River
Sukhona
558 km from source to mouth · Russia.
RussiaFlows into Northern Dvina
In numbers
Length
558km
Average flow
460m³/s
Basin
50,300km²
Drop
121m
from 109 m to -12 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
558 km of river and 48 stops on the way: 6 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmKubenskoeat 109 m
- 3 kmKubenskoe428 km²
- 11 kmBolshoy Puchkastributary
- 26 kmSokol42,174 people
- 53 kmKekovskoe0.5 km²
- 54 kmVologda Rivertributary
- 54 kmLezhatributary
- 78 kmPelshmatributary
- 108 kmDvinitsatributary
- 115 kmSheybukhtatributary
- 117 kmShuyskoye, Vologda Oblast2,220 people
- 117 kmShuyatributary
- 149 kmVekshengatributary
- 157 kmRetchatributary
- 169 kmShobolgatributary
- 177 kmMolongatributary
- 195 kmShontastributary
- 204 kmTiksnatributary
- 206 kmTolshmatributary
- 234 kmPechengatributary
- 234 kmShakhtyshtributary
- 241 kmUkhtangatributary
- 247 kmTsarevatributary
- 250 kmBolshoy Somboltributary
- 257 kmTot’ma10,500 people
- 257 kmTotma8,647 people
- 260 kmPesya-Dengatributary
- 262 kmEdengatributary
- 264 kmLedengatributary
- 273 kmStaraya Totmatributary
- 282 kmMalaya Norengatributary
- 302 kmBolshaya Pingatributary
- 302 kmMalaya Pingatributary
- 311 kmKirzhengatributary
- 351 kmSalangatributary
- 359 kmBolshaya Gremyachayatributary
- 364 kmUftyugatributary
- 367 kmNyuksenitsa4,322 people
- 377 kmGorodishnatributary
- 394 kmUskalatributary
- 399 kmBolshaya Bobrovkatributary
- 410 kmLevashtributary
- 419 kmLevaya Suchengatributary
- 429 kmYurmengatributary
- 488 kmMyakolitsatributary
- 492 kmMardengatributary
- 494 kmTemtastributary
- 506 kmVozdvizhenkatributary
- 507 kmVelikiy Ustyug32,642 people
- 558 kmNorthern Dvinaat -12 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Vologda Oblast, Russia
At the mouth it carries 456 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 5.5 seconds. It drops from 109 m to -12 m, 0.2 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 50,300 km², about the size of CR. 537,000 people live in it. Highest water, with the snowmelt: 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
- SokolLargest city on its banks · 42,174 people
- Cherepovets Airport (CEE)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 121 km from the city
- On the water20 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From June to AugustThe best months to visit
Sukhona, month by month
Highest water: from April to June
Lowest water: from December to March. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from November to March. Melting snow makes up much of its water. Best months to visit: from June to August.
From about 140 m³/s in the lowest month to 1,700 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
Sukhona: the basin in numbers
47,264 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 537,000people live in the basin
- 11/km²people per km²
- 158maverage altitude of the basin
- 610mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 2.0°Caverage air temperature
- 8%protected areas
- 1.1%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 84% Forest
- 7% Cropland
- 5% Pasture
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
Sukhona: what you find on the way
- 1Weirs
- 2Locks
- 2WaterfallsArinuschka
- 18Ferry piers
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.2 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Sukhona 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.
0waterfalls on the riverCascadyas
2lakes on its wayLakeyas
Waterfalls (0)
On the river, by Cascadyas
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Lakes and reservoirs (2)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Kubenskoekm 4 · 13 m deep428km²
- Kekovskoekm 540.5km²
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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
Sukhona in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Northern DvinaRussia744 km3,500 m³/sTributaries (73)
Also: Vologda River, Lezha, Dvinitsa, Uftyuga, Tolshma, Pechenzhitsa, Verkhnyaya Yorga, Bolshaya Bobrovka, Gorodishna, Ledenga, Bolshoy Sombol, Tiksna, Sheybukhta, Bolshoy Puchkas, Nizhnyaya Yorga, Bolshaya Norenga, Brusenka, Vekshenga, Vozdvizhenka, Edenga, Kirzhenga, Kochevala, Kochenga, Levash
Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q82812) · 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 | Cascadyas, Lakeyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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