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Shypun Waterfall

A 4 m drop.

When to go

Водоспад Шипун 04
Gudyma s · CC BY-SA 3.0

In numbers.

4m

Height

1.7m³/s

Average flow

estimate

Apr–Jul

Best months

68kW

Water power

estimate

The water at Shypun Waterfall, month by month

It roars from April to July.

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

  1. 0.8 m³/sJan
  2. 1.6 m³/sFeb
  3. 2.9 m³/sMar
  4. 3.6 m³/sApr
  5. 4.6 m³/sMay
  6. 4.3 m³/sJun
  7. 3.8 m³/sJul
  8. 2.2 m³/sAug
  9. 1.9 m³/sSep
  10. 1.6 m³/sOct
  11. 1.0 m³/sNov
  12. 0.5 m³/sDec
high water best months to go may freeze

From about 0.51 m³/s in the lowest month to 4.6 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.

Shypun Waterfall is a waterfall in Ukraine. The water falls 4 m.

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How big is it?

How big it really is.

4.0 mShypunWaterfall1.8 ma person9.0 ma house

Height of the drop from Wikidata. Buildings and the person are drawn at the same scale.

68 kW

About 1.7 m³/s falling 4 m: the power of the water as it drops.

  • enough to power about 17 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.

Shypun Waterfall 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 Озерянка through the falls
700 m725 m750 m775 mShypun Waterfall-1.5 km-1 km-0.5 km0+0.5 km+1 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 54 m in 2.8 km. Here the river runs about 274 m below the lower rim of its valley.

What is around.

  • —viewpoints
  • 3waymarked walking routesЗакарпатський туристичний шлях, Терсовата-Негровець, Синевирська Поляна - Терсовата
  • 2car parks
  • —swimming spots
  • 8picnic sites
  • —toilets
  • —information boards and visitor centres
  • —bus stops within 1 km
  • 1other named waterfalls within 4 kmКам'янка
  • —caves
  • 25campsitesМале місце для наметів, 3-5 наметів and 23 more
  • 12hotels, B&Bs and huts within 6 kmКам'янка, Home stay, Гостинний Двір "Синевир" and 9 more
  • 1restaurants 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

  • Synevyrska Poliana5.5 km in a straight line
  • Synevyr5.9 km in a straight line
  • Nehrovets9.4 km in a straight line
  • Horb10 km in a straight line
  • Mizhhirya12 km in a straight line
  • Kolochava13 km in a straight line
  • Zaperedillia13 km in a straight line
  • Soymy15 km in a straight line

Weather

The weather, month by month.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Afternoon °C-3-14121720222318115-1
Night °C-9-8-41711131282-1-7
Rain & snow (mm)565465611111171137777705958
Wet days141313141818161212121214
Sun h/day1.42.84.36.27.07.67.88.15.73.82.00.9
Snow on the ground (cm)23221650000041018

Long-term averages 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) for a cell about 55 km wide, with temperatures carried to the height of the falls (739 m) at −6.5 °C per 1,000 m. Not a forecast.

Photos

Through visitors' eyes.

Водоспад Шипун 02
Gudyma s · CC BY-SA 3.0
Водоспад Шипун 001
Anika Levchuk · CC BY-SA 4.0
Водоспад Шипун 002
Anika Levchuk · 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.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
202045%154%88%47%125%207%124%72%157%165%38%102%
2021135%158%103%136%110%74%134%122%63%20%89%204%
2022117%79%21%122%39%41%55%79%254%60%99%167%
2023143%128%90%153%46%134%118%106%54%97%190%169%
2024148%118%88%97%43%95%69%54%136%77%80%51%
202583%25%123%111%104%22%133%66%117%77%102%34%

130% wetter than usual 70% drier than usual

Compare with the waterfalls nearby.

Shypun Waterfall

Ukraine

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

Kamianka Waterfall (Synevyr)

Ukraine

  • 6 mHeight
  • 1.3 m³/sAverage flow
  • Apr–JulBest months

See the guide

Shypit

Ukraine

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

See the guide

Pravych Waterfall

Ukraine

  • 3 mHeight
  • 1.8 m³/sAverage flow
  • Apr–JulBest months

See the guide

About these numbers

Names, height, width, riverWikidata (Q120377387) · CC0
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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