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Lykhyi Waterfall

A 20 m drop.

When to go

Водоспад Лихий
Gudyma s · CC BY-SA 4.0

In numbers.

20m

Height

Apr–Jul

Best months

830m

Elevation

The water at Lykhyi Waterfall, month by month

It roars from April to July.

The fullest months: from April to July. Below −4 °C on average (from January to February): the falls can partly freeze.

  1. 33%Jan
  2. 46%Feb
  3. 66%Mar
  4. 82%Apr
  5. 100%May
  6. 100%Jun
  7. 90%Jul
  8. 64%Aug
  9. 56%Sep
  10. 48%Oct
  11. 38%Nov
  12. 32%Dec
high water best months to go may freeze

Best months to go, with plenty of water and pleasant days: from April to July.

Estimate from rain, snowmelt and evaporation month by month (NASA POWER, 1991–2020) around the falls. Dams upstream can change the real flow.

Lykhyi Waterfall is a waterfall in Ukraine. The water falls 20 m.

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How big is it?

How big it really is.

20 mLykhyiWaterfall1.8 ma person9.0 ma house56 mTower of Pisa

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.

Lykhyi 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 Лихий through the falls
500 m600 m700 m800 mLykhyi Waterfall0+0.5 km+1 km+1.5 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 287 m in 1.8 km. Here the river runs about 264 m below the lower rim of its valley.

What is around.

  • —viewpoints
  • —waymarked walking routes
  • 1car parks
  • —swimming spots
  • —picnic sites
  • —toilets
  • 1information boards and visitor centres
  • —bus stops within 1 km
  • 1other named waterfalls within 4 kmТарничин водоспад
  • —caves
  • 7campsitesBase camp Kos.Polyana, Рекреаційний пункт кв. 22 виділ 3 and 5 more
  • 4hotels, B&Bs and huts within 6 kmСадиба Йонаша, Тис, Президент and 1 more
  • 5restaurants 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

  • Kostylivka3.1 km in a straight line
  • Vilkhovatyi3.8 km in a straight line
  • Dilove4.7 km in a straight line
  • Kosivska Poliana5.1 km in a straight line
  • Rosishka7.3 km in a straight line
  • Valea Vișeului7.4 km in a straight line
  • Luh8.4 km in a straight line
  • Lunca la Tisa9.0 km in a straight line

Weather

The weather, month by month.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Afternoon °C-2-14111720222318115-1
Night °C-9-8-41711121272-1-7
Rain & snow (mm)505164661141251208076695655
Wet days121214141818171312111212
Sun h/day2.43.54.66.06.77.07.47.45.54.02.11.7
Snow on the ground (cm)23221761000051118

Long-term averages 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) for a cell about 55 km wide, with temperatures carried to the height of the falls (830 m) at −6.5 °C per 1,000 m. Not a forecast.

Photos

Through visitors' eyes.

Біля водоспаду Лихий
Gudyma s · 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.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
202045%192%91%51%128%214%114%64%164%137%35%102%
2021152%168%105%144%122%74%128%115%89%22%103%200%
2022152%85%20%157%56%39%58%109%263%70%130%166%
2023150%173%83%141%48%124%122%108%56%104%208%190%
2024165%125%96%105%49%102%89%58%132%80%105%62%
202593%27%120%98%132%27%135%71%115%109%114%37%

130% wetter than usual 70% drier than usual

Compare with the waterfalls nearby.

Lykhyi Waterfall

Ukraine

  • 20 mHeight
  • —Average flow
  • Apr–JulBest months

Yalynskii Waterfall

Ukraine

  • 26 mHeight
  • —Average flow
  • Apr–JulBest months

See the guide

Tarnychyn Waterfall

Ukraine

  • 6 mHeight
  • —Average flow
  • Apr–JulBest months

See the guide

Polonsko-Kuziiskyi Waterfall

Ukraine

  • 2 mHeight
  • 0.12 m³/sAverage flow
  • Apr–JulBest months

See the guide

About these numbers

Names, height, width, riverWikidata (Q45342573) · CC0
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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