Poland Waterfall

Podgórna Waterfall

A 10 m drop.

When to go

Jojo · Public domain

In numbers.

10m

Height

OpenStreetMap

Apr–May
Jul–Aug

Best months

579m

Elevation

The water at Podgórna Waterfall, month by month

It roars from January to September.

It carries water fairly evenly through the year. Below −4 °C on average (January): the falls can partly freeze.

83%Jan
86%Feb
100%Mar
91%Apr
90%May
87%Jun
95%Jul
93%Aug
83%Sep
74%Oct
64%Nov
52%Dec

high water best months to go may freeze

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

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

Waterfall in the Giant Mountains, Poland

Podgórna Waterfall is a waterfall in Poland. The water falls 10 m.

Getting there.

Podgórzynnearest town · 3.3 km in a straight line
Parking 330 m awaynearest car park in OpenStreetMap, straight line
Pardubice Airport (PED)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 88 km in a straight lineCar hire at WRO airport (Wrocław)Discover Cars · Affiliate link
From April to May and from July to Augustbest 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 as mapped in OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors). 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.

The Podgórna 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 228 m in 2.6 km.

What is around.

6viewpointsPunkt widokowy imienia Manfreda i Jana Tkoczów, Stara Remiza and 4 more
9waymarked walking routesPodgórzyn Dolny - Czarna Przełęcz, Przesieka - Sosnówka Dolna, Szklarska Poręba - Wałbrzych and 6 more
32car parks
—swimming spots
8picnic sites
—toilets
10information boards and visitor centres
5bus stops within 1 km
5other named waterfalls within 4 kmKaskady Myi, Srebrne Kaskady, Wodospad Jodłówki and 2 more
—caves
1campsitesCamper Park Panorama
316hotels, B&Bs and huts within 6 kmRezydencja Markus, Pan Twardowski, Pod Dębem and 313 more
4restaurants 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

Podgórzyn3.3 km in a straight line
Sosnówka4.2 km in a straight line
Karpacz6.9 km in a straight line
Cieplice Śląskie Zdrój6.9 km in a straight line
Piechowice7.1 km in a straight line
Mysłakowice8.8 km in a straight line
Špindlerův Mlýn9.6 km in a straight line
Szklarska Poręba10 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	0	5	12	16	20	22	22	17	11	5	0
Night °C	-7	-6	-3	1	6	10	12	12	7	3	-1	-5
Rain & snow (mm)	63	46	54	40	70	81	96	85	66	57	54	56
Wet days	14	12	14	10	14	14	15	12	11	11	12	13
Sun h/day	1.2	2.4	3.8	6.2	6.6	6.9	6.8	6.3	5.1	3.2	1.3	0.8
Snow on the ground (cm)	18	16	11	3	0	0	0	0	0	2	8	17

Long-term averages 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) for a cell about 55 km wide, with temperatures carried to the height of the falls (579 m) at −6.5 °C per 1,000 m. Not a forecast.

Photos

Through visitors' eyes.

Przesieka Wodospad Podgórnej — This photo was taken by Przemysław Jahr Autorem zdjęcia jest Przemysław Jahr Wykorzystując · Public domain

Wodospad Podgórnej - tablica informacyjna — Szydzio · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wodospad Podgórnej, Karkonosze — Aneta Pawska · CC BY-SA 3.0 pl

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	53%	246%	85%	25%	129%	209%	42%	136%	112%	220%	47%	47%
2021	112%	100%	97%	132%	160%	114%	106%	173%	63%	60%	99%	93%
2022	92%	184%	33%	134%	55%	111%	63%	157%	112%	57%	71%	90%
2023	107%	157%	137%	187%	56%	73%	69%	210%	31%	137%	214%	182%
2024	104%	224%	44%	83%	66%	82%	83%	116%	311%	63%	102%	73%
2025	88%	37%	65%	93%	116%	72%	116%	65%	116%	147%	97%	49%

130% wetter than usual 70% drier than usual

Compare with the waterfalls nearby.

Podgórna Waterfall

Poland

10 mHeight
—Average flow
Apr–May, Jul–AugBest months

Pančavský vodopád

Czechia

148 mHeight
0.04 m³/sAverage flow
May–AugBest months

See the guide

Szklarka Waterfall

Poland

13 mHeight
0.84 m³/sAverage flow
Apr–May, Jul–AugBest months

See the guide

Kamieńczyk Waterfall

Poland

27 mHeight
—Average flow
Apr–May, Jul–AugBest months

See the guide

About these numbers

Names, height, width, river	Wikidata (Q9376270) · CC0
Height of the drop	© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
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.