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Cascate di Stroppia

A 500 m drop.

When to go

Cascate di stroppia
Svetlheinz · CC BY-SA 4.0

In numbers.

500m

Height

May–Jul
Oct

Best months

2,294m

Elevation

The water at Cascate di Stroppia, month by month

It roars from April to June and in November.

The fullest months: from April to June and November, with the snowmelt. Below −4 °C on average (from December to March): the falls can partly freeze.

  1. 51%Jan
  2. 48%Feb
  3. 72%Mar
  4. 90%Apr
  5. 100%May
  6. 77%Jun
  7. 45%Jul
  8. 30%Aug
  9. 38%Sep
  10. 56%Oct
  11. 76%Nov
  12. 66%Dec
high water best months to go may freeze

Best months to go, with plenty of water and pleasant days: from May to July and October.

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

Cascate di Stroppia is a waterfall in Italy. The water falls 500 m.

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How big is it?

How big it really is.

500 mCascate diStroppia139 mGreat Pyramid330 mEiffel Tower443 mEmpire StateBuilding828 mBurj Khalifa

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.

Cascate di Stroppia 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 Rio di Stroppia through the falls
1,800 m2,000 m2,200 mCascate di Stroppia0+0.5 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 601 m in 0.9 km.

What is around.

  • 1viewpoints
  • 24waymarked walking routesSentiero Roberto Cavallero, Via Alpina Red R134, La Frontière Fortifiée and 21 more
  • 5car parks
  • —swimming spots
  • —picnic sites
  • —toilets
  • 2information boards and visitor centres
  • —bus stops within 1 km
  • —other named waterfalls within 4 km
  • —caves
  • 2campsitesCamping Campo Base, Camping Mistral
  • 6hotels, B&Bs and huts within 6 kmLocanda Mistral, Rifugio di Chiappera, B&B Oronaye and 3 more
  • —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

  • Acceglio8.2 km in a straight line
  • Pleyne12 km in a straight line
  • Prazzo Superiore13 km in a straight line
  • Bersezio15 km in a straight line
  • Canosio16 km in a straight line
  • Casteldelfino16 km in a straight line
  • Pontechianale16 km in a straight line
  • Jausiers17 km in a straight line

Weather

The weather, month by month.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Afternoon °C-4-405101518181381-4
Night °C-13-13-9-5-14651-2-7-12
Rain & snow (mm)444454637859434353719661
Wet days8881214129910111110
Sun h/day5.05.76.46.97.69.810.89.88.16.04.44.5
Snow on the ground (cm)222318104100151420

Long-term averages 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) for a cell about 55 km wide, with temperatures carried to the height of the falls (2,294 m) at −6.5 °C per 1,000 m. Not a forecast.

Photos

Through visitors' eyes.

Cascate di Stroppia 2
Einaz80 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Cascate di Stroppia
Einaz80 · 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
202068%50%111%104%134%192%79%166%81%134%17%119%
2021188%63%19%82%79%59%134%65%85%43%83%62%
20228%28%30%50%63%46%79%139%72%37%43%98%
202352%20%44%57%148%167%59%148%86%89%50%62%
202480%173%214%69%143%101%78%46%196%154%22%17%
202592%26%144%130%78%47%99%94%113%31%29%78%

130% wetter than usual 70% drier than usual

Compare with the waterfalls nearby.

Cascate di Stroppia

Italy

  • 500 mHeight
  • —Average flow
  • May–Jul, OctBest months

Cascade de Courmes

France

  • —Height
  • 2.9 m³/sAverage flow
  • Oct–JanBest months

See the guide

Cascade de Gairault

France

  • —Height
  • —Average flow
  • Mar, Nov–JanBest months

See the guide

Cascade de Sillans

France

  • 42 mHeight
  • 1.8 m³/sAverage flow
  • Oct–JanBest months

See the guide

About these numbers

Names, height, width, riverWikidata (Q56692899) · 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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