Streamflow
Near normalSacramento River at Verona streamflow
Daily mean discharge, Sacramento basin, California
Data through Sep 30, 2026 · source last checked Oct 1, 2026 · page revised Oct 1, 2026
Cite
- Discharge
About this data
- Source
- US Geological Survey (USGS)
- Series
- Daily mean streamflow (discharge)
- Geography
- Sacramento River at Verona
- Unit
- cfs
- Calculation
- Daily mean
- Last observation
- Sep 30, 2026
- Update frequency
- Daily
Now 14,800 cfs, 0% above the 5-yr median.
Sacramento River at Verona ran at 14,800 cfs, down 3.9% on the week and 14.5% on the month. Year-over-year discharge is down 9.2%. Flow stands at the 5-year median.
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week over week | 14,800 cfs | 15,400 cfs | -3.9% |
| Month over month | 14,800 cfs | 17,300 cfs | -14.5% |
| Year over year | 14,800 cfs | 16,300 cfs | -9.2% |
| vs 5-yr median | 14,800 cfs | 14,800 cfs | 0.0% |
| Reading | Discharge |
|---|---|
| Lowest on record for this week | 6,330 cfs |
| Median for this week | 14,800 cfs |
| Highest on record for this week | 18,100 cfs |
Previous weeks
Week of Sep 23, 2026
Sacramento River at Verona ran at 15,400 cfs through Sep 23, down 10.5% from last month's 17,200 cfs. Flow sits 3% above the 5-year median.
Week of Sep 15, 2026
Verona discharge fell to 15,700 cfs, down 10.8% on the week from 17,600 cfs and 16.0% on the month from 18,700 cfs. The river ran 3% above its 5-year median.
Week of Sep 2, 2026
Sacramento River at Verona runs at 17,400 cfs, 11% above the 5-year median. Discharge fell 3.3% from a month ago but is up 6.1% year over year.
Week of Aug 26, 2026
Discharge at Verona reached 17,300 cfs on 2026-08-26, down 2.8% from the prior week. Flow stands 9% above the 5-year median and is running 8.8% higher than the same period last year.
About Sacramento River at Verona
USGS gage 11425500 stands on the Sacramento River at Verona, just below where the Feather River comes in and downstream of the Sutter Bypass outfall. It carries most of the Sacramento Valley's combined runoff: everything the Bend Bridge gage upstream already counted, plus the Feather and Yuba systems behind Oroville and New Bullards Bar, plus whatever the bypass has spilled out of the mainstem in high water. That makes it the closest thing the valley has to a single total.
Its year is shaped by winter rain far more than by snowmelt, so the peaks are storm peaks and they come and go in days. Because the Sutter Bypass takes flood water out of the river above this point, a very high mainstem reading here means the bypass system is already carrying its share. A low summer reading is the more consequential one: this is the water approaching the Delta, where export pumping and salinity control both draw on it.