River
Timiș River
359 km from source to mouth · Serbia and Romania.
Serbia and RomaniaFlows into Danube3rd longest in Serbia
In numbers
Length
359km
Average flow
47m³/s
Basin
10,280km²
Drop
360m
from 426 m to 66 m
Countries
2
The journey
From source to mouth
359 km of river and 19 stops on the way: 15 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmTrei Apeat 426 m
- 19 kmTeregova4,207 people
- 33 kmSlatina-Timiş3,037 people
- 40 kmBucoşniţa3,025 people
- 56 kmCaransebeş27,521 people
- 69 kmBistra Rivertributary
- 92 kmGavojdia3,122 people
- 108 kmLugoj43,243 people
- 117 kmCoşteiu3,805 people
- 127 kmBelinţ3,023 people
- 140 kmRacoviţa3,260 people
- 169 kmPogăniș Rivertributary
- 191 kmŞag4,461 people
- 202 kmPeciu Nou4,937 people
- 235 kmJaša Tomić3,625 people
- 273 kmBârzava Rivertributary
- 310 kmČenta3,192 people
- 316 kmOpovo4,769 people
- 351 kmPančevo76,654 people
- 354 kmLighthouse on Tamiš Pančevo
- 359 kmDanubeat 66 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
Tributary of Danube, Romania, Serbia
At the mouth it carries 47 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 53 seconds. It drops from 426 m to 66 m, 1.0 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 10,280 km², about the size of LB. 524,000 people live in it. Highest water: February and April. Its dams hold back little of its water (6.9% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- PančevoLargest city on its banks · 76,654 people
- Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport (BEG)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 27 km from the cityCar hire at BEG airport (Belgrade)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water4 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Timiș River, month by month
Highest water: February and April
Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 20 m³/s in the lowest month to 99 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
Timiș River: the basin in numbers
10,495 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 524,000people live in the basin
- 50/km²people per km²
- 277maverage altitude of the basin
- 671mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 10.4°Caverage air temperature
- 2%protected areas
- 0.5%covered by lakes
- 0.1km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 27% Forest
- 48% Cropland
- 22% Pasture
- 2% 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
Timiș River: what you find on the way
- 3Weirs
- 5Locks
- 1Boat ramps
- 2Ferry piers
- 1Marinas
- 4River beachesGradska plaza Mamuze, Nude beach and 2 more
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.8 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Timiș River 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.
1mountain at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (1)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Piatra Gozna6.7 km away
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
Timiș River in pictures




Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
DanubeTributaries (23)
Also: Bârzava River, Bistra River, Pogăniș River, Brebu River, Bolvașnița River, Goleț River, Grădiște River, Sebeș River, Vâna Mare River, Râul Lung, Măcicaș River, Slatina River, Semenic River, Teregova River, Valea Mare River, Iarcoș River, Timișaț Canal, Timișana River, Șurgani River, Știuca River, Lanca Birda River, Nădrag River, Spaia River
Nearby
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Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q214894) · 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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