Czechia Waterfall

Vodopády Bílé Opavy

A 8 m drop on the Bílá Opava.

When to go

Martin Vavřík · Public domain

In numbers.

Height

0.09m³/s

Average flow

Apr–Jul

Best months

7kW

Water power

estimate

The water at Vodopády Bílé Opavy, month by month

It roars from March to September.

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

43%Jan
57%Feb
78%Mar
86%Apr
100%May
95%Jun
87%Jul
76%Aug
76%Sep
67%Oct
51%Nov
33%Dec

high water best months to go may freeze

Best months to go, with plenty of water and pleasant days: from April to July.

Estimate from rain, snowmelt and evaporation month by month (NASA POWER, 1991–2020) around the falls. Dams upstream can change the real flow.

Vodopády Bílé Opavy is a waterfall on the Bílá Opava, in Czechia. The water falls 8 m. It lies within Praděd.

Getting there.

Vrbno pod Pradědemnearest town · 10 km in a straight line
Parking 1,460 m awaynearest car park in OpenStreetMap, straight line
Leoš Janáček Airport Ostrava (OSR)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 74 km in a straight lineCar hire at OSR airport (Mošnov)Discover Cars · Affiliate link
From April to Julybest months to go (estimate)

Plan your visit

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How big is it?

How big it really is.

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

7 kW

About 0.09 m³/s falling 8 m: the power of the water as it drops.

enough to power about 2 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.

Vodopády Bílé Opavy 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 Bílá Opava 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 313 m in 3.6 km. Here the river runs about 108 m below the lower rim of its valley.

What is around.

—viewpoints
13waymarked walking routes[M] Františkov - Praděd, Internationaler Bergwanderweg Eisenach–Budapest (Tschechien Ost), European long distance path E3 - part Czech Republic, Morava and 10 more
7car parks
—swimming spots
2picnic sites
3toilets
23information boards and visitor centres
—bus stops within 1 km
2other named waterfalls within 4 kmUmělý vodopád, Vysoký vodopád
—caves
—campsites
26hotels, B&Bs and huts within 6 kmHvezda, Hotel Praděd – Vysílač, Barborka and 23 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

Vrbno pod Pradědem10 km in a straight line
Bělá pod Pradědem10 km in a straight line
Světlá Hora11 km in a straight line
Loučná nad Desnou12 km in a straight line
Sobotín14 km in a straight line
Rýmařov16 km in a straight line
Velké Losiny16 km in a straight line
Petrov nad Desnou17 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	-6	-3	2	8	13	17	20	20	14	8	2	-4
Night °C	-11	-10	-7	-2	3	7	9	8	4	-1	-4	-9
Rain & snow (mm)	42	38	43	45	82	86	86	74	68	52	43	41
Wet days	11	10	12	10	14	14	15	12	11	10	10	11
Sun h/day	1.4	2.6	3.9	6.1	6.7	6.8	6.9	6.6	5.0	3.2	1.4	1.0
Snow on the ground (cm)	19	17	11	3	0	0	0	0	0	2	7	16

Long-term averages 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) for a cell about 55 km wide, with temperatures carried to the height of the falls (1,135 m) at −6.5 °C per 1,000 m. Not a forecast.

Photos

Through visitors' eyes.

Waterfalls Bílá Opava — Oleksandr Dede · CC BY-SA 4.0

Velký vodopád v Údolí Bílé Opavy — Ladislav Boháč · CC BY-SA 4.0

Vodopády Bílé Opavy (1) — Vlach Pavel · 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	54%	177%	80%	17%	120%	230%	93%	146%	157%	261%	65%	92%
2021	109%	119%	72%	115%	136%	60%	89%	191%	47%	37%	116%	88%
2022	70%	92%	70%	124%	76%	104%	102%	156%	126%	36%	48%	139%
2023	109%	92%	71%	158%	78%	68%	75%	192%	45%	116%	199%	157%
2024	125%	154%	88%	123%	94%	133%	80%	74%	319%	70%	71%	61%
2025	80%	21%	96%	73%	88%	80%	140%	46%	141%	95%	162%	39%

130% wetter than usual 70% drier than usual

Compare with the waterfalls nearby.

Vodopády Bílé Opavy

Czechia

8 mHeight
0.09 m³/sAverage flow
Apr–JulBest months

Páteční vodopád

Czechia

—Height
0.02 m³/sAverage flow
Apr–JulBest months

See the guide

Rešovské vodopády

Czechia

10 mHeight
0.20 m³/sAverage flow
Apr–JulBest months

See the guide

Wilczki Falls

Poland

22 mHeight
0.42 m³/sAverage flow
Apr–JulBest months

See the guide

About these numbers

Names, height, width, river	Wikidata (Q11924944) · 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.