Pakistan Waterfall

Hanna-Urak Waterfall

One of the waterfalls of Pakistan.

When to go

Zakirchum · CC BY 3.0

In numbers.

Feb–Apr

Best months

1,911m

Elevation

The water at Hanna-Urak Waterfall, month by month

It roars from February to March.

The fullest months: from February to March. The thinnest: from May to December.

34%Jan
81%Feb
100%Mar
57%Apr
19%May
5%Jun
2%Jul
5%Aug
3%Sep
3%Oct
9%Nov
14%Dec

high water best months to go

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

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

Waterfall in Balochistan, Pakistan

Hanna-Urak Waterfall is a waterfall in Pakistan.

Getting there.

Kot Malik Barkhurdarnearest town · 13 km in a straight line
Parking 450 m awaynearest car park in OpenStreetMap, straight line
Quetta International Airport (UET)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 16 km in a straight lineCar hire in IslamabadDiscover Cars · Affiliate link
From February to Aprilbest 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.

Hanna-Urak Waterfall seen from above (Sentinel-2)

N 2 km

Parking

Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 8 × 8 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

What is around.

—viewpoints
—waymarked walking routes
1car parks
—swimming spots
—picnic sites
—toilets
—information boards and visitor centres
—bus stops within 1 km
—other named waterfalls within 4 km
—caves
—campsites
—hotels, B&Bs and huts within 6 km
—restaurants 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

Kot Malik Barkhurdar13 km in a straight line
Quetta13 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	9	12	17	23	29	33	34	32	29	23	16	12
Night °C	-3	-1	3	9	14	17	19	18	14	8	2	-2
Rain & snow (mm)	27	38	34	17	6	9	7	13	4	7	12	14
Wet days	5	4	4	3	1	1	2	2	1	0	1	2
Sun h/day	7.9	8.2	9.8	11.1	12.6	13.7	12.6	12.0	11.9	11.1	9.5	8.7
Snow on the ground (cm)	5	5	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2

Long-term averages 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) for a cell about 55 km wide, with temperatures carried to the height of the falls (1,911 m) at −6.5 °C per 1,000 m. Not a forecast.

Photos

Through visitors' eyes.

Hanna Lake - Urak Valley — Shamoon Altaf · 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	272%	347%	492%	296%	331%	48%	79%	457%	—	555%	251%	75%
2021	0%	4%	158%	27%	226%	6%	214%	4,265%	—	13%	0%	31%
2022	1,055%	13%	23%	4%	5%	110%	2,179%	1,809%	—	0%	28%	122%
2023	454%	2%	325%	87%	205%	97%	611%	42%	—	175%	64%	29%
2024	151%	177%	154%	721%	90%	39%	449%	587%	—	39%	295%	2%
2025	54%	112%	74%	0%	40%	45%	314%	86%	—	0%	0%	254%

130% wetter than usual 70% drier than usual

About these numbers

Names, height, width, river	Wikidata (Q55613362) · 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.