Russia Waterfall

Don Falls

One of the waterfalls of Russia.

Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data), CC BY 4.0, with relief shading from Copernicus WorldDEM-30

In numbers.

Apr–Jun
Oct

Best months

180m

Elevation

The water at Don Falls, month by month

It roars from February to April.

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

71%Jan
80%Feb
99%Mar
100%Apr
75%May
51%Jun
41%Jul
24%Aug
29%Sep
42%Oct
44%Nov
39%Dec

high water best months to go may freeze

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

Waterfalls in Russia

Don Falls is a waterfall in Russia.

Getting there.

Uglerodovskiynearest town · 1.4 km in a straight line
Volgograd International Airport (VOG)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 324 km in a straight line
From April to June and Octoberbest months to go (estimate)

Plan your visit

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Seen from the sky.

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

N 2 km

Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 8 × 8 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

What is around.

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

Uglerodovskiy1.4 km in a straight line
Likhovskoy10 km in a straight line
Almaznyy11 km in a straight line
Likhoy12 km in a straight line
Gukovo13 km in a straight line
Zverevo14 km in a straight line
Izvaryne19 km in a straight line
Voznesenivka20 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	-1	6	15	22	27	30	30	23	14	6	0
Night °C	-9	-8	-4	3	10	15	18	17	10	4	-2	-6
Rain & snow (mm)	49	40	39	38	51	50	54	29	38	39	39	46
Wet days	10	9	10	9	11	10	9	6	7	7	8	10
Sun h/day	2.1	4.1	5.2	6.8	9.1	9.9	9.6	9.6	7.3	4.3	1.8	1.1
Snow on the ground (cm)	18	18	11	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	8	17

Long-term averages 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) for a cell about 55 km wide, with temperatures carried to the height of the falls (180 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	64%	215%	19%	56%	152%	77%	96%	108%	7%	74%	87%	65%
2021	146%	62%	190%	161%	153%	265%	82%	250%	138%	17%	141%	209%
2022	104%	147%	66%	133%	135%	56%	49%	137%	188%	203%	116%	81%
2023	42%	78%	143%	206%	192%	106%	92%	106%	47%	161%	235%	156%
2024	152%	132%	29%	44%	14%	120%	24%	47%	30%	57%	79%	76%
2025	45%	78%	85%	45%	62%	89%	79%	22%	28%	171%	33%	54%

130% wetter than usual 70% drier than usual

About these numbers

Names, height, width, river	Wikidata (Q30889419) · 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.