Italy 
In numbers.
50m
Height
Apr–Jun
Nov
Best months
614m
Elevation
The water at Chengen Falls, month by month
It roars from April to June and from October to November.
The fullest months: from April to June and from October to November.
- 49%Jan
- 50%Feb
- 64%Mar
- 78%Apr
- 98%May
- 89%Jun
- 70%Jul
- 72%Aug
- 69%Sep
- 77%Oct
- 100%Nov
- 71%Dec
Best months to go, with plenty of water and pleasant days: from April to June and November.
Estimate from rain, snowmelt and evaporation month by month (NASA POWER, 1991–2020) around the falls. Dams upstream can change the real flow.
Waterfalls in Italy
Chengen Falls is a waterfall in Italy. The water falls 50 m.
Getting there.
- Abbadia Lariananearest town · 1.9 km in a straight line
- Parking 1,660 m awaynearest car park in OpenStreetMap, straight line
- Lugano Airport (LUG)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 37 km in a straight lineCar hire at BGY airport (Orio al Serio)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From April to June and Novemberbest months to go (estimate)
Plan your visit
Stay, explore and get there
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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.
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 412 m in 0.9 km.
What is around.
- 10viewpointsZucco della Rocca, Belvedere parco del Valentino, Corda and 7 more
- 15waymarked walking routesSentiero delle Foppe, Sentiero del Viandante (Abbadia Lariana - Mandello del Lario), Sentiero del Viandante (Lecco - Abbadia Lariana) and 12 more
- 24car parks
- —swimming spots
- 1picnic sites
- 1toilets
- 11information boards and visitor centres
- —bus stops within 1 km
- 3other named waterfalls within 4 kmCascata della marmitta dei Giganti, Cascate di tufo, Piccola cascata nella Grigna Meridionale
- —caves
- 9campsitesCamping Spiaggia, Camping Grigna, Camping La Fornace and 6 more
- 63hotels, B&Bs and huts within 6 kmAlla Torre del Barbarossa, Bed & Breakfast "Luoghi Manzoniani", Hotel Moderno and 60 more
- 29restaurants 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
- Abbadia Lariana1.9 km in a straight line
- Mandello del Lario4.0 km in a straight line
- Ballabio4.9 km in a straight line
- Valbrona5.4 km in a straight line
- Lecco5.7 km in a straight line
- Osigo5.7 km in a straight line
- Malgrate5.8 km in a straight line
- Valmadrera-Caserta6.0 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 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 15 | 19 | 23 | 25 | 25 | 20 | 16 | 10 | 5 |
| Night °C | -3 | -2 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 15 | 17 | 17 | 12 | 8 | 3 | -2 |
| Rain & snow (mm) | 57 | 63 | 72 | 105 | 140 | 123 | 111 | 130 | 105 | 116 | 149 | 78 |
| Wet days | 8 | 7 | 9 | 13 | 16 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 10 |
| Sun h/day | 4.2 | 5.5 | 6.4 | 5.9 | 5.7 | 7.4 | 7.9 | 7.1 | 6.1 | 4.7 | 3.4 | 3.5 |
| Snow on the ground (cm) | 21 | 19 | 12 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 18 |
Long-term averages 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) for a cell about 55 km wide, with temperatures carried to the height of the falls (614 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 | 36% | 30% | 125% | 58% | 89% | 168% | 79% | 130% | 105% | 200% | 5% | 224% |
| 2021 | 209% | 91% | 20% | 78% | 92% | 48% | 187% | 81% | 95% | 78% | 96% | 43% |
| 2022 | 30% | 55% | 19% | 61% | 73% | 88% | 82% | 76% | 106% | 83% | 53% | 80% |
| 2023 | 56% | 12% | 70% | 91% | 137% | 87% | 122% | 126% | 99% | 173% | 75% | 124% |
| 2024 | 111% | 269% | 282% | 98% | 200% | 210% | 119% | 41% | 205% | 209% | 12% | 39% |
| 2025 | 236% | 64% | 163% | 105% | 129% | 83% | 184% | 154% | 197% | 59% | 63% | 52% |
130% wetter than usual 70% drier than usual
Compare with the waterfalls nearby.
Chengen Falls
Italy
- 50 mHeight
- —Average flow
- Apr–Jun, NovBest months
About these numbers
| Names, height, width, river | Wikidata (Q107265381) · 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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