Slovakia 
In numbers.
May–Aug
Best months
1,751m
Elevation
The water at Velický vodopád, month by month
It roars from April to July.
The fullest months: from April to July. Below −4 °C on average (from November to March): the falls can partly freeze.
- 29%Jan
- 35%Feb
- 66%Mar
- 88%Apr
- 100%May
- 93%Jun
- 91%Jul
- 74%Aug
- 64%Sep
- 51%Oct
- 44%Nov
- 35%Dec
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.
Velický vodopád is a waterfall in Slovakia.
Getting there.
- Vysoké Tatrynearest town · 7.0 km in a straight line
- Parking 530 m awaynearest car park in OpenStreetMap, straight line
- Poprad-Tatry Airport (TAT)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 12 km in a straight lineCar hire at TAT airport (Poprad)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From May to Augustbest months to go (estimate)
Plan your visit
Stay, explore and get there
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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 148 m in 0.4 km. Here the river runs about 414 m below the lower rim of its valley.
What is around.
- 1viewpoints
- 10waymarked walking routesTatranská magistrála, Via Slovakia (Červený Kláštor - Štrbské pleso) and 8 more
- 1car parks
- —swimming spots
- 1picnic sites
- 1toilets
- 1information boards and visitor centres
- —bus stops within 1 km
- 11other named waterfalls within 4 kmHviezdoslavov vodopád, Veverkov ľadopád, Cyklistický ľad and 8 more
- —caves
- 2campsitesTáborisko na poľane pod Vysokou, Szałasiska
- 85hotels, B&Bs and huts within 6 kmHotel Hubert, Penzión Vila Klára, Villa Krejza and 82 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
- Vysoké Tatry7.0 km in a straight line
- Nová Lesná9.2 km in a straight line
- Svit12 km in a straight line
- Štrba12 km in a straight line
- Ždiar15 km in a straight line
- Poprad15 km in a straight line
- Veľká Lomnica16 km in a straight line
- Spisska Sobota16 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 | -8 | -7 | -3 | 4 | 10 | 13 | 15 | 15 | 10 | 4 | -2 | -7 |
| Night °C | -15 | -14 | -10 | -5 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 1 | -4 | -7 | -13 |
| Rain & snow (mm) | 66 | 64 | 69 | 69 | 119 | 127 | 139 | 102 | 89 | 78 | 70 | 65 |
| Wet days | 14 | 14 | 15 | 15 | 19 | 18 | 18 | 15 | 13 | 13 | 15 | 15 |
| Sun h/day | 1.7 | 2.9 | 4.4 | 5.7 | 6.2 | 6.5 | 6.8 | 7.0 | 5.1 | 3.5 | 1.7 | 1.1 |
| Snow on the ground (cm) | 32 | 37 | 26 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 12 | 21 |
Long-term averages 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) for a cell about 55 km wide, with temperatures carried to the height of the falls (1,751 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 | 48% | 168% | 80% | 35% | 92% | 152% | 108% | 101% | 147% | 213% | 44% | 119% |
| 2021 | 137% | 119% | 75% | 133% | 136% | 39% | 106% | 180% | 85% | 26% | 79% | 107% |
| 2022 | 109% | 118% | 61% | 135% | 54% | 40% | 87% | 77% | 158% | 57% | 75% | 127% |
| 2023 | 204% | 117% | 102% | 120% | 104% | 111% | 75% | 162% | 95% | 146% | 182% | 155% |
| 2024 | 147% | 146% | 104% | 130% | 74% | 108% | 69% | 69% | 142% | 75% | 49% | 50% |
| 2025 | 90% | 35% | 83% | 119% | 89% | 53% | 93% | 69% | 126% | 126% | 176% | 25% |
130% wetter than usual 70% drier than usual
Compare with the waterfalls nearby.
Velický vodopád
Slovakia
- —Height
- —Average flow
- May–AugBest months
About these numbers
| Names, height, width, river | Wikidata (Q3507418) · 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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