Austria 
In numbers.
0.44m³/s
Average flow
estimate
Jun–Sep
Best months
641m
Elevation
The water at Kesselfall, month by month
It roars from May to October.
The fullest months: from May to October.
- 0.2 m³/sJan
- 0.3 m³/sFeb
- 0.5 m³/sMar
- 0.6 m³/sApr
- 0.7 m³/sMay
- 0.8 m³/sJun
- 0.8 m³/sJul
- 0.8 m³/sAug
- 0.9 m³/sSep
- 0.7 m³/sOct
- 0.5 m³/sNov
- 0.3 m³/sDec
From about 0.18 m³/s in the lowest month to 0.88 m³/s in the highest. Best months to go, with plenty of water and pleasant days: from June to September.
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 Styria
Kesselfall is a waterfall in Austria.
Getting there.
- Semriachnearest town · 1.2 km in a straight line
- Parking 470 m awaynearest car park in OpenStreetMap, straight line
- Graz Airport (GRZ)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 24 km in a straight lineCar hire at GRZ airport (Feldkirchen bei Graz)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From June to Septemberbest 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.
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 132 m in 2.2 km. Here the river runs about 110 m below the lower rim of its valley.
What is around.
- 7viewpoints
- 33waymarked walking routesWanderweg 757 Rund um den Schöckl, Wanderweg 767, Wanderweg 19 and 30 more
- 17car parks
- —swimming spots
- 1picnic sites
- 1toilets
- 22information boards and visitor centres
- 6bus stops within 1 km
- 1other named waterfalls within 4 kmMitterbach Wasserfall
- 10caves
- —campsites
- 15hotels, B&Bs and huts within 6 kmSemriacherhof, Gasthof Grabmayer, Seminar- u. Ferienhotel Trattnerhof and 12 more
- 11restaurants 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
- Semriach1.2 km in a straight line
- Peggau3.7 km in a straight line
- Deutschfeistritz4.8 km in a straight line
- Sankt Radegund bei Graz7.5 km in a straight line
- Gratkorn8.8 km in a straight line
- Kirchenviertel9.1 km in a straight line
- Frohnleiten9.2 km in a straight line
- Andritz10 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 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 14 | 19 | 24 | 26 | 25 | 19 | 14 | 7 | 2 |
| Night °C | -6 | -5 | -2 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 14 | 14 | 8 | 4 | -1 | -5 |
| Rain & snow (mm) | 32 | 40 | 43 | 52 | 90 | 104 | 107 | 110 | 96 | 61 | 56 | 42 |
| Wet days | 6 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 14 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8 |
| Sun h/day | 2.7 | 4.0 | 4.9 | 5.8 | 5.9 | 6.5 | 7.0 | 6.5 | 5.0 | 4.3 | 2.6 | 2.3 |
| Snow on the ground (cm) | 16 | 14 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 14 |
Long-term averages 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) for a cell about 55 km wide, with temperatures carried to the height of the falls (641 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 | 26% | 75% | 75% | 72% | 69% | 117% | 160% | 148% | 119% | 151% | 41% | 204% |
| 2021 | 149% | 56% | 46% | 65% | 156% | 44% | 86% | 107% | 44% | 68% | 135% | 136% |
| 2022 | 51% | 66% | 41% | 113% | 91% | 101% | 91% | 74% | 134% | 51% | 90% | 113% |
| 2023 | 266% | 55% | 159% | 164% | 154% | 111% | 212% | 160% | 26% | 150% | 131% | 209% |
| 2024 | 153% | 75% | 119% | 109% | 160% | 139% | 136% | 56% | 178% | 151% | 36% | 38% |
| 2025 | 86% | 63% | 219% | 156% | 90% | 55% | 139% | 59% | 125% | 83% | 107% | 59% |
130% wetter than usual 70% drier than usual
Compare with the waterfalls nearby.
Kesselfall
Austria
- —Height
- 0.44 m³/sAverage flow
- Jun–SepBest months
About these numbers
| Names, height, width, river | Wikidata (Q1739798) · 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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