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Stříbrné vodopády

A 6 m drop.

When to go

Obr. 1 Horní vodopád - dolní úsek (první)
Aleš Klempa · CC BY-SA 4.0

In numbers.

6m

Height

0.01m³/s

Average flow

May–Aug

Best months

1kW

Water power

estimate

The water at Stříbrné vodopády, month by month

It roars from March to September.

The fullest months: from March to September.

  1. 50%Jan
  2. 59%Feb
  3. 86%Mar
  4. 84%Apr
  5. 100%May
  6. 100%Jun
  7. 92%Jul
  8. 91%Aug
  9. 85%Sep
  10. 68%Oct
  11. 50%Nov
  12. 34%Dec
high water best months to go

Best months to go, with plenty of water and pleasant days: from May 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 Czech Republic

Stříbrné vodopády is a waterfall in Czechia. The water falls 6 m. It lies within Podyjí National Park.

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How big is it?

How big it really is.

6.0 mStříbrnévodopády1.8 ma person9.0 ma house

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

1 kW

About 0.01 m³/s falling 6 m: the power of the water as it drops.

  • enough to power about 0 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.

Stříbrné vodopády 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 river through the falls
300 m350 m400 mStříbrné vodopády-0.5 km0← 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 129 m in 1.1 km.

What is around.

  • 9viewpointsHallamasskova vyhlídka, Claryho kříž, Vyhlídka zamilovaných and 6 more
  • 17waymarked walking routes[Č] Vranov - Železné schody, [Č] Felicitin okruh, [Ž] Vranov nad Dyjí - okruh and 14 more
  • 23car parks
  • —swimming spots
  • 4picnic sites
  • 5toilets
  • 20information boards and visitor centres
  • 5bus stops within 1 km
  • —other named waterfalls within 4 km
  • —caves
  • 6campsitesKemp u Švestků, Camp Drops, Zeltplatz Waldbad and 3 more
  • 20hotels, B&Bs and huts within 6 kmSPORTCLUB, Penzion U Marka, Volareza - hotel Vranov and 17 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

  • Hardegg6.3 km in a straight line
  • Blížkovice11 km in a straight line
  • Langau11 km in a straight line
  • Weitersfeld14 km in a straight line
  • Jevišovice15 km in a straight line
  • Moravské Budějovice16 km in a straight line
  • Znojmo17 km in a straight line
  • Únanov18 km in a straight line

Weather

The weather, month by month.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Afternoon °C1381519232625201372
Night °C-5-4-138131414941-4
Rain & snow (mm)403141367684828164443836
Wet days10810914141512109910
Sun h/day1.73.54.66.36.77.27.36.85.23.31.31.3
Snow on the ground (cm)171692000001716

Long-term averages 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) for a cell about 55 km wide, with temperatures carried to the height of the falls (381 m) at −6.5 °C per 1,000 m. Not a forecast.

Photos

Through visitors' eyes.

Obr. 2 Prostřední vodopády - hořejší úsek (druhý)
Aleš Klempa · 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
202047%152%64%52%133%217%103%142%150%185%65%106%
2021125%114%52%169%117%94%113%147%32%34%108%108%
202260%58%36%112%96%120%97%133%119%45%87%124%
202388%79%55%280%75%82%61%158%33%81%180%225%
2024116%124%104%92%130%97%107%68%338%75%46%86%
202550%34%102%99%56%104%145%61%169%158%130%67%

130% wetter than usual 70% drier than usual

Compare with the waterfalls nearby.

Stříbrné vodopády

Czechia

  • 6 mHeight
  • 0.01 m³/sAverage flow
  • May–AugBest months

Lohnbachfall

Austria

  • —Height
  • 0.28 m³/sAverage flow
  • May–AugBest months

See the guide

Vojnoměstecký vodopád

Czechia

  • 2 mHeight
  • 0.03 m³/sAverage flow
  • Apr–Jun, AugBest months

See the guide

Myra Falls

Austria

  • —Height
  • 0.48 m³/sAverage flow
  • May–Jun, Aug–SepBest months

See the guide

About these numbers

Names, height, width, riverWikidata (Q47744002) · CC0
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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