Morocco Waterfall

Ouzoud Falls

A 110 m drop.

When to go

Alexander Leisser · CC BY-SA 4.0

In numbers.

110m

Height

1.3m³/s

Average flow

estimate

Mar
Nov–Jan

Best months

1.4MW

Water power

estimate

The water at Ouzoud Falls, month by month

It roars in March and from November to December.

The fullest months: March and from November to December. The thinnest: from June to September.

2.6 m³/sJan
2.4 m³/sFeb
3.3 m³/sMar
2.6 m³/sApr
1.4 m³/sMay
0.5 m³/sJun
0.2 m³/sJul
0.2 m³/sAug
0.5 m³/sSep
1.2 m³/sOct
3.5 m³/sNov
3.1 m³/sDec

high water best months to go

From about 0.20 m³/s in the lowest month to 3.5 m³/s in the highest. Best months to go, with plenty of water and pleasant days: March and from November to January.

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.

Moroccan cultural heritage site

Ouzoud Falls is a waterfall in Morocco. The water falls 110 m over a front 90 m wide.

Getting there.

Tabianearest town · 7.8 km in a straight line
Parking 150 m awaynearest car park in OpenStreetMap, straight line
Beni Mellal Airport (BEM)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 57 km in a straight lineCar hire at RAK airport (Marrakesh)Discover Cars · Affiliate link
March and from November to Januarybest 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.

1.4 MW

About 1.3 m³/s falling 110 m: the power of the water as it drops.

enough to power about 355 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.

Ouzoud Falls 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 Oued Tissakht وادي تيسخت 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.

Around the falls the river drops 115 m in 2.1 km.

What is around.

10viewpointsOuzoud Falls شلالات أوزود, Ouzoud Falls, Vue Des Cascades D'Ouzoud منظر شلالات أوزود and 7 more
—waymarked walking routes
5car parks
—swimming spots
—picnic sites
3toilets
1information boards and visitor centres
—bus stops within 1 km
2other named waterfalls within 4 km
—caves
5campsitesCamping de la Nature تخييم الطبيعة, Imouzzer إيموزار, Camping "Traumschiff Walhalla" and 2 more
12hotels, B&Bs and huts within 6 kmRiad Cascades d'Ouzoud الرياض الشلالات أوزود, Riad Dar Ouzoud, Riad Dar Fatna الرياض دار فاطنة and 9 more
13restaurants 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

Tabia7.8 km in a straight line
Taounza14 km in a straight line
Azilal15 km in a straight line
Ouaoula16 km in a straight line
Oulad Ayad22 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	14	16	20	22	27	32	37	36	30	25	19	16
Night °C	3	4	6	8	12	16	20	20	16	13	7	4
Rain & snow (mm)	38	36	54	35	20	6	6	8	22	37	68	40
Wet days	6	6	8	6	4	2	1	2	4	6	7	7
Sun h/day	7.6	8.2	9.0	9.7	10.8	12.4	12.3	11.3	9.8	8.5	7.3	7.3
Snow on the ground (cm)	4	3	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	3

Long-term averages 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) for a cell about 55 km wide, with temperatures carried to the height of the falls (1,068 m) at −6.5 °C per 1,000 m. Not a forecast.

Photos

Through visitors' eyes.

Lake below Ouzoud Falls, Morocco, 20250126 1402 7475 — Jakub Hałun · CC BY 4.0

Ouzoud Falls, Morocco, 20250126 1354 7463 — Jakub Hałun · CC BY 4.0

Ouzoud waterfalls In spring-Morocco — Kasmii · CC BY-SA 4.0

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	30%	2%	287%	164%	123%	5%	611%	74%	51%	63%	52%	55%
2021	157%	156%	105%	25%	218%	19%	5%	4%	277%	25%	33%	58%
2022	38%	47%	132%	364%	34%	105%	71%	51%	64%	96%	9%	124%
2023	18%	154%	6%	31%	121%	114%	57%	60%	20%	104%	1%	19%
2024	38%	97%	99%	23%	8%	19%	82%	51%	235%	153%	11%	49%
2025	49%	82%	178%	94%	39%	105%	320%	7%	36%	1%	44%	340%

130% wetter than usual 70% drier than usual

About these numbers

Names, height, width, river	Wikidata (Q38212) · 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.