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Bliha Waterfall

A 40 m drop.

When to go

Vodopad Blihe - panoramio - 87Edvin
87Edvin · CC BY 3.0

In numbers.

40m

Height

10m

Width

Mar–Apr
Oct–Nov

Best months

372m

Elevation

The water at Bliha Waterfall, month by month

It roars from September to May.

It carries water fairly evenly through the year.

  1. 80%Jan
  2. 87%Feb
  3. 89%Mar
  4. 84%Apr
  5. 81%May
  6. 63%Jun
  7. 43%Jul
  8. 42%Aug
  9. 77%Sep
  10. 88%Oct
  11. 100%Nov
  12. 82%Dec
high water best months to go

Best months to go, with plenty of water and pleasant days: from March to April and from October to November.

Estimate from rain, snowmelt and evaporation month by month (NASA POWER, 1991–2020) around the falls. Dams upstream can change the real flow.

Waterfall in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bliha Waterfall is a waterfall in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The water falls 40 m over a front 10 m wide.

Read more on Wikipedia

Getting there.

  • Sanski Mostnearest town · 12 km in a straight line
  • Parking 520 m awaynearest car park in OpenStreetMap, straight line
  • Banja Luka International Airport (BNX)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 63 km in a straight lineCar hire at ZAG airport (Velika Gorica)Discover Cars · Affiliate link
  • From March to April and from October to Novemberbest months to go (estimate)

Plan your visit

Stay, explore and get there

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How big is it?

How big it really is.

40 mBlihaWaterfall1.8 ma person9.0 ma house56 mTower of Pisa

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

Seen from the sky.

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

Bliha Waterfall 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 Bliha through the falls
300 m350 mBliha Waterfall-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.

Around the falls the river drops 93 m in 3.6 km.

What is around.

  • —viewpoints
  • —waymarked walking routes
  • 2car parks
  • —swimming spots
  • 1picnic sites
  • —toilets
  • —information boards and visitor centres
  • —bus stops within 1 km
  • —other named waterfalls within 4 km
  • —caves
  • —campsites
  • —hotels, B&Bs and huts within 6 km
  • 1restaurants 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

  • Sanski Most12 km in a straight line
  • Oštra Luka13 km in a straight line
  • Donji Dubovik19 km in a straight line
  • Sanica22 km in a straight line

Weather

The weather, month by month.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Afternoon °C451016202528282116105
Night °C-4-30591315151062-2
Rain & snow (mm)8185778210386698212110411492
Wet days10101112131211912111312
Sun h/day2.43.35.06.57.78.89.48.65.94.62.51.6
Snow on the ground (cm)131272000001512

Long-term averages 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) for a cell about 55 km wide, with temperatures carried to the height of the falls (372 m) at −6.5 °C per 1,000 m. Not a forecast.

Photos

Through visitors' eyes.

Bliha Waterfall (a)
Golden Bosnian Lily · CC BY-SA 4.0
Bliha Waterfall (b)
Golden Bosnian Lily · CC BY-SA 4.0
The Bliha Waterfall, Sanski Most
Đana Talić · CC0

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
202018%59%57%21%86%85%87%157%76%223%34%148%
2021144%44%42%99%90%16%118%68%48%112%122%129%
202254%58%38%90%66%71%60%51%162%24%160%164%
2023208%74%103%134%179%110%135%115%59%84%165%96%
202492%55%146%54%103%106%104%55%174%107%84%95%
202578%74%199%64%107%10%129%72%42%90%114%47%

130% wetter than usual 70% drier than usual

Compare with the waterfalls nearby.

Bliha Waterfall

Bosnia and Herzegovina

  • 40 mHeight
  • —Average flow
  • Mar–Apr, Oct–NovBest months

Štrbački buk

Bosnia and Herzegovina

  • 24 mHeight
  • —Average flow
  • Mar–Apr, Oct–NovBest months

See the guide

Pliva Waterfall

Bosnia and Herzegovina

  • —Height
  • 29 m³/sAverage flow
  • Mar–May, NovBest months

See the guide

Veliki slap

Croatia

  • 78 mHeight
  • 2.0 m³/sAverage flow
  • Mar–Apr, Oct–NovBest months

See the guide

About these numbers

Names, height, width, riverWikidata (Q4926471) · CC0
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.

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