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Svitava

98 km from source to mouth · Czechia.

CzechiaCzechiaFlows into Svratka

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SourceMouthBrno
The river and every tributary in its basin, drawn from RiverATLAS (CC BY 4.0).

In numbers

Length

98km

Average flow

5.2m³/s

Basin

1,149km²

Drop

228m

from 415 m to 187 m

Country

1

The journey

From source to mouth

98 km of river and 50 stops on the way: 26 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.

415 m187 m
Sourceat 415 m0 km
Březová nad Svitavou1,518 people12 km
Vodní nádrž Letovice0.8 km²26 km
Křetínkatributary34 km
Úmořítributary41 km
Rájec-Jestřebí3,736 people50 km
Blansko20,002 people56 km
Pytlácký vodopád65 km
Obřany Weir80 km
Brno402,739 people87 km
Svratkaat 187 m98 km
02040608098 km
  1. 0 kmSourceat 415 m
  2. 0 kmHradec nad Svitavou1,584 people
  3. 12 kmBřezová nad Svitavou1,518 people
  4. 15 kmBrněnec1,405 people
  5. 26 kmVodní nádrž Letovice0.8 km²
  6. 27 kmLetovice7,124 people
  7. 34 kmSvitávka1,700 people
  8. 34 kmKřetínkatributary
  9. 36 kmSemíčtributary
  10. 41 kmÚmořítributary
  11. 46 kmDoubravice nad Svitavou1,333 people
  12. 50 kmRájec-Jestřebí3,736 people
  13. 52 kmRáječko1,367 people
  14. 56 kmBlansko20,002 people
  15. 57 kmJežek's railway siding bridge
  16. 59 kmPunkvatributary
  17. 65 kmPytlácký vodopád
  18. 67 kmAdamov4,564 people
  19. 71 kmBabice nad Svitavou1,462 people
  20. 76 kmBílovice nad Svitavou3,725 people
  21. 79 kmrailway bridge over the Svitava and Mlýnské nábřeží in Brno
  22. 80 kmMakovského lávka
  23. 80 kmrailway bridge in Obřany
  24. 80 kmObřany Weir
  25. 80 kmObřanský most
  26. 80 kmObřany3,014 people
  27. 81 kmLávka Simony Monyové
  28. 81 kmCacovice Weir
  29. 81 kmBrno-Maloměřice a Obřany6,376 people
  30. 81 kmfootbridge over the Svitava near Olší street
  31. 81 kmMaloměřice II Weir
  32. 82 kmMaloměřice3,363 people
  33. 82 kmBaganka footbridge
  34. 82 kmMaloměřice Weir
  35. 82 kmMaloměřický most
  36. 82 kmVinohrady11,202 people
  37. 83 kmHusovický most
  38. 83 kmpipeline bridge over the Svitava in Husovice
  39. 84 kmHusovice6,915 people
  40. 84 kmHusovice Weir
  41. 84 kmZábrdovický most
  42. 85 kmRadlas Weir
  43. 85 kmŽidenice18,920 people
  44. 87 kmBrno402,739 people
  45. 87 kmBrno střed86,685 people
  46. 88 kmČernovice6,692 people
  47. 89 kmBrno-jih7,594 people
  48. 93 kmTuřany5,084 people
  49. 96 kmChrlice3,121 people
  50. 97 kmModřice5,755 people
  51. 98 kmRebešovice1,092 people
  52. 98 kmSvratkaat 187 m

Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.

River in the Czech Republic

At the mouth it carries 5.2 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 479 seconds. It drops from 415 m to 187 m, 2.3 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 1,149 km², about the size of MQ. 619,000 people live in it. Highest water: March; lowest: from December to February. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (16% of a year's flow).

Read more on Wikipedia

Where to start

  • BrnoLargest city on its banks · 402,739 people
  • Brno-Tuřany Airport (BRQ)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 8 km from the cityCar hire at BRQ airport (Brno)Discover Cars · Affiliate link
  • On the water2 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

Svitava, month by month

Highest water: March

Lowest water: from December to February. Best months to visit: from May to September.

