Austria Waterfall

Umbal falls

One of the waterfalls of Austria.

When to go

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In numbers.

1.1m³/s

Average flow

estimate

May–Aug

Best months

1,579m

Elevation

The water at Umbal falls, month by month

It roars from April to September.

The fullest months: from April to September, with the snowmelt. The thinnest: February. Below −4 °C on average (from December to February): the falls can partly freeze.

0.4 m³/sJan
0.3 m³/sFeb
1.1 m³/sMar
1.8 m³/sApr
2.1 m³/sMay
2.3 m³/sJun
2.4 m³/sJul
2.4 m³/sAug
1.8 m³/sSep
1.4 m³/sOct
1.1 m³/sNov
0.7 m³/sDec

high water best months to go may freeze

From about 0.34 m³/s in the lowest month to 2.4 m³/s in the highest. Best months to go, with plenty of water and pleasant days: from May to August.

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

Umbal falls is a waterfall in Austria.

Getting there.

Prägratennearest town · 6.7 km in a straight line
Parking 1,680 m awaynearest car park in OpenStreetMap, straight line
Innsbruck Airport (INN)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 77 km in a straight lineCar hire at INN airport (Innsbruck)Discover Cars · Affiliate link
From May to Augustbest months to go (estimate)

Plan your visit

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Seen from the sky.

8 × 8 km of cloud-free satellite image, with what OpenStreetMap knows around the falls.

The Isel through the falls

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

Around the falls the river drops 256 m in 2.6 km. Here the river runs about 519 m below the lower rim of its valley.

What is around.

7viewpointsAussichtskanzel Großbachfall and 6 more
14waymarked walking routesWasserschaupfad Umbalfälle, Wanderweg 911, Wanderweg 90 and 11 more
2car parks
—swimming spots
1picnic sites
1toilets
17information boards and visitor centres
—bus stops within 1 km
2other named waterfalls within 4 kmGroßbachfall, Kleinbachfall
1caves
1campsitesCamping Bergkristall
44hotels, B&Bs and huts within 6 kmStockachalm, Pension Bergwelt, Gästehaus Obermairhof and 41 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

Prägraten6.7 km in a straight line
Sankt Jakob in Defereggen10 km in a straight line
Virgen12 km in a straight line
Sankt Veit in Defereggen14 km in a straight line
Predoi15 km in a straight line
Matrei in Osttirol18 km in a straight line
Hopfgarten in Defereggen21 km in a straight line
San Martino23 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	-2	-2	2	8	13	17	19	18	14	10	4	-1
Night °C	-11	-11	-6	-2	3	7	9	8	4	1	-4	-9
Rain & snow (mm)	62	54	72	82	128	151	167	171	118	101	87	68
Wet days	13	12	15	16	22	23	23	21	16	14	14	13
Sun h/day	3.1	4.5	5.2	5.7	5.5	6.4	7.0	6.5	5.1	4.6	2.8	2.5
Snow on the ground (cm)	33	39	29	14	7	2	1	1	5	9	15	24

Long-term averages 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) for a cell about 55 km wide, with temperatures carried to the height of the falls (1,579 m) at −6.5 °C per 1,000 m. Not a forecast.

Photos

Through visitors' eyes.

2017-07-19 (116) Umbal falls at Prägraten am Großvenediger, Austria — GT1976 · CC BY-SA 4.0

2017-07-19 (128) Cirsium eriophorum (Woolly Thistle) at Umbal falls — GT1976 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Umbaltal2 — Tesla Delacroix · 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.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2020	43%	118%	110%	63%	102%	135%	129%	175%	135%	189%	22%	282%
2021	151%	77%	58%	66%	157%	76%	126%	115%	65%	53%	141%	89%
2022	69%	97%	16%	96%	96%	101%	87%	96%	114%	70%	92%	83%
2023	84%	59%	110%	157%	150%	74%	144%	131%	45%	139%	177%	188%
2024	105%	147%	135%	117%	155%	150%	105%	86%	196%	145%	17%	74%
2025	85%	54%	136%	79%	141%	94%	144%	91%	115%	82%	147%	46%

130% wetter than usual 70% drier than usual

Compare with the waterfalls nearby.

Umbal falls

Austria

—Height
1.1 m³/sAverage flow
May–AugBest months

Krimml Waterfalls

Austria

380 mHeight
2.0 m³/sAverage flow
May–AugBest months

See the guide

Sulzbachfall

Austria

—Height
0.85 m³/sAverage flow
May–AugBest months

See the guide

Leiterfall

Austria

—Height
0.52 m³/sAverage flow
May–AugBest months

See the guide

About these numbers

Names, height, width, river	Wikidata (Q1548887) · 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.