Hunte is a 189-kilometre (117 mi) long river in north-western Germany (Lower Saxony), a left tributary of the Weser.

It flows generally northwards through the towns Bad Essen, Diepholz, Wildeshausen and Oldenburg.

The Küsten Canal, suitable for inland navigation only, links the Hunte in Oldenburg to river Ems near Papenburg.

The catchment of the Hunte is relatively narrow (its maximum width is about 40 km (25 mi)) and it extends from south to north mainly within the state of Lower Saxony but also to a small extent in North Rhine-Westphalia (counties of Minden-Lübbecke and Herford) for a length of about 110 km (68 mi).

By far the largest part of the catchment lies on the North German Plain, so that the Hunte flows mainly through bogs, geest and marshland.