9.6
-2°26 mmJan
7.9
0°24 mmFeb
42
4°27 mmMar
31
9°35 mmApr
29
13°63 mmMay
30
16°78 mmJun
30
18°74 mmJul
28
18°65 mmAug
23
14°44 mmSep
20
9°34 mmOct
23
4°39 mmNov
14
-1°30 mmDec
Water (estimated flow)Air (average) Rain (mm)Best months

From about 7.9 m³/s in the lowest month to 42 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

Svitava: the basin in numbers

2,935 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.

Heavily regulatedReservoirs can hold 16% of a year's flow: dams shape its seasons.
  • 619,000people live in the basin
  • 211/km²people per km²
  • 499maverage altitude of the basin
  • 621mmof rain a year (basin average)
  • 7.2°Caverage air temperature
  • 14%protected areas
  • 0.2%covered by lakes
  • 0.1km³held in reservoirs

What covers the basin

  • 40% Forest
  • 37% Cropland
  • 9% Pasture
  • 9% 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

Svitava: what you find on the way

  • 11Damsvodní dílo Letovice, bezpečnostní přeliv and 9 more
  • 57Weirsjez Obřany, jez Cacovice, jez Maloměřice II and 54 more
  • 1Waterfalls
  • 1Rapids
  • 2Marinas

From OpenStreetMap, within 1.5 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.

Cross-checked with our atlases

Svitava 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.

  • 1waterfall on the riverCascadyas
  • 1lake on its wayLakeyas
  • 26mountains at the sourcePeakyas

Waterfalls (1)

On the river, by Cascadyas

  1. Pytlácký vodopádkm 53

Cascadyas is coming soonOpen Cascadyas ↗

Lakes and reservoirs (1)

Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas

  1. Vodní nádrž Letovicekm 210.8km²

Lakeyas is coming soonOpen Lakeyas ↗

Mountains at the source (26)

Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas

  1. Drašarov12 km away687m
  2. Mladějovský vrch11 km away648m
  3. Palice15 km away · prominence 175 m613m
  4. Hřebcov11 km away636m
  5. Roh13 km away · prominence 208 m661m
  6. Hřebečov11 km away623m
  7. Kozlovský kopec10 km away604m
  8. Velký vrch14 km away604m

18 more on PeakyasOpen Peakyas ↗

From space

The source and the mouth, seen from orbit

Svitava: satellite view of the source
The source14 km across
Svitava: satellite view of the mouth
The mouth10 km across

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

Svitava in pictures

Svitava mezi Bílovicemi a Brnem
Dezidor · CC BY 3.0
Svitava v Brně, ulice Olomoucká
Phoenix CZE · CC BY-SA 4.0

Tributaries

Where it flows, and what flows into it

It flows into

SvratkaCzechiaCzechia174 km27 m³/s

Tributaries (10)

Also: Punkva, Křetínka, Křtinský potok, Bělá, Úmoří, Semíč, Býkovka, Časnýř, Melatín, Radiměřský potok

In the same basin

DanubeRomaniaRomania2,850 km5,400 m³/sTiszaSerbiaSerbia966 km800 m³/sSavaSerbiaSerbia945 km1,700 m³/sDravaCroatiaCroatia720 km620 m³/sInnGermanyGermany517 km740 m³/sPrutMoldovaMoldova953 km120 m³/sIsarGermanyGermany292 km170 m³/sMoravaAustriaAustria388 km110 m³/sDrinaSerbiaSerbia346 km120 m³/sSiret RiverRomaniaRomania740 km230 m³/s

Nearby

Rivers nearby

MoravaAustriaAustria388 km110 m³/s60 km awayJihlavaCzechiaCzechia181 km12 m³/s24 km awayThayaAustriaAustria235 km52 m³/s60 km awayBečvaCzechiaCzechia62 km18 m³/s61 km awayLeithaHungaryHungary180 km10 m³/s150 km awayYbbsAustriaAustria130 km300 m³/s148 km awayOpavaCzechiaCzechia111 km16 m³/s140 km awayNitraSlovakiaSlovakia197 km24 m³/s166 km away

Where these numbers come from

Name, length, placesWikidata (Q45094) · CC0
Course, profile, basinRiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed from the source to the mouth given by Wikidata
FlowWaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0
Climate along the riverWorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0
Towns, bridges, damsWikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0
Along the river© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Our other atlasesCascadyas, Lakeyas, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST

Every source and licence is on the data sources page.

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