraine1,352 km310 m³/sTributaries (19)
Also: Hnizna, Tupa, Bridok, Dovzhanka, Cherkaska, Bila (tributary of Seret), Hrabarka, Werchowynka, Seret Pravyi, Hnyda, Nesterivka, Nishla, Seret Livyi, Smoljanka, Khromova, Mlynka, Tiukha, Pereima (river), Vovchkiv
MoldovaNearby
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Ukraine247 km230 m³/s47 km awayCheremosh RiverUkraine80 km27 m³/s32 km awaySmotrych RiverUkraine168 km4.0 m³/s58 km awaySuceava River
Romania160 km20 m³/s133 km awayStryi RiverUkraine232 km45 m³/s146 km awayIza RiverRomania80 km17 m³/s167 km awayMoldova RiverRomania205 km32 m³/s208 km awaySomeșul MicRomania80 km21 m³/s219 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1421605) · 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, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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