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Düden Waterfalls

A 49 m drop.

When to go

Upper Duden Falls
Saffron Blaze · CC BY-SA 3.0

In numbers.

49m

Height

OpenStreetMap

3.8m³/s

Average flow

estimate

Dec–Mar

Best months

1.8MW

Water power

estimate

The water at Düden Waterfalls, month by month

It roars from December to February.

The fullest months: from December to February. The thinnest: from May to October.

  1. 11 m³/sJan
  2. 8.3 m³/sFeb
  3. 5.4 m³/sMar
  4. 3.2 m³/sApr
  5. 1.8 m³/sMay
  6. 0.8 m³/sJun
  7. 0.4 m³/sJul
  8. 0.3 m³/sAug
  9. 0.5 m³/sSep
  10. 1.6 m³/sOct
  11. 3.6 m³/sNov
  12. 8.4 m³/sDec
high water best months to go

From about 0.28 m³/s in the lowest month to 11 m³/s in the highest. Best months to go, with plenty of water and pleasant days: from December to March.

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.

Group of waterfalls in the province of Antalya, Turkey

Düden Waterfalls is a coastal waterfall in Turkey. The water falls 49 m over a front 10 m wide.

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How big is it?

How big it really is.

49 mDüdenWaterfalls1.8 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.

1.8 MW

About 3.8 m³/s falling 49 m: the power of the water as it drops.

  • enough to power about 452 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.

Düden Waterfalls 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 Düden Çayı through the falls
20 m40 mDüden Waterfalls-1.5 km-1 km-0.5 km0← 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 33 m in 1.8 km.

What is around.

  • 8viewpointsDüden Park and 7 more
  • —waymarked walking routes
  • 66car parks
  • —swimming spots
  • 10picnic sites
  • 3toilets
  • —information boards and visitor centres
  • 19bus stops within 1 km
  • 1other named waterfalls within 4 km
  • —caves
  • 1campsites
  • 73hotels, B&Bs and huts within 6 kmFalcon, UpOn Hotel, Tugce Pansyon and 70 more
  • 119restaurants 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

  • Muratpaşa4.8 km in a straight line
  • Karaçallı8.8 km in a straight line
  • Antalya10 km in a straight line
  • Gündoğdu11 km in a straight line
  • Kumköy15 km in a straight line
  • Fettahlı16 km in a straight line
  • Varsak17 km in a straight line
  • Aşağı Kocayatak17 km in a straight line

Weather

The weather, month by month.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Afternoon °C141519232834383834282216
Night °C67912172125252116118
Rain & snow (mm)182976855421865256491174
Wet days121088742236711
Sun h/day4.35.16.88.29.611.812.611.410.07.76.24.5
Snow on the ground (cm)862000000014

Long-term averages 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) for a cell about 55 km wide, with temperatures carried to the height of the falls (19 m) at −6.5 °C per 1,000 m. Not a forecast.

Photos

Through visitors' eyes.

Lower Duden Falls
Saffron Blaze · CC BY 3.0
Düden river, Antalya, Turkey, 2023
Zmaragdinae Caeruleum · CC BY-SA 4.0
Düden waterfall cycling road
Süheylam · 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
202046%92%66%43%131%100%20%168%11%63%39%155%
202189%21%85%12%9%271%53%24%33%21%108%117%
2022116%143%77%19%37%164%37%130%13%47%110%72%
202383%14%145%96%347%181%20%12%59%25%125%64%
202467%83%107%14%72%64%431%156%95%0%62%153%
202548%37%24%159%65%17%90%74%37%81%74%64%

130% wetter than usual 70% drier than usual

Compare with the waterfalls nearby.

Düden Waterfalls

Turkey

  • 49 mHeight
  • 3.8 m³/sAverage flow
  • Dec–MarBest months

Kurşunlu Waterfall

Turkey

  • —Height
  • 1.9 m³/sAverage flow
  • Dec–MarBest months

See the guide

Manavgat Waterfall

Turkey

  • 4 mHeight
  • 24 m³/sAverage flow
  • Dec–MarBest months

See the guide

Yerköprü Waterfall

Turkey

  • —Height
  • 19 m³/sAverage flow
  • Feb–Mar, Nov–DecBest months

See the guide

About these numbers

Names, height, width, riverWikidata (Q2666468) · CC0
Height of the drop© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
River flow and catchmentHydroATLAS / RiverATLAS v1.0 (Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0
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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