Azerbaijan 
In numbers.
120m
Height
Mar–Jun
Best months
829m
Elevation
The water at Yeddi gozel Waterfall, month by month
It roars from March to May.
The fullest months: from March to May, with the snowmelt. The thinnest: from July to September and from December to January.
- 17%Jan
- 40%Feb
- 79%Mar
- 100%Apr
- 89%May
- 51%Jun
- 22%Jul
- 11%Aug
- 24%Sep
- 36%Oct
- 28%Nov
- 12%Dec
Best months to go, with plenty of water and pleasant days: from March to June.
Estimate from rain, snowmelt and evaporation month by month (NASA POWER, 1991–2020) around the falls. Dams upstream can change the real flow.
Yeddi gozel Waterfall is a waterfall in Azerbaijan. The water falls 120 m.
Getting there.
- Qabalanearest town · 5.5 km in a straight line
- Parking 2,420 m awaynearest car park in OpenStreetMap, straight line
- Gabala International Airport (GBB)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 24 km in a straight lineCar hire at GBB airport (Gabala)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From March to Junebest 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.
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.
What is around.
- —viewpoints
- —waymarked walking routes
- 1car parks
- —swimming spots
- —picnic sites
- —toilets
- —information boards and visitor centres
- —bus stops within 1 km
- 1other named waterfalls within 4 km7 Yeddi Gözəl Şəlaləsi
- —caves
- 2campsites
- 38hotels, B&Bs and huts within 6 kmQəbələ Otel, Karvan, Qafqaz Riverside Hotel Tufan Dağ Xizək and 35 more
- 11restaurants 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
- Qabala5.5 km in a straight line
- Gamzali9.4 km in a straight line
- Bum12 km in a straight line
- Tikanlı14 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 | 7 | 12 | 17 | 23 | 28 | 30 | 30 | 25 | 18 | 11 | 7 |
| Night °C | -3 | -3 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 16 | 18 | 18 | 14 | 8 | 2 | -2 |
| Rain & snow (mm) | 17 | 24 | 29 | 33 | 35 | 28 | 19 | 17 | 30 | 34 | 27 | 17 |
| Wet days | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 4 |
| Sun h/day | 2.6 | 3.3 | 3.9 | 5.3 | 6.9 | 8.4 | 8.2 | 7.7 | 5.9 | 4.1 | 3.2 | 2.8 |
| Snow on the ground (cm) | 17 | 17 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 15 |
Long-term averages 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) for a cell about 55 km wide, with temperatures carried to the height of the falls (829 m) at −6.5 °C per 1,000 m. Not a forecast.
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 | 111% | 124% | 84% | 145% | 131% | 29% | 368% | 344% | 47% | 52% | 264% | 226% |
| 2021 | 147% | 123% | 187% | 15% | 169% | 81% | 248% | 71% | 226% | 176% | 74% | 160% |
| 2022 | 102% | 46% | 144% | 37% | 257% | 149% | 103% | 45% | 103% | 104% | 76% | 125% |
| 2023 | 89% | 102% | 41% | 79% | 217% | 255% | 291% | 153% | 229% | 115% | 70% | 204% |
| 2024 | 180% | 73% | 198% | 52% | 235% | 428% | 353% | 80% | 106% | 154% | 118% | 59% |
| 2025 | 38% | 120% | 173% | 315% | 128% | 149% | 27% | 112% | 260% | 67% | 4% | 143% |
130% wetter than usual 70% drier than usual
Compare with the waterfalls nearby.
Yeddi gozel Waterfall
Azerbaijan
- 120 mHeight
- —Average flow
- Mar–JunBest months
About these numbers
| Names, height, width, river | Wikidata (Q12847934) · 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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