Austria 
In numbers.
70m
Height
0.24m³/s
Average flow
estimate
Jun–Sep
Best months
162kW
Water power
estimate
The water at Schleierfall, month by month
It roars from May to September.
The fullest months: from May to September. Below −4 °C on average (January): the falls can partly freeze.
- 0.1 m³/sJan
- 0.1 m³/sFeb
- 0.2 m³/sMar
- 0.2 m³/sApr
- 0.3 m³/sMay
- 0.4 m³/sJun
- 0.5 m³/sJul
- 0.5 m³/sAug
- 0.4 m³/sSep
- 0.2 m³/sOct
- 0.1 m³/sNov
- 0.1 m³/sDec
From about 0.10 m³/s in the lowest month to 0.46 m³/s in the highest. Best months to go, with plenty of water and pleasant days: from June to September.
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 the Dachstein mountains in Styria
Schleierfall is a waterfall in Austria. The water falls 70 m.
Getting there.
- Ramsau am Dachsteinnearest town · 4.9 km in a straight line
- Parking 550 m awaynearest car park in OpenStreetMap, straight line
- Salzburg Airport (SZG)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 66 km in a straight lineCar hire at SZG airport (Salzburg)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From June to Septemberbest 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.
162 kW
About 0.24 m³/s falling 70 m: the power of the water as it drops.
- enough to power about 41 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.
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Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 8 × 8 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.
What is around.
- 6viewpoints
- 15waymarked walking routesDachstein-Tauern-Panoramaweg, Steirischer Landesrundwanderweg, Wanderweg 619 and 12 more
- 5car parks
- —swimming spots
- —picnic sites
- 2toilets
- 10information boards and visitor centres
- 3bus stops within 1 km
- 1other named waterfalls within 4 kmLuserwasserfall
- —caves
- 4campsitesCamping Zirngast, Bike Camping Schladming, Campbert and 1 more
- 327hotels, B&Bs and huts within 6 kmZum Schlosserwirt, Scharlingerhütte, Kemeterhof and 324 more
- 12restaurants 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
- Ramsau am Dachstein4.9 km in a straight line
- Haus5.0 km in a straight line
- Haus im Ennstal5.0 km in a straight line
- Schladming5.4 km in a straight line
- Pruggern12 km in a straight line
- Michaelerberg14 km in a straight line
- Forstau14 km in a straight line
- Gröbming14 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 | 4 | 10 | 15 | 19 | 20 | 20 | 15 | 11 | 5 | 0 |
| Night °C | -8 | -8 | -4 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 2 | -2 | -6 |
| Rain & snow (mm) | 82 | 67 | 81 | 75 | 140 | 166 | 177 | 175 | 132 | 96 | 73 | 76 |
| Wet days | 14 | 13 | 16 | 15 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 19 | 15 | 14 | 14 | 15 |
| Sun h/day | 3.0 | 4.5 | 5.2 | 5.7 | 5.5 | 6.4 | 7.0 | 6.5 | 5.1 | 4.5 | 2.8 | 2.4 |
| Snow on the ground (cm) | 27 | 25 | 18 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 19 |
Long-term averages 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) for a cell about 55 km wide, with temperatures carried to the height of the falls (1,188 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 | 50% | 192% | 83% | 63% | 99% | 124% | 131% | 145% | 140% | 154% | 34% | 103% |
| 2021 | 110% | 55% | 86% | 84% | 120% | 59% | 118% | 122% | 56% | 49% | 129% | 135% |
| 2022 | 84% | 135% | 24% | 125% | 100% | 113% | 88% | 88% | 130% | 138% | 120% | 80% |
| 2023 | 90% | 125% | 134% | 182% | 96% | 64% | 121% | 144% | 35% | 94% | 269% | 216% |
| 2024 | 91% | 106% | 92% | 124% | 107% | 137% | 95% | 73% | 211% | 104% | 36% | 87% |
| 2025 | 51% | 40% | 147% | 112% | 134% | 76% | 152% | 68% | 94% | 94% | 107% | 29% |
130% wetter than usual 70% drier than usual
Compare with the waterfalls nearby.
Schleierfall
Austria
- 70 mHeight
- 0.24 m³/sAverage flow
- Jun–SepBest months
About these numbers
| Names, height, width, river | Wikidata (Q16320804) · 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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