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Manavgat Waterfall

A 4 m drop.

When to go

Manavgat waterfall by tomgensler
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In numbers.

4m

Height

24m³/s

Average flow

estimate

Dec–Mar

Best months

931kW

Water power

estimate

The water at Manavgat Waterfall, month by month

It roars from December to February.

The fullest months: from December to February. The thinnest: from May to October.

  1. 54 m³/sJan
  2. 42 m³/sFeb
  3. 27 m³/sMar
  4. 17 m³/sApr
  5. 9.5 m³/sMay
  6. 4.5 m³/sJun
  7. 2.4 m³/sJul
  8. 1.8 m³/sAug
  9. 2.9 m³/sSep
  10. 9.9 m³/sOct
  11. 20 m³/sNov
  12. 43 m³/sDec
high water best months to go

From about 1.8 m³/s in the lowest month to 54 m³/s in the highest. Best months to go, with plenty of water and pleasant days: from December to March.

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 Manavgat, Turkey

Manavgat Waterfall is a waterfall in Turkey. The water falls 4 m over a front 40 m wide.

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How big is it?

How big it really is.

4.0 mManavgatWaterfall1.8 ma person9.0 ma house

Height of the drop from Wikidata. Buildings and the person are drawn at the same scale.

931 kW

About 24 m³/s falling 4 m: the power of the water as it drops.

  • enough to power about 233 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.

Manavgat 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 Manavgat Nehri through the falls
5 m10 mManavgat Waterfall-1.5 km-1 km-0.5 km0+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 5 m in 3.6 km.

What is around.

  • 3viewpoints
  • —waymarked walking routes
  • 5car parks
  • —swimming spots
  • —picnic sites
  • 1toilets
  • —information boards and visitor centres
  • —bus stops within 1 km
  • 1other named waterfalls within 4 km
  • —caves
  • —campsites
  • 143hotels, B&Bs and huts within 6 kmAy Işığı, Ay Işığı (eski), Neptun and 140 more
  • 28restaurants 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

  • Çayyazı0.9 km in a straight line
  • Sülek2.4 km in a straight line
  • Ulukapı2.9 km in a straight line
  • Çeltikçi3.1 km in a straight line
  • Manavgat3.2 km in a straight line
  • Aşağı Hisar3.5 km in a straight line
  • Demirciler5.4 km in a straight line
  • Gültepe6.8 km in a straight line

Weather

The weather, month by month.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Afternoon °C141619232733373733272116
Night °C781013172125252217129
Rain & snow (mm)182997056421664287298176
Wet days131088641237812
Sun h/day3.84.76.58.19.611.712.611.59.97.76.04.2
Snow on the ground (cm)862000000014

Long-term averages 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) for a cell about 55 km wide, with temperatures carried to the height of the falls (4 m) at −6.5 °C per 1,000 m. Not a forecast.

Photos

Through visitors' eyes.

07600 Çayyazı-Manavgat-Antalya, Turkey - panoramio (1)
Hulagu Turan · CC BY-SA 3.0
07600 Çayyazı-Manavgat-Antalya, Turkey - panoramio (2)
hakan kozan · CC BY 3.0
07600 Çayyazı-Manavgat-Antalya, Turkey - panoramio
Hulagu Turan · 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
202071%113%65%48%194%82%16%—13%53%52%126%
202189%24%105%24%7%249%95%—28%25%94%109%
2022147%159%86%16%30%167%34%—17%43%123%71%
202376%26%147%121%283%175%34%—56%32%119%78%
202497%80%100%13%74%55%343%—106%0%92%172%
202537%35%21%152%67%15%71%—38%89%64%81%

130% wetter than usual 70% drier than usual

Compare with the waterfalls nearby.

Manavgat Waterfall

Turkey

  • 4 mHeight
  • 24 m³/sAverage flow
  • Dec–MarBest months

Düden Waterfalls

Turkey

  • 49 mHeight
  • 3.8 m³/sAverage flow
  • Dec–MarBest months

See the guide

Kurşunlu Waterfall

Turkey

  • —Height
  • 1.9 m³/sAverage flow
  • Dec–MarBest months

See the guide

Yerköprü Waterfall

Turkey

  • —Height
  • 19 m³/sAverage flow
  • Feb–Mar, Nov–DecBest months

See the guide

About these numbers

Names, height, width, riverWikidata (Q2574216) · CC0
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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