River
Timok
189 km from source to mouth · Romania, Bulgaria and Serbia.
Romania, Bulgaria and SerbiaFlows into Danube
In numbers
Length
189km
Average flow
40m³/s
Basin
4,666km²
Drop
303m
from 338 m to 35 m
Countries
3
The journey
From source to mouth
189 km of river and 4 stops on the way: 2 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 338 m
- 87 kmZaječar49,800 people
- 94 kmCrni Timoktributary
- 94 kmBeli Timoktributary
- 175 kmBregovo2,892 people
- 189 kmDanubeat 35 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Serbia and Bulgaria
At the mouth it carries 40 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 62 seconds. It drops from 338 m to 35 m, 1.6 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 4,666 km², about the size of TT. 201,000 people live in it. Highest water: February. Its dams hold back little of its water (2.2% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- ZaječarLargest city on its banks · 49,800 people
- Niš Constantine the Great Airport (INI)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 71 km from the cityCar hire at INI airport (Niš)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Timok, month by month
Highest water: February
Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 6.4 m³/s in the lowest month to 48 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
Timok: the basin in numbers
4,926 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 201,000people live in the basin
- 41/km²people per km²
- 465maverage altitude of the basin
- 661mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 9.6°Caverage air temperature
- 10%protected areas
- 0.1%covered by lakes
- 0.0km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 46% Forest
- 29% Cropland
- 23% Pasture
- 1% 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
Timok: what you find on the way
- 2Weirs
- 1Locks
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.6 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Timok 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.
6mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (6)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Vrashka Chuka11 km away692m
- Bratujevac13 km away402m
- Zlatija8.8 km away
- Kopita12 km away
- Komora14 km away
- Ðurino Brdo11 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.
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
DanubeRomania2,850 km5,400 m³/sTributaries (2)
Also: Crni Timok, Beli Timok
Croatia
Germany
Moldova
AustriaNearby
Rivers nearby
Romania331 km94 m³/s103 km awayWest MoravaSerbia308 km120 m³/s117 km awaySouth MoravaSerbia295 km100 m³/s117 km awayNišavaSerbia218 km100 m³/s115 km awayGreat MoravaSerbia185 km230 m³/s142 km awayIskarBulgaria368 km54 m³/s151 km awaySavaSerbia945 km1,700 m³/s189 km awayOlt RiverRomania615 km170 m³/s180 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q753919) · 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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