River
Surxondaryo
175 km from source to mouth · Uzbekistan.
UzbekistanFlows into Amu Darya8th longest in Uzbekistan
In numbers
Length
175km
Average flow
66m³/s
Basin
13,500km²
Drop
228m
from 518 m to 290 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
175 km of river and 5 stops on the way: 1 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 518 m
- 7 kmKaratagtributary
- 9 kmTupalangdaryatributary
- 24 kmSangardakdaryotributary
- 80 kmSouth Surxon Reservoir30 km²
- 170 kmTirmiz182,800 people
- 175 kmAmu Daryaat 290 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Uzbekistan
At the mouth it carries 66 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 38 seconds. It drops from 518 m to 290 m, 1.3 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 13,500 km², about the size of BS. 11.1 million people live in it. Highest water: from March to April; lowest: from August to November. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (17% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- TirmizLargest city on its banks · 182,800 people
- Termez Airport (TMJ)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 8 km from the cityCar hire in SamarkandDiscover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water1 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From April to May and from September to OctoberThe best months to visit
Surxondaryo, month by month
Highest water: from March to April
Lowest water: from August to November. Best months to visit: from April to May and from September to October.
From about 430 m³/s in the lowest month to 5,700 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
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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The basin
Surxondaryo: the basin in numbers
224,842 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 11.1millionpeople live in the basin
- 49/km²people per km²
- 2,855maverage altitude of the basin
- 552mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 3.7°Caverage air temperature
- 11%protected areas
- 0.2%covered by lakes
- 2%glaciers
- 24%permafrost
- 11km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 1% Forest
- 10% Cropland
- 37% Pasture
- 1% Towns and cities
- 2% Ice
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
Surxondaryo: what you find on the way
- 1Ferry piersTermiz porti
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.6 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Surxondaryo 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.
1lake on its wayLakeyas
Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- South Surxon Reservoirkm 7630km²
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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
Surxondaryo in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Amu DaryaUzbekistan2,620 km1,400 m³/sTributaries (3)
Also: Karatag, Tupalangdarya, Sangardakdaryo
In the same basin
Tajikistan921 km1,000 m³/sVakhsh RiverTajikistan524 km160 m³/sZeravshanUzbekistan877 km160 m³/sBartang RiverTajikistan528 km130 m³/sKokcha River
Afghanistan360 km180 m³/sQashqadaryo RiverUzbekistan378 km25 m³/sKofarnihon RiverTajikistan387 km160 m³/sGunt RiverTajikistan296 km100 m³/sPamir RiverAfghanistan118 km13 m³/sKunduz RiverAfghanistan420 km160 m³/sNearby
Rivers nearby
Tajikistan921 km1,000 m³/s91 km awayVakhsh RiverTajikistan524 km160 m³/s91 km awayKofarnihon RiverTajikistan387 km160 m³/s66 km awayKunduz RiverAfghanistan420 km160 m³/s86 km awayKokcha RiverAfghanistan360 km180 m³/s185 km awayQashqadaryo RiverUzbekistan378 km25 m³/s311 km awayZeravshanUzbekistan877 km160 m³/s398 km awayBartang RiverTajikistan528 km130 m³/s385 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1032654) · 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 — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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