Czechia 
In numbers.
0.02m³/s
Average flow
Apr–Jul
Best months
386m
Elevation
The water at Žabnický vodopád, month by month
It roars from March to July and in September.
The fullest months: from March to July and September.
- 53%Jan
- 67%Feb
- 89%Mar
- 91%Apr
- 100%May
- 92%Jun
- 83%Jul
- 73%Aug
- 78%Sep
- 72%Oct
- 57%Nov
- 38%Dec
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.
Žabnický vodopád is a waterfall on the Žabník, in Czechia.
Getting there.
- Lipník nad Bečvounearest town · 6.8 km in a straight line
- Parking 1,550 m awaynearest car park in OpenStreetMap, straight line
- Leoš Janáček Airport Ostrava (OSR)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 36 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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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 234 m in 3.1 km.
What is around.
- 3viewpointsVyhlídka
- 6waymarked walking routes[M] Hranice (žst.) - Lipník nad Bečvou (sady) and 5 more
- 3car parks
- —swimming spots
- 3picnic sites
- —toilets
- 4information boards and visitor centres
- —bus stops within 1 km
- —other named waterfalls within 4 km
- —caves
- —campsites
- 6hotels, B&Bs and huts within 6 kmHotel Lípa, Penzion U Grygarů, Penzion Fantasy and 3 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
- Lipník nad Bečvou6.8 km in a straight line
- Potštát6.9 km in a straight line
- Hranice7.0 km in a straight line
- Dolní Újezd8.6 km in a straight line
- Osek nad Bečvou11 km in a straight line
- Velký Újezd12 km in a straight line
- Bělotín12 km in a straight line
- Radslavice14 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 | -1 | 2 | 7 | 14 | 18 | 23 | 25 | 25 | 20 | 13 | 6 | 1 |
| Night °C | -6 | -5 | -2 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 14 | 14 | 9 | 4 | 1 | -4 |
| Rain & snow (mm) | 45 | 40 | 43 | 43 | 79 | 82 | 82 | 72 | 69 | 54 | 45 | 45 |
| Wet days | 10 | 10 | 11 | 9 | 14 | 14 | 15 | 11 | 11 | 9 | 10 | 11 |
| Sun h/day | 1.3 | 2.8 | 4.4 | 6.4 | 6.8 | 7.2 | 7.3 | 7.0 | 5.2 | 3.2 | 1.2 | 0.9 |
| Snow on the ground (cm) | 19 | 17 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 17 |
Long-term averages 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) for a cell about 55 km wide, with temperatures carried to the height of the falls (386 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 | 55% | 161% | 79% | 21% | 129% | 202% | 97% | 138% | 165% | 278% | 62% | 106% |
| 2021 | 99% | 115% | 70% | 113% | 126% | 56% | 87% | 211% | 47% | 35% | 123% | 88% |
| 2022 | 71% | 86% | 50% | 119% | 74% | 101% | 107% | 124% | 136% | 34% | 45% | 145% |
| 2023 | 119% | 82% | 68% | 144% | 93% | 68% | 81% | 182% | 40% | 113% | 185% | 166% |
| 2024 | 141% | 143% | 93% | 140% | 105% | 140% | 67% | 56% | 290% | 74% | 67% | 58% |
| 2025 | 79% | 27% | 101% | 82% | 82% | 83% | 146% | 55% | 145% | 91% | 159% | 38% |
130% wetter than usual 70% drier than usual
Compare with the waterfalls nearby.
Žabnický vodopád
Czechia
- —Height
- 0.02 m³/sAverage flow
- Apr–JulBest months
About these numbers
| Names, height, width, river | Wikidata (Q106533599) · 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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