- The Jhelum has its source in a spring at Verinag in the south-eastern part of the Kashmir Valley.
- It flows northwards into Wular Lake (north-western part of Kashmir Valley).
- From Wular Lake, it changes its course southwards. At Baramulla, the river enters a gorge in the hills.
- The river forms steep-sided narrow gorge through Pir Panjal Range below Baramula.
- At Muzaffarabad, the river takes a sharp hair-pin bend southward.
- After that, it forms the India-Pakistan boundary for 170 km and emerges at the Potwar Plateau near Mirpur.
- It joins the Chenab at Trimmu.
