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Tauplitzer Wasserfall

A 30 m drop.

When to go

Bad Mitterndorf - Tauplitzer Wasserfall
C.Stadler/Bwag · CC BY-SA 4.0

In numbers.

30m

Height

OpenStreetMap

0.26m³/s

Average flow

estimate

Jun–Sep

Best months

77kW

Water power

estimate

The water at Tauplitzer Wasserfall, month by month

It roars from May to September.

The fullest months: from May to September.

  1. 0.1 m³/sJan
  2. 0.2 m³/sFeb
  3. 0.2 m³/sMar
  4. 0.3 m³/sApr
  5. 0.4 m³/sMay
  6. 0.5 m³/sJun
  7. 0.5 m³/sJul
  8. 0.5 m³/sAug
  9. 0.4 m³/sSep
  10. 0.3 m³/sOct
  11. 0.1 m³/sNov
  12. 0.1 m³/sDec
high water best months to go

From about 0.12 m³/s in the lowest month to 0.48 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.

Tauplitzer Wasserfall is a waterfall in Austria. The water falls 30 m.

Getting there.

  • Tauplitznearest town · 2.4 km in a straight line
  • Parking 320 m awaynearest car park in OpenStreetMap, straight line
  • Linz-Hörsching Airport (LNZ)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 74 km in a straight lineCar hire at LNZ airport (Linz)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.

30 mTauplitzerWasserfall1.8 ma person9.0 ma house56 mTower of Pisa

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

77 kW

About 0.26 m³/s falling 30 m: the power of the water as it drops.

  • enough to power about 19 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.

Tauplitzer Wasserfall 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 Sagtümpelbach through the falls
940 m960 m980 mTauplitzer Wasserfall-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 47 m in 0.6 km.

What is around.

  • 3viewpoints
  • 7waymarked walking routesWanderweg 297, Wanderweg 275, Wanderweg 216 and 4 more
  • 28car parks
  • —swimming spots
  • 3picnic sites
  • 4toilets
  • 5information boards and visitor centres
  • 1bus stops within 1 km
  • —other named waterfalls within 4 km
  • —caves
  • 1campsitesCamping Auszeit
  • 39hotels, B&Bs and huts within 6 kmDer Hechl, Fewo Tauplitz, Haus Winkler and 36 more
  • 13restaurants 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

  • Tauplitz2.4 km in a straight line
  • Stainach7.6 km in a straight line
  • Mitterndorf im Steirischen Salzkammergut7.8 km in a straight line
  • Wörschach9.5 km in a straight line
  • Falkenburg9.5 km in a straight line
  • Irdning9.6 km in a straight line
  • Sankt Martin am Grimming11 km in a straight line
  • Aigen im Ennstal11 km in a straight line

Weather

The weather, month by month.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Afternoon °C1261216202222171372
Night °C-7-6-226101212740-5
Rain & snow (mm)82678175140166177175132967376
Wet days141316152021221915141415
Sun h/day3.04.55.25.75.56.47.06.55.14.52.82.4
Snow on the ground (cm)27251884100361219

Long-term averages 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) for a cell about 55 km wide, with temperatures carried to the height of the falls (944 m) at −6.5 °C per 1,000 m. Not a forecast.

Photos

Through visitors' eyes.

Tauplitzer Wasserfall Bad Mitterndorf 20221023a
Tigerente · CC BY-SA 4.0
Tauplitzer Wasserfall Bad Mitterndorf 20221023b
Tigerente · 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
202050%192%83%63%99%124%131%145%140%154%34%103%
2021110%55%86%84%120%59%118%122%56%49%129%135%
202284%135%24%125%100%113%88%88%130%138%120%80%
202390%125%134%182%96%64%121%144%35%94%269%216%
202491%106%92%124%107%137%95%73%211%104%36%87%
202551%40%147%112%134%76%152%68%94%94%107%29%

130% wetter than usual 70% drier than usual

Compare with the waterfalls nearby.

Tauplitzer Wasserfall

Austria

  • 30 mHeight
  • 0.26 m³/sAverage flow
  • Jun–SepBest months

Strombodingwasserfall

Austria

  • —Height
  • 4.5 m³/sAverage flow
  • Jun–SepBest months

See the guide

Gradenbachfall

Austria

  • —Height
  • 0.52 m³/sAverage flow
  • Jun–SepBest months

See the guide

Luserfall

Austria

  • —Height
  • 0.20 m³/sAverage flow
  • Jun–SepBest months

See the guide

About these numbers

Names, height, width, riverWikidata (Q111549458) · 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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