River
Snov
253 km from source to mouth · Ukraine and Russia.
Ukraine and RussiaFlows into Desna
In numbers
Length
253km
Average flow
24m³/s
Basin
8,700km²
Drop
50m
from 155 m to 105 m
Countries
2
The journey
From source to mouth
253 km of river and 8 stops on the way: 1 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmBryansk Oblastat 155 m
- 72 kmIrpatributary
- 100 kmSlottributary
- 105 kmRevnatributary
- 110 kmTrubëzhtributary
- 148 kmTetyvatributary
- 175 kmBrechtributary
- 176 kmSnovsk10,620 people
- 196 kmSmiachtributary
- 253 kmDesnaat 105 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Russia and Ukraine
At the mouth it carries 24 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 104 seconds. It drops from 155 m to 105 m, 0.2 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 8,700 km², about the size of PR. 144,000 people live in it. Highest water: from April to June; lowest: from December to March. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- SnovskLargest city on its banks · 10,620 people
- Gomel Airport (GME)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 101 km from the cityCar hire at KBP airport (Boryspil)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Snov, month by month
Highest water: from April to June
Lowest water: from December to March. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from January to February. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 15 m³/s in the lowest month to 82 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
Snov: the basin in numbers
8,265 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 144,000people live in the basin
- 17/km²people per km²
- 152maverage altitude of the basin
- 596mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 6.6°Caverage air temperature
- 3%protected areas
- 0.1%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 28% Forest
- 43% Cropland
- 14% Pasture
- 1% 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
Snov: what you find on the way
- 3Weirs
- 2River beaches
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.8 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
Snov in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
DesnaUkraine1,130 km360 m³/sTributaries (17)
Also: Revna, Tetyva, Brech, Kriukiv, Smiach, Slot, Tsata, Turchanka, Yelinka, Stratyva, Mostyshche, Irpa, Trubëzh, Titva, Domna, Bihach, Klyus
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Ukraine775 km460 m³/s81 km awaySeymUkraine696 km100 m³/s71 km awaySozh
Belarus648 km210 m³/s68 km awayTeterivUkraine385 km18 m³/s103 km awayOster RiverUkraine199 km3.2 m³/s84 km awayUzhUkraine256 km520 m³/s91 km awayIputBelarus437 km83 m³/s106 km awayBerezinaBelarus613 km140 m³/s143 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1540215) · 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 |
Every source and licence is on the data sources page.
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