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Australia Australia Cave

Wombeyan Caves

14 °C inside, all year.

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Maksym Kozlenko · CC BY-SA 4.0

The descent

The entrance, at 727 m.

The real relief above Wombeyan Caves, measured on the Copernicus model every 30 m, and the cave going down at the same vertical scale.

depth not publishedEntrance819 m1.0 kmvertical × 6.6depth not publishedEntrance819 m1.0 kmvertical × 14.3

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.

727m

Entrance altitude

published (Wikidata)

14°C

Inside, all year

the yearly average outside, at the entrance

131m

Rock above

the highest point within 1.5 km

Inside and outside

14 °C inside, all year.

Deep inside, a cave keeps the average temperature of the year outside: about 14 °C here, in January and in August. In January the afternoon reaches 29 °C at the entrance, 16 °C warmer than inside: take a jacket. The best months to escape the heat are in January.

outside, at the entrance (727 m)inside
  1. 29°14°Jan
  2. 26°13°Feb
  3. 23°11°Mar
  4. 19°8°Apr
  5. 14°5°May
  6. 11°3°Jun
  7. 10°2°Jul
  8. 12°2°Aug
  9. 16°5°Sep
  10. 20°7°Oct
  11. 24°10°Nov
  12. 26°12°Dec
Inside: 14 °C all yearEscape the heat: JanWettest: Feb

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.

Karst in New South Wales, Australia

Wombeyan Caves is a cave in Australia. The entrance is at 727 m. It lies within Wombeyan Karst Conservation Reserve.

Read more on Wikipedia

Getting there.

Plan the visit

Guided tours, a bed nearby, a car.

Car hire at SYD airport (Sydney)Discover CarsSee prices 

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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.

The ground above Wombeyan Caves (Sentinel-2) N 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.

  • 4other cave entrances within 3 kmFig Tree Cave, Tinted Cave, Kooringa Cave and 1 more
  • 2viewpoints within 3 km
  • 1car parks within 2 km
  • 3information boards and visitor centres within 3 km
  • 2campsites within 8 kmWombeyan Caves Campground, Wollondilly River Station
  • 1restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • springs within 2 km
  • sinkholes within 3 km
  • caving clubs and spots within 15 km
  • marked hiking routes within 3 km
  • climbing crags within 3 km
  • named waterfalls within 4 km
  • bus stops within 2 km
  • hotels and guesthouses within 8 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).

In our other atlases

What else is around Wombeyan Caves.

The river at the entrance, the waterfalls, the lakes, the mountains and volcanoes above, the canyons, beaches and islands nearby — from our other atlases.

Peakyas7 mountains within 10 km
Mount Macalister · 4.8 kmMount Guineacor · 5.4 kmTallygang Mountain · 6.2 kmLords Mountain · 6.3 kmMount Hickson · 7.7 kmFlower Garden Hill · 9.1 kmToms Island · 9.4 km

Figures 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.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Afternoon292623191411101216202426
Afternoon292623191411101216202426
Night14131185322571012
Rain (mm)6811479473774425243567469
Rainy days121211881088891110
Sun hours/day8.06.66.66.66.65.46.47.48.38.27.88.0
AfternoonAfternoonNightRain (mm)Sun hours/day
Jan292914688.0
Feb2626131146.6
Mar232311796.6
Apr19198476.6
May14145376.6
Jun11113745.4
Jul10102426.4
Aug12122527.4
Sep16165438.3
Oct20207568.2
Nov242410747.8
Dec262612698.0

Averages 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) for a cell about 55 km wide, brought to the altitude of the entrance (727 m) with the standard lapse rate. Not a forecast.

Photographs

Inside and around.

2010-09-19 Wombeyan Caves - Forest path
Maksym Kozlenko · CC BY-SA 4.0

Recent years

Wet years, dry years.

Rain of each month as a share of the 1991–2020 average. A dry year means a lower river and hotter rock; a wet one, more water in the gorge.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
202071%265%173%138%108%14%240%235%44%218%83%118%
2021131%85%297%17%188%68%44%89%77%156%265%153%
2022256%102%420%234%200%7%420%81%214%371%122%55%
2023155%50%112%171%43%23%21%70%44%57%219%143%
2024157%80%62%325%202%117%78%27%44%43%121%67%
2025160%56%121%96%233%11%217%193%166%74%68%55%

130% or more: wet month 70% or less: dry month

Caves nearby.

Wombeyan Caves

Australia

  • —Depth
  • —Galleries
  • 727 mEntrance altitude
  • 14 °CInside, all year

Jenolan Caves

Australia · 55 km

  • —Depth
  • —Galleries
  • 788 mEntrance altitude
  • 14 °CInside, all year

See the guide

Yarrangobilly Caves

Australia · 207 km

  • —Depth
  • —Galleries
  • 977 mEntrance altitude
  • 11 °CInside, all year

See the guide

Hermit's Cave

Australia · 360 km

  • —Depth
  • —Galleries
  • 150 mEntrance altitude
  • 18 °CInside, all year

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name, type, published depth and length, visitorsWikidata (Q2592939) · CC0
The relief above, the entrance altitude, the section and the 3D modelCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
ClimateNASA POWER, 1991–2020
Entrances, springs, sinkholes, opening hours and what is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Rivers, waterfalls, lakes, mountains, canyons, beaches and islands nearbyCoastya, Lakeyas, Peakyas, Cascadyas, Islandyas, Riveryas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

Do you prefer beaches, lakes, mountains, waterfalls, islands, rivers, canyons, caves, dark skies, viewpoints, birdwatching or forests?

Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, month by month, in seven languages.

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