List of rivers of Hungary explained

Some of the Rivers of Hungary include:

Rivers by length

(> 100 km, only the length in Hungary)

Tisza - 597 km - 62,06% of total length
Danube (Duna) - 417 km – 14,60% of total length
Körös - 217.5 km
1. triple Körös (Hármas-Körös) - 91.3 km – 100% of total length
2. double Körös (Kettős-Körös) - 37.3 km – 100% of total length
  1. Crișul Negru (Fekete-Körös) - 20.5 km – 12.20% of total length
  2. Crișul Alb (Fehér-Körös) - 9.8 km – 4.16% of total length
3. Crișul Repede (Sebes-Körös) - 58.6 km – 28.04% of total length
Rába - 188 km – 66,43% of total length
Zagyva - 179 km – 100% of total length
Hortobágy-Berettyó - 167.3 km – 100% of total length
Drava (Dráva) - 166.8 km – 22,27% of total length
Ipeľ (Ipoly) - 143 km – 61.51% of total length
Zala - 126 km – 100% of total length
Sajó - 125.1 km – 56.10% of total length
Répce and Rábca together - 123.7 km
Hornád (Hernád) - 118 km – 41.26% of total length
Kapos - 112.7 km – 100% of total length
Tarna - 105 km – 100% of total length
Marcal - 100.4 km – 100% of total length

Rivers by drainage area

(> 1000 km², only the area in Hungary)

Danube (Duna) - 93,030 km² – 11,7% of total basin

Rába -
- Marcal - 3,033 km² – 100% of total basin
Ipeľ (Ipoly) - 1,518 km² – 29.72% of total basin
Sió - 14,953 km² – 100% of total basin
- Kapos - 3,170 km² – 100% of total basin
Drava (Dráva) - 8,215.22 km² – 19% of total basin
Tisza - 46,000 km² – 29,27% of total basin
- Sajó - 5,545 km² – 43,63% of total basin
  - Hornád (Hernád) - 1,136 km² – 20,90% of total basin
- Zagyva - 5,677 km² – 100% of total basin
  - Tarna - 2,116 km² – 100% of total basin
- Körös - 12,942.39 km² – 47% of total basin

Balaton from (Zala river and others) – 5,181 km²

Rivers by average discharge

(> 10 m³/s, this list includes not only in Hungary)

Danube (Duna) - 6855 m³/s – in Budapest 2350 m³/s
Tisza - 820 m³/s
Drava (Dráva) - 670 m³/s
Mureș (Maros) - 184 m³/s
Mur (Mura) - 166 m³/s
Bodrog - 115 m³/s
Someș (Szamos) - 114 m³/s
Körös (Hármas-Körös) - 100 m³/s
Sajó - 60 m³/s
Sió - 39 m³/s
Hornád (Hernád) - 30.9 m³/s
Crișul Repede (Sebes-Körös) - 25.4 m³/s
Rába - 18 m³/s

Rivers by orography

Rivers that flow into other rivers are sorted by the proximity of their points of confluence to the sea (the lower in the list, the more upstream).

Black Sea

The rivers in this section are sorted north-west (Austria) to south (Croatia-Serbia).

Danube/Duna (main branch at Sulina, Romania)
- Mosoni-Duna - branch of Danube
  - Leitha/Lajta (in Mosonmagyaróvár) R
  - Rábca (near Győr) R
  - Rába (in Győr) R
    - Marcal (near Gyirmót) R
    - Pinka (near Körmend) L
    - Lafnitz/Lapincs (near Szentgotthárd) L
- Concó (near Ács) R
- Által-ér (in Dunaalmás) R
- Ipeľ/Ipoly (near Szob) L
- Kiskunsági main channel (near Tass) L
- Sió (in Gemenc Forest) R
  - Sárvíz (in Sióagárd) L
    - Séd (in Cece) R
  - Kapos (near Tolnanémeti) R
- Sugovica (in Baja) L
- Drava/Dráva (near Osijek, Croatia) R
  - Mur/Mura (near Legrad, Croatia) L
    - Big Krka/Kerka (near Muraszemenye) L
      - Ledava/Ledva (near Muraszemenye) R
      - Cserta (near Kerkateskánd) L
        Lower Válicka/Alsó-Valicka (near Páka) L
- Tisza (near Titel, Serbia) L
  - Túr (near Szatmárcseke) L
  - Someș/Szamos (near Vásárosnamény) L
  - Crasna/Kraszna (in Vásárosnamény) L
  - Bodrog (in Tokaj) R
    - Roňava/Ronyva (near Sátoraljaújhely) R
  - Keleti main channel (near Tiszalök) L
  - Sajó (near Tiszaújváros) R
    - Takta (near Kesznyéten) L
    - Hornád/Hernád (near Sajóhídvég) L
    - Szinva (in Miskolc) R
    - Bódva (near Boldva) L
  - Zagyva (in Szolnok) R
    - Tarna (near Jászjákóhalma) L
    - Galga (near Jászfényszaru) R
  - Hármas-Körös (in Csongrád) L
    - Hortobágy-Berettyó (near Mezőtúr) R
    - Crișul Repede/Sebes-Körös (near Körösladány) R
      - Barcău/Berettyó (near Szeghalom) R
  - Kettős-Körös (continuation of Hármas-Körös)
    - Crișul Negru/Fekete-Körös (near Gyula)
    - Crișul Alb/Fehér-Körös (near Gyula)
  - Mureș/Maros (near Szeged) L

Lake Balaton

The rivers in this section are sorted north-west to south-west.

Zala (near Balatonszentgyörgy)
- Upper Válicka/Felső-Valicka (near Zalaegerszeg) R

Alphabetical list

Berettyó, Bodrog, Bodva, Dráva/Drava, Hernád, Fehér-Körös, Fekete-Körös, Ipoly, Kígyós/Plazović, Körös, Körös-ér, Kraszna, Lajta/Leitha, Maros, Mura/Mur, Pinka, Rába/Raab, Sajó, Sebes-Körös, Séd, Sió, Sugovica, Szamos, Szinva, Tisza, Zagyva, Zala, Válicka