Australia 
In numbers.
Dec–Mar
Best months
839m
Elevation
The water at Browns Falls, month by month
It roars from January to March.
The fullest months: from January to March. The thinnest: from August to September.
- 92%Jan
- 99%Feb
- 100%Mar
- 61%Apr
- 41%May
- 47%Jun
- 29%Jul
- 23%Aug
- 18%Sep
- 38%Oct
- 53%Nov
- 74%Dec
Best months to go, with plenty of water and pleasant days: from December to March.
Estimate from rain, snowmelt and evaporation month by month (NASA POWER, 1991–2020) around the falls. Dams upstream can change the real flow.
Getting there.
- Parking 730 m awaynearest car park in OpenStreetMap, straight line
- Lismore Airport (LSY)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 103 km in a straight lineCar hire at LSY airport (Lismore)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From December to Marchbest 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.
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Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 8 × 8 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.
The line follows the river as mapped in OpenStreetMap; heights from the 30 m Copernicus model, which smooths narrow drops — the published height of the falls is the one above.
Around the falls the river drops 110 m in 1.0 km. Here the river runs about 48 m below the lower rim of its valley.
What is around.
- 3viewpointsDaggs Falls Viewing Platform
- —waymarked walking routes
- 4car parks
- —swimming spots
- 6picnic sites
- 2toilets
- —information boards and visitor centres
- —bus stops within 1 km
- 5other named waterfalls within 4 kmBrown Falls, Queen Mary Falls, Daggs Falls and 2 more
- —caves
- 3campsitesQueen Mary Falls Caravan Park
- 2hotels, B&Bs and huts within 6 kmSundown Motel, Killarney Hotel Motel
- 1restaurants 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).
Weather
The weather, month by month.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Afternoon °C | 27 | 25 | 23 | 20 | 17 | 14 | 14 | 16 | 20 | 23 | 25 | 26 |
| Night °C | 15 | 14 | 13 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 12 | 14 |
| Rain & snow (mm) | 133 | 125 | 122 | 55 | 50 | 64 | 27 | 36 | 33 | 77 | 87 | 117 |
| Wet days | 15 | 16 | 16 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 12 | 15 |
| Sun h/day | 8.3 | 7.5 | 6.9 | 7.4 | 7.3 | 6.4 | 7.4 | 8.5 | 8.9 | 8.7 | 8.9 | 8.3 |
Long-term averages 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) for a cell about 55 km wide, with temperatures carried to the height of the falls (839 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 | 95% | 229% | 64% | 37% | 46% | 67% | 133% | 56% | 28% | 88% | 8% | 211% |
| 2021 | 93% | 82% | 190% | 129% | 81% | 34% | 127% | 29% | 42% | 147% | 238% | 117% |
| 2022 | 83% | 277% | 155% | 95% | 245% | 24% | 139% | 56% | 185% | 130% | 25% | 50% |
| 2023 | 93% | 40% | 90% | 55% | 81% | 9% | 52% | 30% | 38% | 30% | 153% | 112% |
| 2024 | 154% | 58% | 81% | 170% | 104% | 25% | 151% | 139% | 155% | 118% | 224% | 89% |
| 2025 | 93% | 47% | 250% | 182% | 172% | 61% | 203% | 143% | 28% | 78% | 116% | 60% |
130% wetter than usual 70% drier than usual
Compare with the waterfalls nearby.
Browns Falls
Australia
- —Height
- —Average flow
- Dec–MarBest months
About these numbers
| Names, height, width, river | Wikidata (Q59067) · 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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