Skip to content
Cascadyas
EN

Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina Waterfall

Bereški vodopad

A 12 m drop.

When to go

Rakitnica Vodopad 05
Bojana Wiki PG · CC BY-SA 4.0

In numbers.

12m

Height

2.3m³/s

Average flow

estimate

Mar–Jun

Best months

272kW

Water power

estimate

The water at Bereški vodopad, month by month

It roars from March to June.

The fullest months: from March to June.

  1. 2.9 m³/sJan
  2. 3.1 m³/sFeb
  3. 4.8 m³/sMar
  4. 5.2 m³/sApr
  5. 5.8 m³/sMay
  6. 5.2 m³/sJun
  7. 2.6 m³/sJul
  8. 0.7 m³/sAug
  9. 1.7 m³/sSep
  10. 2.2 m³/sOct
  11. 2.5 m³/sNov
  12. 2.0 m³/sDec
high water best months to go

From about 0.69 m³/s in the lowest month to 5.8 m³/s in the highest. Best months to go, with plenty of water and pleasant days: from March to June.

Estimate: the timing comes from rain, snowmelt and evaporation (NASA POWER, 1991–2020); the amounts from the river model of HydroATLAS (WaterGAP, 1971–2000). Dams upstream can change the real flow.

Waterfall in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bereški vodopad is a waterfall in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The water falls 12 m.

Getting there.

Plan your visit

Stay, explore and get there

Some links above are affiliate links: if you book through them we may earn a commission, at no extra cost to you. It never changes what the data on this page says.

How big is it?

How big it really is.

12 mBereškivodopad1.8 ma person9.0 ma house56 mTower of Pisa

Height of the drop from Wikidata. Buildings and the person are drawn at the same scale.

272 kW

About 2.3 m³/s falling 12 m: the power of the water as it drops.

  • enough to power about 68 homes, if it were all turned into electricity

Power of falling water = density × gravity × flow × height. Average flow and height as shown above; an estimate.

Seen from the sky.

8 × 8 km of cloud-free satellite image, with what OpenStreetMap knows around the falls.

Bereški vodopad seen from above (Sentinel-2) N 2 km

Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 8 × 8 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

The Rakitnica through the falls
600 m620 mBereški vodopad-1.5 km-1 km-0.5 km0+0.5 km+1 km+1.5 km← upstreamdownstream →

The line follows the river as mapped in OpenStreetMap; heights from the 30 m Copernicus model, which smooths narrow drops — the published height of the falls is the one above.

The valley below the falls
−690 m+690 m

Around the falls the river drops 42 m in 3.5 km. Here the river runs about 91 m below the lower rim of its valley.

What is around.

  • —viewpoints
  • —waymarked walking routes
  • —car parks
  • —swimming spots
  • —picnic sites
  • —toilets
  • —information boards and visitor centres
  • —bus stops within 1 km
  • 1other named waterfalls within 4 kmBereg
  • —caves
  • —campsites
  • —hotels, B&Bs and huts within 6 km
  • —restaurants and cafés within 3 km

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit, up to 2 km around the falls (unless noted). A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet. © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

Towns nearby

  • Rogatica7.0 km in a straight line
  • Sokolac17 km in a straight line
  • Prača20 km in a straight line
  • Kopači21 km in a straight line
  • Goražde21 km in a straight line
  • Han Pijesak25 km in a straight line

Weather

The weather, month by month.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Afternoon °C451016202426262117115
Night °C-4-30491314141062-3
Rain & snow (mm)6364686999103756177717473
Wet days121111131414121011101112
Sun h/day2.53.24.76.07.08.19.08.45.84.83.01.9
Snow on the ground (cm)1517114100002715

Long-term averages 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) for a cell about 55 km wide, with temperatures carried to the height of the falls (603 m) at −6.5 °C per 1,000 m. Not a forecast.

Photos

Through visitors' eyes.

Rakitnica Vodopad 01
Bojana Wiki PG · CC BY-SA 4.0
Vodopad ,Rogatica @
Novakovic.milos.pop · CC BY-SA 4.0
Vodopad ,Rogatica
Novakovic.milos.pop · CC BY-SA 4.0

Recent years

Wet years and dry years

Rain of each month as a share of the 1991–2020 average. A wet season above 100 % usually means a fuller waterfall.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
202054%95%71%39%73%222%71%171%62%141%41%206%
2021257%62%88%93%65%30%77%87%65%144%224%188%
202258%82%44%90%53%83%67%121%155%13%167%159%
2023228%108%91%154%152%92%77%110%74%60%233%83%
202494%74%109%46%98%58%70%47%185%84%104%142%
202562%69%206%108%81%7%104%142%91%129%170%52%

130% wetter than usual 70% drier than usual

Compare with the waterfalls nearby.

Bereški vodopad

Bosnia and Herzegovina

  • 12 mHeight
  • 2.3 m³/sAverage flow
  • Mar–JunBest months

Skakavac Waterfall

Bosnia and Herzegovina

  • 98 mHeight
  • —Average flow
  • Apr–JulBest months

See the guide

Skakavac Waterfall

Bosnia and Herzegovina

  • —Height
  • 0.51 m³/sAverage flow
  • Apr–Jun, NovBest months

See the guide

Šištica waterfall

Bosnia and Herzegovina

  • 12 mHeight
  • 32 m³/sAverage flow
  • Mar–Apr, Oct–NovBest months

See the guide

About these numbers

Names, height, width, riverWikidata (Q55756365) · CC0
River flow and catchmentHydroATLAS / RiverATLAS v1.0 (Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0
ClimateNASA POWER, 1991–2020
Relief, river profile, 3D modelCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Paths, viewpoints, parking© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

Do you prefer beaches, lakes, mountains, waterfalls, islands, rivers or canyons?

Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, month by month, in seven languages.