Russia 
In numbers.
0.14m³/s
Average flow
estimate
May–Jun
Best months
704m
Elevation
The water at Gadelsha Falls, month by month
It roars from April to May.
The fullest months: from April to May, with the snowmelt. The thinnest: from August to March. Below −4 °C on average (from November to March): the falls can partly freeze.
- 0.0 m³/sJan
- 0.0 m³/sFeb
- 0.2 m³/sMar
- 1.0 m³/sApr
- 0.8 m³/sMay
- 0.5 m³/sJun
- 0.3 m³/sJul
- 0.2 m³/sAug
- 0.2 m³/sSep
- 0.2 m³/sOct
- 0.1 m³/sNov
- 0.1 m³/sDec
From about 0.01 m³/s in the lowest month to 0.96 m³/s in the highest. Best months to go, with plenty of water and pleasant days: from May to June.
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.
Waterfall in SE Bashkortostan, Russia
Gadelsha Falls is a waterfall in Russia.
Getting there.
- Tubinskiynearest town · 18 km in a straight line
- Parking 620 m awaynearest car park in OpenStreetMap, straight line
- Magnitogorsk International Airport (MQF)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 75 km in a straight line
- From May to Junebest 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 266 m in 3.1 km. Here the river runs about 113 m below the lower rim of its valley.
What is around.
- 1viewpoints
- —waymarked walking routes
- 4car parks
- —swimming spots
- —picnic sites
- —toilets
- —information boards and visitor centres
- —bus stops within 1 km
- —other named waterfalls within 4 kmГадельша
- —caves
- —campsites
- —hotels, 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
- Tubinskiy18 km in a straight line
- Baymak19 km in a straight line
- Sibay20 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 | -13 | -11 | -4 | 6 | 16 | 21 | 24 | 23 | 15 | 5 | -4 | -12 |
| Night °C | -20 | -19 | -12 | -4 | 4 | 10 | 12 | 11 | 4 | -3 | -10 | -18 |
| Rain & snow (mm) | 27 | 28 | 38 | 45 | 48 | 48 | 56 | 47 | 37 | 42 | 34 | 26 |
| Wet days | 9 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 9 |
| Sun h/day | 3.8 | 6.2 | 7.8 | 7.5 | 8.7 | 9.5 | 8.8 | 7.3 | 5.7 | 3.5 | 2.2 | 2.6 |
| Snow on the ground (cm) | 35 | 42 | 42 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 18 | 24 |
Long-term averages 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) for a cell about 55 km wide, with temperatures carried to the height of the falls (704 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 | 142% | 168% | 69% | 117% | 60% | 26% | 190% | 114% | 52% | 60% | 57% | 37% |
| 2021 | 149% | 156% | 86% | 52% | 12% | 99% | 67% | 27% | 111% | 76% | 74% | 141% |
| 2022 | 106% | 102% | 81% | 62% | 214% | 129% | 86% | 23% | 163% | 105% | 225% | 73% |
| 2023 | 86% | 112% | 81% | 38% | 62% | 154% | 97% | 104% | 292% | 219% | 167% | 170% |
| 2024 | 148% | 87% | 50% | 169% | 169% | 356% | 370% | 273% | 34% | 42% | 93% | 99% |
| 2025 | 83% | 71% | 93% | 138% | 187% | 168% | 127% | 162% | 84% | 113% | 88% | 137% |
130% wetter than usual 70% drier than usual
Compare with the waterfalls nearby.
Gadelsha Falls
Russia
- —Height
- 0.14 m³/sAverage flow
- May–JunBest months
About these numbers
| Names, height, width, river | Wikidata (Q4195389) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| River flow and catchment | HydroATLAS / RiverATLAS v1.0 (Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 |
| 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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