Ukraine Waterfall

Boryslav Falls

A 2 m drop.

When to go

Helgi · CC BY-SA 4.0

In numbers.

Height

0.40m³/s

Average flow

estimate

Apr–Jul

Best months

8kW

Water power

estimate

The water at Boryslav Falls, month by month

It roars from April to July.

The fullest months: from April to July. The thinnest: December. Below −4 °C on average (January): the falls can partly freeze.

0.3 m³/sJan
0.4 m³/sFeb
0.6 m³/sMar
0.7 m³/sApr
0.8 m³/sMay
0.8 m³/sJun
0.8 m³/sJul
0.6 m³/sAug
0.6 m³/sSep
0.5 m³/sOct
0.3 m³/sNov
0.2 m³/sDec

high water best months to go may freeze

From about 0.18 m³/s in the lowest month to 0.84 m³/s in the highest. Best months to go, with plenty of water and pleasant days: from April to July.

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.

Boryslav Falls is a waterfall in Ukraine. The water falls 2 m over a front 3 m wide.

Getting there.

Boryslavnearest town · 2.3 km in a straight line
Parking 890 m awaynearest car park in OpenStreetMap, straight line
Rzeszów-Jasionka Airport (RZE)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 136 km in a straight lineCar hire at RZE airport (Jasionka)Discover Cars · Affiliate link
From April to Julybest months to go (estimate)

Plan your visit

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How big is it?

How big it really is.

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

8 kW

About 0.40 m³/s falling 2 m: the power of the water as it drops.

enough to power about 2 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.

Boryslav Falls 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 Тисьмениця through the falls

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

Around the falls the river drops 45 m in 3.5 km. Here the river runs about 28 m below the lower rim of its valley.

What is around.

—viewpoints
2waymarked walking routes№11 Борислав – скелі Довбуша (частина регіонального маршруту), Маршрут "Монастирська дорога" (ВелоБескиди)
12car parks
—swimming spots
—picnic sites
1toilets
1information boards and visitor centres
8bus stops within 1 km
—other named waterfalls within 4 km
—caves
7campsites
211hotels, B&Bs and huts within 6 kmЕдем, Журе, 4P and 208 more
5restaurants 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

Boryslav2.3 km in a straight line
Skhidnytsia7.0 km in a straight line
Truskavets7.2 km in a straight line
Stebnyk11 km in a straight line
Drohobych11 km in a straight line
Pidbuzh13 km in a straight line
Rykhtychi17 km in a straight line
Ulychne18 km in a straight line

Weather

The weather, month by month.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Afternoon °C	-1	1	6	14	19	22	25	25	20	13	7	0
Night °C	-8	-6	-3	3	8	12	14	14	9	4	0	-5
Rain & snow (mm)	38	38	45	50	94	92	100	72	68	55	40	40
Wet days	10	10	10	11	15	15	15	11	10	10	10	10
Sun h/day	1.5	2.6	4.2	5.8	6.5	7.0	7.3	7.4	5.3	3.6	1.7	1.0
Snow on the ground (cm)	17	16	11	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	7	16

Long-term averages 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) for a cell about 55 km wide, with temperatures carried to the height of the falls (396 m) at −6.5 °C per 1,000 m. Not a forecast.

Photos

Through visitors' eyes.

Бориславський водоспад — Roman Vesolovskyi · CC BY-SA 4.0

Boryslav Lvivska-house of the former NKVS 75 Shevchenka street-2 — Viacheslav Galievskyi · CC BY-SA 4.0

Boryslav Lvivska-house of the former NKVS 75 Shevchenka street-1 — Viacheslav Galievskyi · 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.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2020	51%	185%	98%	36%	165%	163%	104%	73%	201%	162%	46%	104%
2021	160%	172%	86%	128%	87%	61%	112%	146%	115%	7%	95%	180%
2022	126%	70%	61%	113%	32%	53%	65%	76%	156%	71%	62%	177%
2023	163%	147%	160%	144%	59%	127%	91%	98%	82%	114%	180%	136%
2024	172%	116%	137%	101%	39%	96%	69%	117%	159%	94%	51%	65%
2025	76%	34%	101%	139%	93%	44%	112%	59%	96%	67%	150%	38%

130% wetter than usual 70% drier than usual

Compare with the waterfalls nearby.

Boryslav Falls

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2 mHeight
0.40 m³/sAverage flow
Apr–JulBest months

Hurkalo

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0.19 m³/sAverage flow
Apr–JulBest months

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Kamianka waterfall

Ukraine

7 mHeight
0.38 m³/sAverage flow
Apr–JulBest months

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Krushelnytskyi Waterfall

Ukraine

3 mHeight
0.39 m³/sAverage flow
Apr–JulBest months

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About these numbers

Names, height, width, river	Wikidata (Q21345164) · CC0
River flow and catchment	HydroATLAS / RiverATLAS v1.0 (Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0
Climate	NASA POWER, 1991–2020
Relief, river profile, 3D model	Copernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Paths, viewpoints, parking	© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
Images	EOX 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.