Turkey 
In numbers.
2.3m³/s
Average flow
estimate
Apr–Jun
Best months
1,801m
Elevation
The water at Muradiye Waterfall, month by month
It roars from April to May.
The fullest months: from April to May, with the snowmelt. The thinnest: from July to December. Below −4 °C on average (January): the falls can partly freeze.
- 4.2 m³/sJan
- 5.3 m³/sFeb
- 8.7 m³/sMar
- 14 m³/sApr
- 15 m³/sMay
- 7.4 m³/sJun
- 2.3 m³/sJul
- 0.3 m³/sAug
- 0.3 m³/sSep
- 3.1 m³/sOct
- 2.8 m³/sNov
- 2.8 m³/sDec
From about 0.26 m³/s in the lowest month to 15 m³/s in the highest. Best months to go, with plenty of water and pleasant days: from April to June.
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.
Muradiye Waterfall is a waterfall in Turkey.
Getting there.
- Muradiyenearest town · 7.9 km in a straight line
- Parking 90 m awaynearest car park in OpenStreetMap, straight line
- Van Ferit Melen Airport (VAN)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 75 km in a straight lineCar hire at EVN airport (Yerevan)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From April to Junebest months to go (estimate)
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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 75 m in 3.6 km. Here the river runs about 32 m below the lower rim of its valley.
What is around.
- 2viewpointsSeyir Alanı
- —waymarked walking routes
- 4car parks
- —swimming spots
- 2picnic sites
- 1toilets
- —information boards and visitor centres
- —bus stops within 1 km
- 1other named waterfalls within 4 kmEzîdî
- —caves
- 1campsites
- —hotels, B&Bs and huts within 6 km
- 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
- Muradiye7.9 km in a straight line
- Çaldıran16 km in a straight line
- Deliçay24 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 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 13 | 18 | 26 | 31 | 31 | 25 | 16 | 8 | 2 |
| Night °C | -10 | -8 | -2 | 1 | 6 | 11 | 15 | 15 | 11 | 5 | -2 | -7 |
| Rain & snow (mm) | 25 | 23 | 38 | 52 | 49 | 26 | 13 | 9 | 13 | 36 | 30 | 29 |
| Wet days | 7 | 6 | 9 | 11 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 8 |
| Sun h/day | 5.7 | 6.5 | 6.1 | 5.8 | 8.1 | 11.5 | 11.8 | 11.1 | 9.8 | 6.7 | 4.7 | 4.5 |
| Snow on the ground (cm) | 18 | 17 | 14 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 17 |
Long-term averages 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) for a cell about 55 km wide, with temperatures carried to the height of the falls (1,801 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 | 84% | 149% | 122% | 134% | 117% | 94% | 146% | 120% | 2% | 29% | 53% | 86% |
| 2021 | 83% | 74% | 135% | 32% | 63% | 1% | 139% | 143% | 64% | 87% | 57% | 74% |
| 2022 | 126% | 44% | 90% | 33% | 119% | 64% | 9% | 33% | 23% | 78% | 72% | 22% |
| 2023 | 52% | 75% | 115% | 110% | 116% | 118% | 51% | 33% | 68% | 155% | 105% | 85% |
| 2024 | 237% | 39% | 186% | 74% | 180% | 66% | 193% | 46% | 191% | 116% | 98% | 40% |
| 2025 | 15% | 93% | 82% | 144% | 71% | 17% | 31% | 10% | 109% | 99% | 14% | 146% |
130% wetter than usual 70% drier than usual
Compare with the waterfalls nearby.
Muradiye Waterfall
Turkey
- —Height
- 2.3 m³/sAverage flow
- Apr–JunBest months
About these numbers
| Names, height, width, river | Wikidata (Q31190849) · 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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