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Probiy

A 8 m drop.

When to go

Probij-2
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In numbers.

8m

Height

OpenStreetMap

11m³/s

Average flow

estimate

Apr–Jul

Best months

853kW

Water power

estimate

The water at Probiy, month by month

It roars from April to July.

The fullest months: from April to July. The thinnest: December. Below −4 °C on average (January): the falls can partly freeze.

  1. 5.1 m³/sJan
  2. 9.1 m³/sFeb
  3. 15 m³/sMar
  4. 19 m³/sApr
  5. 26 m³/sMay
  6. 27 m³/sJun
  7. 24 m³/sJul
  8. 16 m³/sAug
  9. 13 m³/sSep
  10. 10 m³/sOct
  11. 5.8 m³/sNov
  12. 2.7 m³/sDec
high water best months to go may freeze

From about 2.7 m³/s in the lowest month to 27 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.

Waterfall in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine

Probiy is a waterfall in Ukraine. The water falls 8 m.

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How big is it?

How big it really is.

8.0 mProbiy1.8 ma person9.0 ma house

Height of the drop as mapped in OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors). Buildings and the person are drawn at the same scale.

853 kW

About 11 m³/s falling 8 m: the power of the water as it drops.

  • enough to power about 213 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.

Probiy 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 Прут through the falls
500 m520 m540 mProbiy-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 44 m in 3.6 km. Here the river runs about 59 m below the lower rim of its valley.

What is around.

  • 14viewpoints"Пробій" водоспад, Точка огляду, View & Break Point and 11 more
  • 8waymarked walking routesСтежка Довбуша, Яремче-Маковиця, Яремче - пол. Явір - пол. Вовча - Яремче and 5 more
  • 22car parks
  • —swimming spots
  • 17picnic sites
  • 7toilets
  • 11information boards and visitor centres
  • 3bus stops within 1 km
  • 4other named waterfalls within 4 kmДівочі Сльози, Водоспад Багровецький Малий, Чоловічі сльози and 1 more
  • 2caves
  • 22campsites
  • 138hotels, B&Bs and huts within 6 kmКарпати, Гомін Прута, Ярсон and 135 more
  • 39restaurants 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

  • Yaremche1.4 km in a straight line
  • Mykulychyn6.1 km in a straight line
  • Tatariv11 km in a straight line
  • Delyatyn11 km in a straight line
  • Zarichchia12 km in a straight line
  • Bili Oslavy13 km in a straight line
  • Polianytsia13 km in a straight line
  • Yablunytsia15 km in a straight line

Weather

The weather, month by month.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Afternoon °C-1161318222424191371
Night °C-8-6-338121414940-5
Rain & snow (mm)434557621111241197874644845
Wet days111113131718171212101112
Sun h/day2.43.54.66.06.77.07.57.45.54.02.11.6
Snow on the ground (cm)20191450000041018

Long-term averages 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) for a cell about 55 km wide, with temperatures carried to the height of the falls (526 m) at −6.5 °C per 1,000 m. Not a forecast.

Photos

Through visitors' eyes.

Probiy Yaremche 2016 G1
George Chernilevsky · CC BY-SA 4.0
Probiy Yaremche 2016 G2
George Chernilevsky · CC BY-SA 4.0
Probii 0222
Antanana · 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
202038%164%96%45%130%202%125%59%157%155%41%109%
2021123%148%131%127%112%88%123%112%60%22%78%229%
2022114%72%22%98%40%46%53%89%257%64%134%165%
2023132%145%77%179%48%148%127%106%50%84%179%150%
2024138%115%96%92%46%83%76%55%157%74%86%74%
202573%28%103%130%108%22%134%60%115%88%94%46%

130% wetter than usual 70% drier than usual

Compare with the waterfalls nearby.

Probiy

Ukraine

  • 8 mHeight
  • 11 m³/sAverage flow
  • Apr–JulBest months

Zhenetskyi Huk

Ukraine

  • 15 mHeight
  • —Average flow
  • Apr–JulBest months

See the guide

Bahrovets Waterfall

Ukraine

  • 10 mHeight
  • —Average flow
  • Apr–JulBest months

See the guide

Kaplyvets Waterfall

Ukraine

  • 4 mHeight
  • 11 m³/sAverage flow
  • Apr–JulBest months

See the guide

About these numbers

Names, height, width, riverWikidata (Q12144478) · CC0
Height of the drop© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
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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