South Korea 
In numbers.
Jul–Oct
Best months
736m
Elevation
The water at Huibang Waterfall, month by month
It roars from July to September.
The fullest months: from July to September. The thinnest: from November to March. Below −4 °C on average (from December to February): the falls can partly freeze.
- 7%Jan
- 12%Feb
- 22%Mar
- 37%Apr
- 32%May
- 37%Jun
- 88%Jul
- 100%Aug
- 82%Sep
- 45%Oct
- 24%Nov
- 11%Dec
Best months to go, with plenty of water and pleasant days: from July to 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 South Korea
Huibang Waterfall is a waterfall in South Korea.
Getting there.
- Yeongjunearest town · 19 km in a straight line
- Parking 290 m awaynearest car park in OpenStreetMap, straight line
- Wonju Airport / Hoengseong Air Base (K-38/K-46) (WJU)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 73 km in a straight lineCar hire at GMP airport (Seoul)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From July to 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.
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Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 8 × 8 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.
What is around.
- 3viewpoints토성전망대, 바람고개전망대
- 1waymarked walking routes백두대간
- 4car parks
- —swimming spots
- —picnic sites
- 6toilets
- 2information boards and visitor centres
- —bus stops within 1 km
- —other named waterfalls within 4 km
- —caves
- 4campsites다리안국민관광지, 비로오토파크캠핑&펜션, 소백산삼가야영장 and 1 more
- 13hotels, B&Bs and huts within 6 km모텔2010, 산골민박, 소백산 유스호스텔 and 10 more
- 7restaurants 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
- Yeongju19 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 | -3 | 0 | 6 | 13 | 19 | 24 | 25 | 25 | 20 | 15 | 7 | -1 |
| Night °C | -12 | -10 | -5 | 0 | 7 | 12 | 17 | 17 | 12 | 4 | -3 | -10 |
| Rain & snow (mm) | 27 | 35 | 48 | 82 | 75 | 124 | 286 | 242 | 161 | 70 | 45 | 24 |
| Wet days | 5 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 11 | 18 | 17 | 11 | 7 | 7 | 5 |
| Sun h/day | 5.3 | 5.8 | 6.2 | 6.5 | 7.0 | 5.8 | 3.2 | 4.2 | 4.8 | 5.8 | 4.8 | 5.1 |
| Snow on the ground (cm) | 16 | 16 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 13 |
Long-term averages 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) for a cell about 55 km wide, with temperatures carried to the height of the falls (736 m) at −6.5 °C per 1,000 m. Not a forecast.
Photos
Through visitors' eyes.
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 | 293% | 168% | 45% | 42% | 101% | 96% | 151% | 144% | 155% | 8% | 64% | 14% |
| 2021 | 42% | 24% | 210% | 110% | 209% | 64% | 60% | 119% | 106% | 135% | 81% | 33% |
| 2022 | 13% | 8% | 173% | 78% | 18% | 151% | 72% | 108% | 60% | 126% | 120% | 15% |
| 2023 | 81% | 35% | 30% | 28% | 88% | 104% | 79% | 89% | 163% | 31% | 93% | 506% |
| 2024 | 113% | 282% | 124% | 68% | 138% | 95% | 134% | 38% | 163% | 144% | 87% | 30% |
| 2025 | 55% | 16% | 134% | 70% | 143% | 106% | 64% | 32% | 136% | 336% | 32% | 92% |
130% wetter than usual 70% drier than usual
Compare with the waterfalls nearby.
Huibang Waterfall
South Korea
- —Height
- —Average flow
- Jul–OctBest months
Pocheon Hantan River Basalt Gorge and Bidulginan Waterfall
South Korea
- —Height
- 0.15 m³/sAverage flow
- Jul–SepBest months
About these numbers
| Names, height, width, river | Wikidata (Q85989821) · 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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