Ukraine 
In numbers.
14m
Height
Apr–Jul
Best months
797m
Elevation
The water at Shypit, month by month
It roars from March to July.
The fullest months: from March to July. Below −4 °C on average (from December to February): the falls can partly freeze.
- 57%Jan
- 72%Feb
- 93%Mar
- 92%Apr
- 100%May
- 90%Jun
- 83%Jul
- 62%Aug
- 60%Sep
- 62%Oct
- 58%Nov
- 51%Dec
Best months to go, with plenty of water and pleasant days: from April to July.
Estimate from rain, snowmelt and evaporation month by month (NASA POWER, 1991–2020) around the falls. Dams upstream can change the real flow.
Hydrological natural monument in Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine
Shypit is a waterfall in Ukraine. The water falls 14 m.
Getting there.
- Pylypetsnearest town · 1.0 km in a straight line
- Parking 390 m awaynearest car park in OpenStreetMap, straight line
- Satu Mare International Airport (SUJ)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 110 km in a straight lineCar hire at IFO airport (Ivano-Frankivsk)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From April to Julybest 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.
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 420 m in 3.5 km. Here the river runs about 87 m below the lower rim of its valley.
What is around.
- 3viewpoints
- 5waymarked walking routesЗакарпатський туристичний шлях, Воловецький перевал - Вовчий, Зелений Пилипець - Воловець and 2 more
- 17car parks
- —swimming spots
- 10picnic sites
- 4toilets
- 4information boards and visitor centres
- —bus stops within 1 km
- 2other named waterfalls within 4 kmВодоспад Шипіт Верхній, Водоспад Пилипчик
- —caves
- 41campsitesПерша галявина and 40 more
- 59hotels, B&Bs and huts within 6 kmГорянин, Магура, Гостинна Садиба and 56 more
- 11restaurants 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
- Pylypets1.0 km in a straight line
- Huklyvyi6.4 km in a straight line
- Izky6.9 km in a straight line
- Nyzhnii Studenyi8.6 km in a straight line
- Skotarske8.7 km in a straight line
- Volovets8.9 km in a straight line
- Holiatyn12 km in a straight line
- Verkhni Vorota14 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 | -4 | -2 | 4 | 12 | 17 | 20 | 23 | 23 | 18 | 11 | 4 | -2 |
| Night °C | -10 | -9 | -5 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 12 | 12 | 7 | 2 | -2 | -8 |
| Rain & snow (mm) | 62 | 56 | 63 | 54 | 98 | 98 | 100 | 71 | 70 | 69 | 64 | 65 |
| Wet days | 14 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 16 | 16 | 15 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 14 |
| Sun h/day | 1.4 | 2.8 | 4.3 | 6.2 | 7.0 | 7.6 | 7.8 | 8.1 | 5.7 | 3.8 | 2.0 | 0.9 |
| Snow on the ground (cm) | 22 | 20 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 18 |
Long-term averages 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) for a cell about 55 km wide, with temperatures carried to the height of the falls (797 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 | 52% | 155% | 88% | 50% | 108% | 201% | 124% | 86% | 156% | 179% | 38% | 103% |
| 2021 | 153% | 168% | 78% | 144% | 104% | 50% | 128% | 133% | 66% | 16% | 105% | 178% |
| 2022 | 106% | 86% | 28% | 147% | 35% | 32% | 58% | 53% | 254% | 54% | 77% | 167% |
| 2023 | 164% | 111% | 112% | 130% | 49% | 134% | 115% | 110% | 67% | 112% | 212% | 174% |
| 2024 | 158% | 128% | 79% | 105% | 46% | 112% | 56% | 51% | 139% | 84% | 77% | 38% |
| 2025 | 87% | 28% | 150% | 92% | 104% | 23% | 118% | 71% | 130% | 69% | 115% | 23% |
130% wetter than usual 70% drier than usual
Compare with the waterfalls nearby.
Shypit
Ukraine
- 14 mHeight
- —Average flow
- Apr–JulBest months
About these numbers
| Names, height, width, river | Wikidata (Q4524175) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| 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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