Croatia Waterfall

Krčić waterfall

A 22 m drop.

When to go

The original uploader was SmirnofLeary at Serbian Wikipedia . · CC BY 3.0 rs

In numbers.

22m

Height

2.5m³/s

Average flow

estimate

Feb–Mar
Nov–Dec

Best months

534kW

Water power

estimate

The water at Krčić waterfall, month by month

It roars from November to March.

The fullest months: from November to March. The thinnest: from July to August.

4.2 m³/sJan
4.0 m³/sFeb
3.6 m³/sMar
3.1 m³/sApr
2.3 m³/sMay
1.5 m³/sJun
0.8 m³/sJul
0.7 m³/sAug
2.1 m³/sSep
3.0 m³/sOct
4.6 m³/sNov
4.8 m³/sDec

high water best months to go

From about 0.72 m³/s in the lowest month to 4.8 m³/s in the highest. Best months to go, with plenty of water and pleasant days: from February to March and from November to December.

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 Knin, Croatia

Krčić waterfall is a waterfall in Croatia. The water falls 22 m.

Getting there.

Kninnearest town · 3.1 km in a straight line
Parking 1,970 m awaynearest car park in OpenStreetMap, straight line
Split Saint Jerome Airport (SPU)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 56 km in a straight lineCar hire at SPU airport (Split)Discover Cars · Affiliate link
From February to March and from November to Decemberbest 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.

534 kW

About 2.5 m³/s falling 22 m: the power of the water as it drops.

enough to power about 133 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.

Krčić waterfall 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 Krčić through the falls

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

Around the falls the river drops 37 m in 1.8 km. Here the river runs about 124 m below the lower rim of its valley.

What is around.

—viewpoints
4waymarked walking routesPut Oluje, Guge-Brezovac, Od Knina do Brezovca and 1 more
2car parks
—swimming spots
8picnic sites
—toilets
2information boards and visitor centres
—bus stops within 1 km
—other named waterfalls within 4 km
—caves
1campsitesStari kamp
2hotels, B&Bs and huts within 6 kmHotel Ivan, Nada Zunic
10restaurants 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

Knin3.1 km in a straight line
Biskupija3.4 km in a straight line
Kijevo12 km in a straight line
Oklaj16 km in a straight line
Civljane17 km in a straight line
Bosansko Grahovo18 km in a straight line
Vrlika20 km in a straight line
Drniš21 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	7	8	12	17	22	27	30	31	24	19	14	8
Night °C	0	1	4	7	12	16	19	19	14	10	6	2
Rain & snow (mm)	91	86	74	70	68	59	39	52	95	94	125	110
Wet days	10	9	10	11	10	9	7	6	9	11	13	12
Sun h/day	2.4	3.1	4.5	5.7	7.0	8.6	9.5	8.5	5.8	4.6	2.8	2.2
Snow on the ground (cm)	11	10	6	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	8

Long-term averages 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) for a cell about 55 km wide, with temperatures carried to the height of the falls (235 m) at −6.5 °C per 1,000 m. Not a forecast.

Photos

Through visitors' eyes.

Cascade, near Knin, Dalmatia, Austro-Hungary-LCCN2002710769 — Photochrom Print Collection · Public domain

Knin – Krčić waterfall — Julian Nyča · CC BY-SA 3.0

Knin, Krčić - panoramio — kolerambo · CC BY-SA 3.0

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.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2020	13%	47%	48%	30%	75%	102%	35%	156%	113%	232%	35%	233%
2021	197%	46%	36%	92%	58%	19%	72%	109%	45%	91%	203%	142%
2022	34%	44%	28%	109%	54%	49%	45%	97%	96%	11%	154%	161%
2023	168%	71%	96%	103%	242%	136%	74%	220%	81%	77%	181%	91%
2024	82%	82%	207%	56%	95%	93%	106%	77%	199%	102%	66%	79%
2025	56%	86%	167%	53%	121%	18%	123%	107%	78%	71%	105%	55%

130% wetter than usual 70% drier than usual

Compare with the waterfalls nearby.

Krčić waterfall

Croatia

22 mHeight
2.5 m³/sAverage flow
Feb–Mar, Nov–DecBest months

Skradinski buk

Croatia

46 mHeight
55 m³/sAverage flow
Nov–FebBest months

See the guide

Roški Waterfall

Croatia

22 mHeight
24 m³/sAverage flow
Nov–FebBest months

See the guide

Štrbački buk

Bosnia and Herzegovina

24 mHeight
—Average flow
Mar–Apr, Oct–NovBest months

See the guide

About these numbers

Names, height, width, river	Wikidata (Q6590956) · 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.