River
Ybbs
130 km from source to mouth · Austria.
AustriaFlows into Danube5th longest in Austria
In numbers
Length
130km
Average flow
300m³/s
Basin
1,300km²
Drop
405m
from 618 m to 213 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
130 km of river and 28 stops on the way: 25 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 618 m
- 9 kmLunzer See0.5 km²
- 9 kmLunz am See1,806 people
- 28 kmpipeline bridge near St. Georgen am Reith
- 56 kmOpponitz power station
- 66 kmZell-Arzberg1,536 people
- 67 kmWindhag1,748 people
- 68 kmZell-Markt1,119 people
- 68 kmWaidhofen an der Ybbs3,811 people
- 75 kmRosenau am Sonntagberg1,213 people
- 76 kmBiberbach2,270 people
- 79 kmKematen an der Ybbs2,625 people
- 84 kmAschbach Markt1,703 people
- 86 kmHausmening2,043 people
- 87 kmNeufurth1,667 people
- 89 kmMauer bei Amstetten2,278 people
- 89 kmOehling1,200 people
- 90 kmNeuhofen an der Ybbs1,054 people
- 91 kmWinklarn1,323 people
- 93 kmGreinsfurth1,185 people
- 95 kmAmstetten15,559 people
- 102 kmEuratsfeld2,639 people
- 105 kmSankt Georgen am Ybbsfelde1,338 people
- 106 kmFerschnitz1,770 people
- 108 kmBlindenmarkt2,712 people
- 115 kmNeumarkt an der Ybbs1,207 people
- 120 kmYbbs an der Donau4,310 people
- 121 kmPersenbeug1,303 people
- 130 kmKrumnussbaum1,135 people
- 130 kmDanubeat 213 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Lower Austria, tributary of Danube
At the mouth it carries 302 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 8.3 seconds. It drops from 618 m to 213 m, 3.1 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 1,300 km², about the size of MQ. 12.4 million people live in it. Highest water: from April to May; lowest: from December to February. Its dams hold back little of its water (3.5% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- AmstettenLargest city on its banks · 15,559 people
- Linz-Hörsching Airport (LNZ)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 52 km from the cityCar hire at LNZ airport (Linz)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water12 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Ybbs, month by month
Highest water: from April to May
Lowest water: from December to February. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 1,100 m³/s in the lowest month to 2,400 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
Ybbs: the basin in numbers
93,521 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 12.4millionpeople live in the basin
- 134/km²people per km²
- 833maverage altitude of the basin
- 996mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 6.4°Caverage air temperature
- 26%protected areas
- 0.6%covered by lakes
- 1%permafrost
- 2.0km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 57% Forest
- 22% Cropland
- 21% Pasture
- 6% 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
Ybbs: what you find on the way
- 97WeirsWüster and 96 more
- 7LocksDonau and 6 more
- 4WaterfallsSchleierfall, Kogelfall, Kogler wasserfall and 1 more
- 9Boat ramps
- 2MarinasCampingplatz Marbacher Freizeitzentrum & Sportboothafen
- 2River beachesDreier
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.4 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
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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.
1lake on its wayLakeyas
56mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Lunzer Seekm 80.5km²
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Mountains at the source (56)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Ötscher11 km away1,893m
- Dürrenstein11 km away · prominence 809 m1,878m
- Hochstadl13 km away · prominence 1,072 m1,919m
- Ringkamp14 km away2,153m
- Kräuterin13 km away · prominence 1,072 m1,919m
- Hohe Weichsel14 km away2,006m
- Krautgartenkogel14 km away1,988m
- Mittelkuppe15 km away1,982m
48 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
Ybbs in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Danube
Romania2,850 km5,400 m³/sTributaries (6)
Also: Kleine Ybbs, Url, Hammerbach, Steinbach, Seebach, Zauchbach
Serbia
Croatia
Germany
MoldovaNearby
Rivers nearby
CzechiaWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q258588) · 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 | Lakeyas, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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