River
Volturno
175 km from source to mouth · Italy.
ItalyFlows into Tyrrhenian Sea
In numbers
Length
175km
Average flow
82m³/s
Basin
5,550km²
Drop
356m
from 353 m to -3 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
175 km of river and 19 stops on the way: 16 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmApenninesat 353 m
- 4 kmRocchetta a Volturno1,083 people
- 20 kmTaverna Ravindola1,125 people
- 62 kmBaia1,145 people
- 70 kmDragoni2,108 people
- 72 kmSan Giorgio1,496 people
- 77 kmFiumi Volturno e Calore Beneventano
- 93 kmAmorosi2,218 people
- 95 kmCalore Irpinotributary
- 103 kmDugenta1,201 people
- 107 kmLimatola2,668 people
- 112 kmPiana di Monte Verna1,386 people
- 118 kmIsclerotributary
- 128 kmSant'Angelo in Formis2,616 people
- 130 kmCapua15,438 people
- 144 kmSanta Maria la Fossa2,397 people
- 147 kmGrazzanise5,378 people
- 148 kmBrezza1,041 people
- 160 kmCancello-Arnone4,256 people
- 173 kmCastel Volturno21,881 people
- 175 kmTyrrhenian Seaat -3 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Italy
At the mouth it carries 82 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 30 seconds. It drops from 353 m to -3 m, 2.0 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 5,550 km², about the size of BN. 852,000 people live in it. Highest water: from December to January; lowest: from June to September. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- Castel VolturnoLargest city on its banks · 21,881 people
- Naples International Airport (NAP)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 33 km from the cityCar hire at NAP airport (Napoli)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Volturno, month by month
Highest water: from December to January
Lowest water: from June to September. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 20 m³/s in the lowest month to 190 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
Volturno: the basin in numbers
5,784 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 852,000people live in the basin
- 147/km²people per km²
- 493maverage altitude of the basin
- 757mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 13.2°Caverage air temperature
- 12%protected areas
What covers the basin
- 35% Forest
- 44% Cropland
- 20% 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
Volturno: what you find on the way
- 9Weirs
- 3WaterfallsCascate Del Volturno
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.7 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Volturno 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.
9beaches at the mouth and on the banksCoastya
17mountains at the sourcePeakyas
3islands off the mouthIslandyas
Beaches (9)
At the mouth (25 km) and on the banks, by Coastya
- S.L.O Rodolfo beach4.0 km away26.0°C
- Lido di Liccola18 km away26.0°C
- Marina di Varcaturo16 km away26.0°C
- Sohal Beach25 km away26.0°C
- Spiaggia di Mondragone11 km away25.9°C
- Spiaggia di Pineta Riviera7.1 km away25.9°C
- Spiaggia Villaggio Coppola7.6 km away26.0°C
- Spiaggia di Baia Azzurra-Levagnole15 km away25.9°C
1 more on CoastyaOpen Coastya ↗
Mountains at the source (17)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Monti della Meta14 km away2,249m
- Monte Meta13 km away · prominence 211 m2,241m
- Monte Mare6.4 km away · prominence 220 m2,020m
- Monte Forcellone10 km away
- Monte Passero13 km away
- Monna Casale11 km away
- Colle dell'Arena12 km away
- Monte Cavallo8.6 km away
9 more on PeakyasOpen Peakyas ↗
Islands off the mouth (3)
Within 30 km of the mouth, by Islandyas
- Il Fungo30 km away
- Pennata29 km away
- Isolotto di San Martino26 km away
Islandyas is coming soonOpen Islandyas ↗
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
Volturno in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (4)
Also: Calore Irpino, Isclero, Lete, Titerno
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q572191) · 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 | Coastya, Peakyas, Islandyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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