Italy 
In numbers.
Aug–Nov
Best months
740m
Elevation
The water at Category:Goriuda waterfall, month by month
It roars from April to December.
It carries water fairly evenly through the year.
- 58%Jan
- 54%Feb
- 72%Mar
- 83%Apr
- 93%May
- 88%Jun
- 84%Jul
- 94%Aug
- 93%Sep
- 96%Oct
- 100%Nov
- 76%Dec
Best months to go, with plenty of water and pleasant days: from August 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.
Category:Goriuda waterfall is a waterfall in Italy.
Getting there.
- Pratonearest town · 10 km in a straight line
- Parking 220 m awaynearest car park in OpenStreetMap, straight line
- Trieste Airport (TRS)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 63 km in a straight lineCar hire at TRS airport (Ronchi dei Legionari/Trieste)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From August to Novemberbest months to go (estimate)
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Seen from the sky.
8 × 8 km of cloud-free satellite image, with what OpenStreetMap knows around the falls.
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Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 8 × 8 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.
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 224 m in 0.3 km. Here the river runs about 140 m below the lower rim of its valley.
What is around.
- —viewpoints
- 12waymarked walking routesSentiero Sereno, Alta Via Resiana, Troi dai Sacs and 9 more
- 5car parks
- —swimming spots
- 2picnic sites
- —toilets
- 2information boards and visitor centres
- 2bus stops within 1 km
- 1other named waterfalls within 4 kmCascata Cjalderon
- 37caves
- —campsites
- 12hotels, B&Bs and huts within 6 kmCasere Cregnedul di Sopra, Rifugio Giacomo di Brazzà, Rifugio Guido Corsi and 9 more
- 6restaurants 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
- Prato10 km in a straight line
- Chiusaforte10 km in a straight line
- Bovec11 km in a straight line
- Dogna11 km in a straight line
- Malborghetto13 km in a straight line
- Pontebba16 km in a straight line
- Resiutta17 km in a straight line
- Tarvisio17 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 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 13 | 18 | 22 | 24 | 24 | 19 | 14 | 8 | 4 |
| Night °C | -5 | -4 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 13 | 15 | 14 | 10 | 6 | 2 | -3 |
| Rain & snow (mm) | 59 | 64 | 77 | 87 | 116 | 120 | 129 | 147 | 122 | 123 | 128 | 87 |
| Wet days | 8 | 8 | 10 | 14 | 18 | 19 | 19 | 18 | 14 | 12 | 12 | 10 |
| Sun h/day | 3.8 | 4.6 | 5.6 | 5.7 | 6.2 | 7.4 | 8.3 | 7.4 | 5.9 | 4.6 | 3.1 | 3.4 |
| Snow on the ground (cm) | 20 | 21 | 15 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 19 |
Long-term averages 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) for a cell about 55 km wide, with temperatures carried to the height of the falls (740 m) at −6.5 °C per 1,000 m. Not a forecast.
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 | 20% | 41% | 126% | 35% | 93% | 148% | 141% | 186% | 119% | 207% | 15% | 361% |
| 2021 | 227% | 119% | 25% | 85% | 195% | 54% | 108% | 94% | 55% | 56% | 125% | 75% |
| 2022 | 69% | 49% | 38% | 100% | 69% | 85% | 84% | 94% | 134% | 49% | 79% | 122% |
| 2023 | 123% | 23% | 91% | 103% | 141% | 106% | 181% | 131% | 44% | 176% | 124% | 136% |
| 2024 | 134% | 198% | 193% | 117% | 194% | 154% | 106% | 49% | 197% | 189% | 15% | 39% |
| 2025 | 166% | 71% | 183% | 110% | 158% | 82% | 153% | 86% | 139% | 89% | 94% | 27% |
130% wetter than usual 70% drier than usual
Compare with the waterfalls nearby.
Category:Goriuda waterfall
Italy
- —Height
- —Average flow
- Aug–NovBest months
About these numbers
| Names, height, width, river | Wikidata (Q140378242) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| 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.
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