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The descent
The entrance, at 1,118 m.
The real relief above Jaskinia Mylna, 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.
1,118m
Entrance altitude
from the 30 m relief model
4°C
Inside, all year
the yearly average outside, at the entrance
608m
Rock above
the highest point within 1.5 km
Inside and outside
4 °C inside, all year.
Deep inside, a cave keeps the average temperature of the year outside: about 4 °C here, in January and in August. In July the afternoon reaches 19 °C at the entrance, 16 °C warmer than inside: take a jacket.
- -4°-11°Jan
- -3°-10°Feb
- 1°-6°Mar
- 8°-1°Apr
- 14°4°May
- 17°8°Jun
- 19°10°Jul
- 19°10°Aug
- 14°5°Sep
- 8°1°Oct
- 3°-3°Nov
- -3°-9°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 Poland
Jaskinia Mylna is a cave in Poland. The entrance is at 1,118 m.
Getting there.
- Wild cave: only with caving equipmentNo paths or lights inside. Go only with a caving club or a qualified guide.
- Kościeliskonearest town · 6.0 km in a straight line
- Viewpointsnearest viewpoint · 0.0 km from the entrance
- Poprad-Tatry Airport (TAT)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 33 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.
- 233other cave entrances within 3 kmJaskinia Mylna (otw. płn.) wyjście, Jaskinia Mroźna wyjście, Jaskinia Mylna (wejście) and 230 more
- 2springs within 2 kmLodowe Źródło
- 3viewpoints within 3 km
- 29marked hiking routes within 3 kmPolana Iwanówka - Siwa Przełęcz, Dolina Kościeliska - Jaskinia Mroźna, Dolina Kościeliska - Jaskinia Raptawicka and 26 more
- 1named waterfalls within 4 kmSikawka
- 4campsites within 8 kmPolana Rogoźniczańska PZA, Pod Krokwią, Camper Park Olimp and 1 more
- 287hotels and guesthouses within 8 kmSzałas pod Szymoszkową, Hajduk, Halit and 284 more
- sinkholes within 3 km
- caving clubs and spots within 15 km
- climbing crags within 3 km
- car parks within 2 km
- information boards and visitor centres within 3 km
- bus stops within 2 km
- restaurants and cafés within 3 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
- Kościelisko6.0 km in a straight line
- Zakopane9.1 km in a straight line
- Witów9.9 km in a straight line
- Murzasichle15 km in a straight line
- Poronin15 km in a straight line
- Pribylina16 km in a straight line
- Zuberec18 km in a straight line
- Biały Dunajec18 km in a straight line
In our other atlases
What else is around Jaskinia Mylna.
The river at the entrance, the waterfalls, the lakes, the mountains and volcanoes above, the canyons, beaches and islands nearby — from our other atlases.
Peakyas117 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 | -4 | -3 | 1 | 8 | 14 | 17 | 19 | 19 | 14 | 8 | 3 | -3 |
| Afternoon | -4 | -3 | 1 | 8 | 14 | 17 | 19 | 19 | 14 | 8 | 3 | -3 |
| Night | -11 | -10 | -6 | -1 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 1 | -3 | -9 |
| Rain (mm) | 66 | 64 | 69 | 69 | 119 | 127 | 139 | 102 | 89 | 78 | 70 | 65 |
| Rainy days | 14 | 14 | 15 | 15 | 19 | 18 | 18 | 15 | 13 | 13 | 15 | 15 |
| 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 |
| Snow on the ground (cm) | 32 | 37 | 26 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 12 | 21 |
| Afternoon | Afternoon | Night | Rain (mm) | Sun hours/day | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | -4 | -4 | -11 | 66 | 1.7 |
| Feb | -3 | -3 | -10 | 64 | 2.9 |
| Mar | 1 | 1 | -6 | 69 | 4.4 |
| Apr | 8 | 8 | -1 | 69 | 5.7 |
| May | 14 | 14 | 4 | 119 | 6.2 |
| Jun | 17 | 17 | 8 | 127 | 6.5 |
| Jul | 19 | 19 | 10 | 139 | 6.8 |
| Aug | 19 | 19 | 10 | 102 | 7.0 |
| Sep | 14 | 14 | 5 | 89 | 5.1 |
| Oct | 8 | 8 | 1 | 78 | 3.5 |
| Nov | 3 | 3 | -3 | 70 | 1.7 |
| Dec | -3 | -3 | -9 | 65 | 1.1 |
Averages 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) for a cell about 55 km wide, brought to the altitude of the entrance (1,118 m) with the standard lapse rate. Not a forecast.
Photographs
Inside and around.
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.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 48% | 168% | 80% | 35% | 92% | 152% | 108% | 101% | 147% | 213% | 44% | 119% |
| 2021 | 137% | 119% | 75% | 133% | 136% | 39% | 106% | 180% | 85% | 26% | 79% | 107% |
| 2022 | 109% | 118% | 61% | 135% | 54% | 40% | 87% | 77% | 158% | 57% | 75% | 127% |
| 2023 | 204% | 117% | 102% | 120% | 104% | 111% | 75% | 162% | 95% | 146% | 182% | 155% |
| 2024 | 147% | 146% | 104% | 130% | 74% | 108% | 69% | 69% | 142% | 75% | 49% | 50% |
| 2025 | 90% | 35% | 83% | 119% | 89% | 53% | 93% | 69% | 126% | 126% | 176% | 25% |
130% or more: wet month 70% or less: dry month
Caves nearby.
Jaskinia Mylna
Poland
- —Depth
- —Galleries
- 1,118 mEntrance altitude
- 4 °CInside, all year
Jaskinia Wielka Śnieżna
Poland · 4 km
- —Depth
- 24 kmGalleries
- 1,793 mEntrance altitude
- 0 °CInside, all year
Važecká Cave
Slovakia · 22 km
- —Depth
- 0.5 kmGalleries
- 784 mEntrance altitude
- 6 °CInside, all year
Belianska Cave
Slovakia · 33 km
- —Depth
- 3.8 kmGalleries
- 890 mEntrance altitude
- 5 °CInside, all year
Where these figures come from
| Name, type, published depth and length, visitors | Wikidata (Q16562324) · 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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