Russia 
In numbers.
0.65m³/s
Average flow
estimate
Apr–Jul
Best months
1,050m
Elevation
The water at Medovyye Vodopady, month by month
It roars from April to June.
The fullest months: from April to June.
- 0.3 m³/sJan
- 0.4 m³/sFeb
- 1.1 m³/sMar
- 1.2 m³/sApr
- 1.7 m³/sMay
- 1.6 m³/sJun
- 1.0 m³/sJul
- 0.5 m³/sAug
- 0.4 m³/sSep
- 0.5 m³/sOct
- 0.2 m³/sNov
- 0.1 m³/sDec
From about 0.12 m³/s in the lowest month to 1.7 m³/s in the highest. Best months to go, with plenty of water and pleasant days: from April to July.
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.
Medovyye Vodopady is a waterfall in Russia.
Getting there.
- Krasnyy Kurgannearest town · 6.8 km in a straight line
- Parking 140 m awaynearest car park in OpenStreetMap, straight line
- Mineralnye Vody Airport (MRV)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 55 km in a straight lineCar hire at KUT airport (Kopitnari)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From April to Julybest 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 113 m in 3.5 km. Here the river runs about 132 m below the lower rim of its valley.
What is around.
- 4viewpointsВид на Аликоновское ущелье and 3 more
- —waymarked walking routes
- 3car parks
- —swimming spots
- 4picnic sites
- 1toilets
- —information boards and visitor centres
- —bus stops within 1 km
- —other named waterfalls within 4 km
- 1caves
- 1campsitesЛунапарк
- 2hotels, B&Bs and huts within 6 kmМедовые холмы
- 2restaurants 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
- Krasnyy Kurgan6.8 km in a straight line
- Uchkeken8.8 km in a straight line
- Nezhinskiy9.4 km in a straight line
- Pervomayskoye11 km in a straight line
- Kislovodsk11 km in a straight line
- Tereze13 km in a straight line
- Borgustanskaya20 km in a straight line
- Yasnaya Polyana20 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 | 7 | 13 | 18 | 22 | 25 | 25 | 21 | 14 | 8 | 3 |
| Night °C | -7 | -6 | -3 | 2 | 8 | 12 | 14 | 14 | 10 | 4 | -1 | -5 |
| Rain & snow (mm) | 35 | 30 | 56 | 48 | 78 | 84 | 68 | 53 | 50 | 56 | 45 | 39 |
| Wet days | 9 | 8 | 11 | 10 | 14 | 14 | 12 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 9 |
| Sun h/day | 3.4 | 4.6 | 4.2 | 6.7 | 7.9 | 9.0 | 9.4 | 9.2 | 7.1 | 4.8 | 3.0 | 2.6 |
| Snow on the ground (cm) | 18 | 16 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 16 |
Long-term averages 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) for a cell about 55 km wide, with temperatures carried to the height of the falls (1,050 m) at −6.5 °C per 1,000 m. Not a forecast.
Photos
Through visitors' eyes.
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 | 69% | 98% | 212% | 59% | 134% | 148% | 69% | 105% | 29% | 32% | 91% | 70% |
| 2021 | 140% | 266% | 99% | 158% | 138% | 141% | 128% | 134% | 157% | 94% | 79% | 85% |
| 2022 | 81% | 66% | 61% | 74% | 100% | 103% | 73% | 43% | 154% | 160% | 45% | 52% |
| 2023 | 19% | 129% | 104% | 157% | 143% | 113% | 100% | 27% | 53% | 57% | 207% | 123% |
| 2024 | 205% | 146% | 46% | 38% | 94% | 93% | 58% | 69% | 123% | 108% | 123% | 73% |
| 2025 | 35% | 123% | 85% | 207% | 104% | 89% | 51% | 56% | 187% | 162% | 19% | 89% |
130% wetter than usual 70% drier than usual
Compare with the waterfalls nearby.
Medovyye Vodopady
Russia
- —Height
- 0.65 m³/sAverage flow
- Apr–JulBest months
About these numbers
| Names, height, width, river | Wikidata (Q18045710) · 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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