River
Yarmuk
57 km from source to mouth · Israel, Jordan and Syria.
Israel, Jordan and SyriaFlows into Jordan River2nd longest in Israel
In numbers
Length
57km
Average flow
2.6m³/s
Basin
7,000km²
Drop
629m
from 392 m to -237 m
Countries
3
The journey
From source to mouth
57 km of river and 5 stops on the way: 2 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 392 m
- 15 kmNahr al-Allantributary
- 17 kmAl-Wehda Dam
- 30 kmRuqqadtributary
- 55 kmAshdot Ya‘aqov Iẖud1,003 people
- 57 kmMenaẖemya1,033 people
- 57 kmJordan Riverat -237 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Syria, Jordan, and Israel
At the mouth it carries 2.6 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 962 seconds. It drops from 392 m to -237 m, 11 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 7,000 km², about the size of PS. 2.0 million people live in it. Highest water: February; lowest: from July to October. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- MenaẖemyaLargest city on its banks · 1,033 people
- Uri Michaeli Haifa International Airport (HFA)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 50 km from the cityCar hire at ADJ airport (Amman)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From March to May and from October to NovemberThe best months to visit
Yarmuk, month by month
Highest water: February
Lowest water: from July to October. Best months to visit: from March to May and from October to November.
From about 2.3 m³/s in the lowest month to 35 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.
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The basin
Yarmuk: the basin in numbers
6,989 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 2.0millionpeople live in the basin
- 287/km²people per km²
- 713maverage altitude of the basin
- 319mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 16.8°Caverage air temperature
- 0.2%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 5% Forest
- 51% Cropland
- 18% Pasture
- 11% 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
Yarmuk: what you find on the way
- 3WaterfallsMetsar waterfall
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.7 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Yarmuk 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.
17mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (17)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Tell Arar13 km away
- Z̧ahrat al Ḩuwayshah1.2 km away
- Z̧ahrat as Sūq al Janūbīyah14 km away
- Z̧ahrat aţ Ţawāḩīn2.1 km away
- Z̧ahrat Umm al Hawá al Janūbīyah13 km away
- Z̧ahrat Umm al Hawá ash Shamālīyah12 km away
- Tall ar Rujm al Abyaḑ12 km away
- Tall ar Ruqqah aţ Ţawīlah13 km away
9 more on PeakyasOpen Peakyas ↗
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
Yarmuk in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Jordan RiverJordan252 km52 m³/sTributaries (2)
Also: Ruqqad, Nahr al-Allan
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Jordan65 km6.5 m³/s59 km awayKishon RiverIsrael70 km7.6 m³/s54 km awayLitani River
Lebanon140 km23 m³/s83 km awayHasbani RiverLebanon65 km5.0 m³/s62 km awayYarkon RiverIsrael28 km12 m³/s96 km awayBaradaSyria71 km7.3 m³/s132 km awayWadi MujibJordan72 km3.8 m³/s132 km awayWadi Auja
Palestine208 km47 m³/s84 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q849470) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed along the river network from the point 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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