In the title compound, C6H7N2O2
+·I3
−·H2O, the triiodide anions form two-dimensional sheets along the a and c axes. These sheets are separated by the 4-nitroanilinium cations and water molecules, which form part of an extended hydrogen-bonded chain with the triiodide along the c axis, represented by the graph set C
3
3(14). The second important hydrogen-bonding interaction is between the nitro group, the water molecule and the anilinium group, which forms an R
2
2(6) ring and may be the reason for the deviation of the torsion angle between the benzene ring and the nitro group from 180 to 163.2 (4)°. These two strong hydrogen-bonding interactions also cause the benzene rings to pack off-centre from one another, with an edge-on-edge π–π stacking distance of 3.634 (6) Å and a centroid–centroid separation of 4.843 (2) Å.