Global warming significantly affects the frequency and intensity of droughts worldwide. In Europe, the regions such as the Rhone basin in southeastern France and the Po basin in northern Italy has experienced several droughts in the last years and the future climate scenarios do show increasing drying in those areas. These two basins, separated by the Alps mountains, are unique due to their diverse sources of water flow (mountains, plains, Mediterranean areas). This report focuses on comparing the hydrological intensity of droughts in these two basins and aims to determine how they were affected by the 2022 drought event. To achieve this goal, hydrological data from French and Italian archives were compared using various indices.