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Rapidly changing river systems can impact people, property and infrastructures. This study investigates bank erosion and accretion of the Padma River in Bangladesh, through space and time, using historical topographic maps, Corona and Landsat images and navigational charts. A geographic information system (GIS) was utilised to quantify the erosion and accretion pattern. In addition, volumetric changes in the riverbed were also investigated. Results indicated that the area of erosion and deposition vary both spatially and temporally. However, erosion was more prominent on the left bank, whilst accretion was high along the right bank, over the study period. Overall, average annual erosion rates were higher than accretion rates (17 km² year⁻¹ versus 13 km² year⁻¹). The volumes of morphological change for two epochs correspond to a net volume gain of 338.75 million m³ sediment between 1984 and …