When do salmon run in the Lower Niagara River, New York?

The run corridor The mouth Niagara Falls — the run stops here

The colour is this river's run stage today, read off NYSDEC run-timing guidance. Where along the corridor the fish are is not modelled here — only the sixteen rivers the staging estimator covers carry that. Drawn 30 September 2026, north up, and it is a map of the river rather than of the lake it runs from.

First runners · Chinook salmon as of 30 September 2026

The Lower Niagara River is running now. As of 30 September 2026 the loudest claim on it is atlantic salmon at tail-off, 61 days left in the window — atlantic salmon 1 September to 30 November, chinook salmon 1 September to 30 November and coho salmon 1 September to 30 November. The peaks: chinook salmon 1 October – 30 November, coho salmon 1 October – 30 November, lake-run brown trout 1 October – 31 October and steelhead 1 March 2027 – 30 April 2027. Windows are calendar guidance curated from New York run-timing prose and are month-grained, so the edges are the month rather than the day.

14.4 corridor miles · Lake Ontario · windows curated from New York guidance · page built 30 September 2026

Every run window on the Niagara River, in date order

The window is New York's curated run-timing guidance placed on this year's calendar. The stage beside it is this site's reading of that window against 30 September 2026 and nothing more — it is arithmetic on a date, not an observation of the river.

Species	Window	Peak	Today
Atlantic salmon	1 September – 30 November Sept–Nov · calendar	not stated	Tail-off 61 days left in the window
Chinook salmon	1 September – 30 November Sept–Nov · calendar	1 October – 30 November	First runners 61 days left in the window
Coho salmon	1 September – 30 November Sept–Nov · calendar	1 October – 30 November	First runners 61 days left in the window
Lake-run brown trout	1 September – 30 November Sept–Nov · calendar	1 October – 31 October	First runners 61 days left in the window
Steelhead	1 September – 31 May 2027 Sept–May · calendar	1 March 2027 – 30 April 2027	First runners 243 days left in the window