Slovakia Ice cave
Dobšinská Ice Cave
1.5 km of galleries.
JoJan · CC BY 3.0
The descent
The entrance, at 850 m.
The real relief above Dobšinská Ice Cave, measured on the Copernicus model every 30 m, and the cave going down at the same vertical scale.
The depth is the one published by those who explored it; the shape of the galleries is a sketch, not a survey. No depth has been published for this cave yet.
1.5km
Galleries
surveyed length (Wikidata)
850m
Entrance altitude
published (Wikidata)
0°C
Inside, all year
the yearly average outside, at the entrance
188m
Rock above
the highest point within 1.5 km
Inside and outside
0 °C inside, all year.
Cold winter air sinks into the cave and stays trapped: the ice lasts all year, even when it is hot outside. In July the afternoon reaches 21 °C at the entrance, 21 °C warmer than inside: take a jacket.
- -2°-9°Jan
- -1°-8°Feb
- 3°-4°Mar
- 10°1°Apr
- 15°6°May
- 19°10°Jun
- 21°12°Jul
- 21°12°Aug
- 16°7°Sep
- 10°2°Oct
- 4°-1°Nov
- -1°-7°Dec
Outside: afternoon and night averages for 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) brought to the altitude of the entrance. Inside: the yearly average, which deep parts of a cave keep. Near the entrance it follows the weather a little.
Cave in Slovakia
Dobšinská Ice Cave is a ice cave in Slovakia. It has 1.5 km of surveyed galleries. The entrance is at 850 m. It has ice all year. It is open to visitors. It lies within Slovak Paradise National Park.
Getting there.
- Show cave: open to visitorsHours in OpenStreetMap: May 16-31,Sep 01-15 Tu-Su 09:30,11:00,12:30,14:00; Jun-Aug T · ticket requiredOfficial site↗
- Dobšinánearest town · 7.1 km in a straight line
- Parking 630 m awaynearest car park in OpenStreetMap, straight line
- Viewpointsnearest viewpoint · 2.1 km from the entrance
- Poprad-Tatry Airport (TAT)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 23 km in a straight lineCar hire at TAT airport (Poprad)Discover Cars · sponsored link↗
Plan the visit
Guided tours, a bed nearby, a car.
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From above.
The ground above the cave, with the relief shaded, the line of the section and what people have mapped around the entrance.
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1.5 km
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6.0 × 6.0 km, north up. The line is the section above. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Around the entrance.
- 7other cave entrances within 3 kmDobšinská ľadová jaskyňa, Zelená jaskyňa, Jaskyňa Duča and 4 more
- 5springs within 2 kmPod Hanesovou 1 and 4 more
- 1sinkholes within 3 kmPrepadlisko Duča
- 5viewpoints within 3 km
- 19marked hiking routes within 3 kmEuropean long distance path E8 - part Slovakia, Po stopách baníctva v Dobšinej, Stratenský kaňon and 16 more
- 5car parks within 2 km
- 54information boards and visitor centres within 3 km
- 3bus stops within 2 km
- 1campsites within 8 kmDedinky
- 51hotels and guesthouses within 8 kmŠafran, Ranč pod Ostrou skalou, Rita and 48 more
- 6restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- caving clubs and spots within 15 km
- climbing crags within 3 km
- named waterfalls within 4 km
Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit, around the entrance. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet. © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).
Towns nearby
- Dobšiná7.1 km in a straight line
- Telgárt8.7 km in a straight line
- Hranovnica14 km in a straight line
- Spišský Štiavnik14 km in a straight line
- Gánovce18 km in a straight line
- Smižany19 km in a straight line
- Spišská Nová Ves21 km in a straight line
- Poprad22 km in a straight line
In our other atlases
What else is around Dobšinská Ice Cave.
The river at the entrance, the waterfalls, the lakes, the mountains and volcanoes above, the canyons, beaches and islands nearby — from our other atlases.
Lakeyas1 lakes within 10 km
Peakyas9 mountains within 10 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, NOAA, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.
Month by month
The weather outside, at the entrance.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Afternoon | -2 | -1 | 3 | 10 | 15 | 19 | 21 | 21 | 16 | 10 | 4 | -1 |
| Afternoon | -2 | -1 | 3 | 10 | 15 | 19 | 21 | 21 | 16 | 10 | 4 | -1 |
| Night | -9 | -8 | -4 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 12 | 12 | 7 | 2 | -1 | -7 |
| Rain (mm) | 66 | 64 | 69 | 69 | 119 | 127 | 139 | 102 | 89 | 78 | 70 | 65 |
| Rainy days | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sun hours/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 |
| Afternoon | Afternoon | Night | Rain (mm) | Sun hours/day | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | -2 | -2 | -9 | 66 | 1.7 |
| Feb | -1 | -1 | -8 | 64 | 2.9 |
| Mar | 3 | 3 | -4 | 69 | 4.4 |
| Apr | 10 | 10 | 1 | 69 | 5.7 |
| May | 15 | 15 | 6 | 119 | 6.2 |
| Jun | 19 | 19 | 10 | 127 | 6.5 |
| Jul | 21 | 21 | 12 | 139 | 6.8 |
| Aug | 21 | 21 | 12 | 102 | 7.0 |
| Sep | 16 | 16 | 7 | 89 | 5.1 |
| Oct | 10 | 10 | 2 | 78 | 3.5 |
| Nov | 4 | 4 | -1 | 70 | 1.7 |
| Dec | -1 | -1 | -7 | 65 | 1.1 |
Averages 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) for a cell about 55 km wide, brought to the altitude of the entrance (850 m) with the standard lapse rate. Not a forecast.
Photographs
Inside and around.
Caves nearby.
Dobšinská Ice Cave
Slovakia
- —Depth
- 1.5 kmGalleries
- 850 mEntrance altitude
- 0 °CInside, all year
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- 9 °CInside, all year
Where these figures come from
| Name, type, published depth and length, visitors | Wikidata (Q284340) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| The relief above, the entrance altitude, the section and the 3D model | Copernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA |
| Climate | NASA POWER, 1991–2020 |
| Entrances, springs, sinkholes, opening hours and what is around | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Rivers, waterfalls, lakes, mountains, canyons, beaches and islands nearby | Coastya, Lakeyas, Peakyas, Cascadyas, Islandyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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