Poland 
In numbers.
27m
Height
Apr–May
Jul–Aug
Best months
860m
Elevation
The water at Kamieńczyk Waterfall, month by month
It roars from January to October.
It carries water fairly evenly through the year. Below −4 °C on average (from December to February): the falls can partly freeze.
- 83%Jan
- 86%Feb
- 100%Mar
- 92%Apr
- 91%May
- 89%Jun
- 98%Jul
- 95%Aug
- 85%Sep
- 75%Oct
- 64%Nov
- 52%Dec
Best months to go, with plenty of water and pleasant days: from April to May and from July to August.
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 the Giant Mountains, Poland
Kamieńczyk Waterfall is a waterfall on the Kamieńczyk, in Poland. The water falls 27 m. It lies within Karkonosze National Park.
Getting there.
- Szklarska Porębanearest town · 2.2 km in a straight line
- Parking 1,410 m awaynearest car park in OpenStreetMap, straight line
- Pardubice Airport (PED)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 90 km in a straight lineCar hire at WRO airport (Wrocław)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From April to May and from July to Augustbest months to go (estimate)
Plan your visit
Stay, explore and get there
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How big is it?
How big it really is.
Height of the drop from Wikidata. 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.
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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 342 m in 3.4 km. Here the river runs about 15 m below the lower rim of its valley.
What is around.
- 8viewpointsKrucze Skały, Stary Kamieniołom, Karczmarz and 5 more
- 9waymarked walking routesSzklarska Poręba - Śnieżne Kotły, Szklarska Poręba - Pasterka, Główny Szlak Sudecki and 6 more
- 111car parks
- —swimming spots
- 16picnic sites
- 11toilets
- 32information boards and visitor centres
- —bus stops within 1 km
- 1other named waterfalls within 4 kmvodopád Kamenice
- —caves
- 5campsitesNad Rozkosznym Stawem, Kemping Pod Mostem, Baza Harcerska ZHP Czerwonak and 2 more
- 373hotels, B&Bs and huts within 6 kmParkhotel Harrachov, Górnicza Strzecha, Motejlek and 370 more
- 60restaurants 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
- Szklarska Poręba2.2 km in a straight line
- Harrachov6.5 km in a straight line
- Piechowice8.2 km in a straight line
- Rokytnice nad Jizerou11 km in a straight line
- Kořenov11 km in a straight line
- Stara Kamienica12 km in a straight line
- Jablonec nad Jizerou13 km in a straight line
- Podgórzyn13 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 | -1 | 3 | 10 | 14 | 18 | 20 | 20 | 15 | 9 | 3 | -2 |
| Night °C | -9 | -8 | -5 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 1 | -3 | -7 |
| Rain & snow (mm) | 63 | 46 | 54 | 40 | 70 | 81 | 96 | 85 | 66 | 57 | 54 | 56 |
| Wet days | 14 | 12 | 14 | 10 | 14 | 14 | 15 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
| Sun h/day | 1.2 | 2.4 | 3.8 | 6.2 | 6.6 | 6.9 | 6.8 | 6.3 | 5.1 | 3.2 | 1.3 | 0.8 |
| Snow on the ground (cm) | 18 | 16 | 11 | 3 | 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 (860 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 | 53% | 246% | 85% | 25% | 129% | 209% | 42% | 136% | 112% | 220% | 47% | 47% |
| 2021 | 112% | 100% | 97% | 132% | 160% | 114% | 106% | 173% | 63% | 60% | 99% | 93% |
| 2022 | 92% | 184% | 33% | 134% | 55% | 111% | 63% | 157% | 112% | 57% | 71% | 90% |
| 2023 | 107% | 157% | 137% | 187% | 56% | 73% | 69% | 210% | 31% | 137% | 214% | 182% |
| 2024 | 104% | 224% | 44% | 83% | 66% | 82% | 83% | 116% | 311% | 63% | 102% | 73% |
| 2025 | 88% | 37% | 65% | 93% | 116% | 72% | 116% | 65% | 116% | 147% | 97% | 49% |
130% wetter than usual 70% drier than usual
Compare with the waterfalls nearby.
Kamieńczyk Waterfall
Poland
- 27 mHeight
- —Average flow
- Apr–May, Jul–AugBest months
About these numbers
| Names, height, width, river | Wikidata (Q139934) · 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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