River
Strumica
114 km from source to mouth · Bulgaria and North Macedonia.
Bulgaria and North MacedoniaFlows into Struma7th longest in Bulgaria
In numbers
Length
114km
Average flow
100m³/s
Basin
1,895km²
Drop
230m
from 317 m to 87 m
Countries
2
The journey
From source to mouth
114 km of river and 8 stops on the way: 8 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmPlačkovicaat 317 m
- 31 kmVasilevo12,382 people
- 41 kmBosilovo12,447 people
- 42 kmMurtino2,202 people
- 44 kmMonospitovo1,324 people
- 50 kmSekirnik1,222 people
- 53 kmSušica1,941 people
- 60 kmNovo Selo11,818 people
- 109 kmRupite1,037 people
- 114 kmStrumaat 87 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in North Macedonia and Bulgaria
At the mouth it carries 105 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 24 seconds. It drops from 317 m to 87 m, 2.0 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 1,895 km², about the size of GP. 147,000 people live in it. Highest water: from December to January; lowest: from August to September. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (27% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- BosilovoLargest city on its banks · 12,447 people
- Thessaloniki Macedonia International Airport (SKG)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 104 km from the cityCar hire at SKG airport (Thessaloniki)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Strumica, month by month
Highest water: from December to January
Lowest water: from August to September. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 3.5 m³/s in the lowest month to 24 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
Strumica: the basin in numbers
1,938 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 147,000people live in the basin
- 76/km²people per km²
- 637maverage altitude of the basin
- 503mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 11.2°Caverage air temperature
- 7%protected areas
- 0.1%covered by lakes
- 0.1km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 41% Forest
- 20% Cropland
- 33% 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
Strumica: what you find on the way
- 3Weirs
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.4 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Strumica 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.
10mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (10)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Goten Mountain13 km away1,420m
- Adzhi Chuka9.9 km away1,298m
- Smrdeš9.9 km away971m
- Amzova Chukara11 km away864m
- Vela Glava10 km away705m
- Airnitsa13 km away547m
- Padini6.5 km away
- Šturov Rid12 km away
2 more on PeakyasOpen Peakyas ↗
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
Strumica in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Struma
Greece415 km80 m³/sNearby
Rivers nearby
Greece97 km20 m³/s67 km awayVardarGreece388 km180 m³/s115 km awayCrnaNorth Macedonia207 km37 m³/s106 km awayHaliacmonGreece297 km56 m³/s120 km awayBregalnicaNorth Macedonia225 km28 m³/s114 km awayNestosGreece230 km40 m³/s144 km awayPčinjaNorth Macedonia128 km14 m³/s139 km awayPineiosGreece216 km67 m³/s180 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q149214) · 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 | Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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