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Kozjak Falls

A 15 m drop.

When to go

The Kozjak Stream Waterfalls, Kobarid, Slovenia
Mark Iverson · CC BY-SA 2.0

In numbers.

15m

Height

OpenStreetMap

0.56m³/s

Average flow

estimate

Aug–Nov

Best months

83kW

Water power

estimate

The water at Kozjak Falls, month by month

It roars from March to November.

It carries water fairly evenly through the year.

  1. 0.3 m³/sJan
  2. 0.3 m³/sFeb
  3. 0.6 m³/sMar
  4. 0.6 m³/sApr
  5. 0.7 m³/sMay
  6. 0.7 m³/sJun
  7. 0.6 m³/sJul
  8. 0.8 m³/sAug
  9. 0.9 m³/sSep
  10. 0.9 m³/sOct
  11. 0.9 m³/sNov
  12. 0.5 m³/sDec
high water best months to go

From about 0.31 m³/s in the lowest month to 0.90 m³/s in the highest. Best months to go, with plenty of water and pleasant days: from August to November.

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.

Kozjak Falls is a waterfall in Slovenia. The water falls 15 m.

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How big is it?

How big it really is.

15 mKozjak Falls1.8 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.

83 kW

About 0.56 m³/s falling 15 m: the power of the water as it drops.

  • enough to power about 21 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.

Kozjak Falls 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 Kozjak through the falls
200 m300 m400 m500 mKozjak Falls-1.5 km-1 km-0.5 km0+0.5 km← 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 311 m in 2.7 km. Here the river runs about 159 m below the lower rim of its valley.

What is around.

  • 15viewpointsVeliki Rob, Ozben - vzletišče, Male Skale and 12 more
  • 9waymarked walking routesEuropean long distance path E7 - part Slovenia, Juliana Trail, Trnovo-Krn and 6 more
  • 47car parks
  • —swimming spots
  • 11picnic sites
  • 10toilets
  • 23information boards and visitor centres
  • —bus stops within 1 km
  • 11other named waterfalls within 4 kmSlap Krampež, Mali Kozjak, Slap Stopnik 2 in 3 and 8 more
  • 3caves
  • 5campsitesKamp Trnovo, Kamp Koren, Kamp Lazar and 2 more
  • 44hotels, B&Bs and huts within 6 kmBlazar, Sobe pri Jazbecu, Love apartma Smast and 41 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

  • Kobarid1.9 km in a straight line
  • Bovec9.0 km in a straight line
  • Clodig12 km in a straight line
  • Savogna12 km in a straight line
  • Pulfero13 km in a straight line
  • Tolmin14 km in a straight line
  • Merso di Sopra16 km in a straight line
  • San Pietro al Natisone18 km in a straight line

Weather

The weather, month by month.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Afternoon °C561016212527272217116
Night °C-3-226111517171284-1
Rain & snow (mm)5866748311012012514013011811985
Wet days8810131617171613131210
Sun h/day3.84.65.65.76.27.48.37.45.94.63.13.4
Snow on the ground (cm)19191262000141018

Long-term averages 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) for a cell about 55 km wide, with temperatures carried to the height of the falls (312 m) at −6.5 °C per 1,000 m. Not a forecast.

Photos

Through visitors' eyes.

Kobarid Klamm am Kozjak-Fall 1
Zairon · CC BY-SA 4.0
Kobarid Klamm am Kozjak-Fall 2
Zairon · 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
202035%67%153%37%100%172%154%173%114%222%26%342%
2021285%157%41%98%268%52%123%111%58%75%147%99%
202297%69%40%125%85%82%96%94%199%70%97%176%
2023199%33%131%121%166%128%238%179%62%235%146%199%
2024172%209%233%132%210%153%126%60%227%224%36%42%
2025240%75%221%107%142%66%161%77%131%103%108%26%

130% wetter than usual 70% drier than usual

Compare with the waterfalls nearby.

Kozjak Falls

Slovenia

  • 15 mHeight
  • 0.56 m³/sAverage flow
  • Aug–NovBest months

Savica Falls

Slovenia

  • 571 mHeight
  • 0.74 m³/sAverage flow
  • May, Aug–OctBest months

See the guide

Boka

Slovenia

  • —Height
  • 13 m³/sAverage flow
  • Aug–NovBest months

See the guide

Peričnik Falls

Slovenia

  • 52 mHeight
  • 1.7 m³/sAverage flow
  • May, Aug–OctBest months

See the guide

About these numbers

Names, height, width, riverWikidata (Q14776034) · 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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