River
Tauber
131 km from source to mouth · Germany.
GermanyFlows into Main
In numbers
Length
131km
Average flow
150m³/s
Basin
1,810km²
Drop
235m
from 371 m to 136 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
131 km of river and 38 stops on the way: 19 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmRot am Seeat 371 m
- 0 kmBestleinsmühle13 people
- 0 kmGebsattel1,826 people
- 1 kmNeusitz1,990 people
- 4 kmEselsbrücke
- 4 kmRothenburg ob der Tauber11,331 people
- 7 kmDetwang186 people
- 28 kmCreglingen4,828 people
- 40 kmRöttingen1,679 people
- 45 kmTauberrettersheim799 people
- 50 kmEisenbahnbrücke Schäftersheim
- 52 kmWeikersheim7,569 people
- 53 kmEisenbahnbrücke Weikersheim
- 57 kmVorbachtributary
- 63 kmIgersheim5,700 people
- 66 kmEisenbahnbrücke Bad Mergentheim
- 66 kmBad Mergentheim22,472 people
- 77 kmBalbachtributary
- 77 kmUmpfertributary
- 81 kmLauda-Königshofen14,150 people
- 82 kmGerlachsheim1,711 people
- 82 kmEisenbahnbrücke Lauda
- 82 kmGrünbachtributary
- 86 kmTaubertalbrücke
- 89 kmTauberbischofsheim footbridge
- 89 kmTauberbischofsheim13,341 people
- 90 kmTauberbrücke
- 97 kmHistorische Tauberbrücke Hochhausen
- 97 kmWerbach3,589 people
- 105 kmEisenbahnbrücke Gamburg
- 114 kmEisenbahnbrücke Bronnbach
- 118 kmTauberbrücke Reicholzheim
- 118 kmReicholzheim1,260 people
- 124 kmEisenbahn-Tauberbrücke Wertheim
- 125 kmWelzbachtributary
- 125 kmWertheim3,086 people
- 125 kmOdenwaldbrücke
- 126 kmKreuzwertheim3,862 people
- 130 kmHasloch1,414 people
- 131 kmMainat 136 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Germany
At the mouth it carries 151 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 17 seconds. It drops from 371 m to 136 m, 1.8 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 1,810 km², about the size of GP. 3.5 million people live in it. Highest water: February and April. Its dams hold back little of its water (3.4% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- Bad MergentheimLargest city on its banks · 22,472 people
- Mannheim-City Airport (MHG)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 91 km from the cityCar hire at NUE airport (Nuremberg)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water4 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- Kayak and canoe11 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Tauber, month by month
Highest water: February and April
Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 58 m³/s in the lowest month to 330 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
Tauber: the basin in numbers
20,581 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 3.5millionpeople live in the basin
- 172/km²people per km²
- 379maverage altitude of the basin
- 678mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 8.2°Caverage air temperature
- 36%protected areas
- 0.1%covered by lakes
- 0.2km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 29% Forest
- 34% Cropland
- 10% Pasture
- 8% 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
Tauber: what you find on the way
- 57Weirsehemaliges Mühlwehr, Mühlkanalwehr, Hochwasserschutztor and 54 more
- 2LocksMain
- 2WaterfallsMaisenbach
- 11Canoe put-insLauda, Distelhausen, Distelhausen an der Brücke and 8 more
- 3Boat rampsDrescher Bootsvermietung
- 1MarinasSportboothafen
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.0 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Tauber 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.
55mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (55)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Birkenberg5.3 km away · prominence 53 m547m
- Hornberg4.9 km away · prominence 71 m554m
- Wölfleinsberg6.7 km away545m
- Kesselberg8.7 km away538m
- Kellerberg11 km away534m
- Wühlberg8.5 km away531m
- Klosterberg14 km away531m
- Vetschenberg11 km away530m
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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
Tauber in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
MainGermany524 km200 m³/sTributaries (21)
Also: Umpfer, Wachbach, Gollach, Vorbach, Schandtauber, Herrgottsbach, Amorsbach, Grünbach, Brehmbach, Vorbach, Maisenbach, Schönertsbach, Rohrbach, Balbach, Lochbach (Tauber), Aschbach, Welzbach, Fahrentalsgraben, Rindbach, Schleifgraben, Limbachsgraben
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Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q177480) · 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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