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Dogholoo Waterfall

A 10 m drop.

When to go

Twin Falls - panoramio
Mehrdad Sarhangi · CC BY 3.0

In numbers.

10m

Height

OpenStreetMap

6m

Width

Apr–May
Oct

Best months

2,657m

Elevation

The water at Dogholoo Waterfall, month by month

It roars from March to April.

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

  1. 49%Jan
  2. 53%Feb
  3. 89%Mar
  4. 100%Apr
  5. 56%May
  6. 19%Jun
  7. 6%Jul
  8. 6%Aug
  9. 23%Sep
  10. 61%Oct
  11. 71%Nov
  12. 52%Dec
high water best months to go may freeze

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

Waterfall in Tehran, Iran

Dogholoo Waterfall is a waterfall in Iran. The water falls 10 m over a front 6 m wide.

Read more on Wikipedia

Getting there.

  • Tajrīshnearest town · 5.6 km in a straight line
  • Mehrabad International Airport (THR)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 21 km in a straight line
  • From April to May and Octoberbest months to go (estimate)

Plan your visit

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How big is it?

How big it really is.

10 mDogholooWaterfall1.8 ma person9.0 ma house56 mTower of Pisa

Height of the drop as mapped in OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors). 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.

Dogholoo 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 رودخانه شیرپلا through the falls
2,000 m2,500 m3,000 mDogholoo Waterfall-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 985 m in 2.9 km. Here the river runs about 151 m below the lower rim of its valley.

What is around.

  • 1viewpoints
  • —waymarked walking routes
  • —car parks
  • —swimming spots
  • —picnic sites
  • 2toilets
  • —information boards and visitor centres
  • —bus stops within 1 km
  • 2other named waterfalls within 4 kmآبشار سوتک, آبشار رجب
  • —caves
  • 4campsitesفرخ حسینی, برگزار کننده تورهای طبیعت گردی, پناهگاه کلکچال and 1 more
  • 21hotels, B&Bs and huts within 6 kmهتل دزاشیب, خانه معلم, هتل اوسون and 18 more
  • 36restaurants 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

  • Tajrīsh5.6 km in a straight line
  • Shahrak-e Qods12 km in a straight line
  • Fasham12 km in a straight line
  • Sūleqān15 km in a straight line
  • Vaḩīdīyeh16 km in a straight line
  • Tehran18 km in a straight line
  • Andīsheh18 km in a straight line
  • Lavāsān20 km in a straight line

Weather

The weather, month by month.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Afternoon °C-3-14101623252420134-1
Night °C-12-11-6-149131282-5-10
Rain & snow (mm)474847451712172044778054
Wet days9897433368109
Sun h/day3.94.04.85.97.79.18.18.16.85.54.03.7
Snow on the ground (cm)25271760000031321

Long-term averages 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) for a cell about 55 km wide, with temperatures carried to the height of the falls (2,657 m) at −6.5 °C per 1,000 m. Not a forecast.

Photos

Through visitors' eyes.

Tehran - Darband - Shirpala - Abshar Dogholou (Double Waterfall) - panoramio
Alireza Javaheri · CC BY 3.0
Shirpala-Twin-Falls-2024
Ahangarha · CC BY-SA 4.0
Darband Twin Falls
M samadi · CC BY-SA 3.0

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
2020118%240%145%245%149%41%78%327%62%46%196%132%
202152%100%96%9%237%51%176%40%72%127%169%42%
2022153%84%112%19%130%13%239%18%129%47%41%203%
202398%130%141%39%278%174%225%68%137%136%116%127%
2024175%138%53%55%406%456%56%29%126%141%98%49%
202563%71%105%51%57%54%7%35%86%45%4%237%

130% wetter than usual 70% drier than usual

Compare with the waterfalls nearby.

Dogholoo Waterfall

Iran

  • 10 mHeight
  • —Average flow
  • Apr–May, OctBest months

Sangan Waterfall

Iran

  • —Height
  • —Average flow
  • Apr–May, OctBest months

See the guide

Yakhi Waterfall

Iran

  • —Height
  • —Average flow
  • —Best months

See the guide

Shahandasht Waterfall

Iran

  • 180 mHeight
  • 0.37 m³/sAverage flow
  • Mar–Apr, Oct–NovBest months

See the guide

About these numbers

Names, height, width, riverWikidata (Q5853793) · CC0
Height of the drop© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
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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