China Waterfall

Dadieshui Waterfall

One of the waterfalls of China.

When to go

瑞丽江的河水 · CC BY-SA 4.0

In numbers.

Jun–Sep

Best months

1,797m

Elevation

The water at Dadieshui Waterfall, month by month

It roars from July to August.

The fullest months: from July to August. The thinnest: from November to April.

7%Jan
5%Feb
6%Mar
10%Apr
28%May
73%Jun
100%Jul
96%Aug
68%Sep
46%Oct
21%Nov
8%Dec

high water best months to go

Best months to go, with plenty of water and pleasant days: from June to September.

Estimate from rain, snowmelt and evaporation month by month (NASA POWER, 1991–2020) around the falls. Dams upstream can change the real flow.

Waterfall on the Bajiang River in Kunming, China

Dadieshui Waterfall is a waterfall in China.

Getting there.

Lufunearest town · 15 km in a straight line
Kunming Changshui International Airport (KMG)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 58 km in a straight line
From June to Septemberbest 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.

Dadieshui Waterfall seen from above (Sentinel-2)

N 2 km

Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 8 × 8 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

What is around.

—viewpoints
—waymarked walking routes
—car parks
—swimming spots
—picnic sites
—toilets
—information boards and visitor centres
—bus stops within 1 km
—other named waterfalls within 4 km
—caves
—campsites
—hotels, B&Bs and huts within 6 km
—restaurants 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

Lufu15 km in a straight line
Shilin24 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	15	19	22	25	27	27	26	26	25	22	19	15
Night °C	3	5	8	12	15	17	17	16	14	12	7	3
Rain & snow (mm)	25	11	20	37	81	152	165	138	90	65	24	16
Wet days	4	3	5	8	14	19	22	21	16	12	5	3
Sun h/day	5.8	7.1	7.0	7.2	6.6	4.7	4.3	4.6	4.1	3.7	5.6	4.9
Snow on the ground (cm)	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1

Long-term averages 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) for a cell about 55 km wide, with temperatures carried to the height of the falls (1,797 m) at −6.5 °C per 1,000 m. Not a forecast.

Photos

Through visitors' eyes.

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	191%	195%	101%	170%	58%	107%	125%	117%	133%	63%	32%	43%
2021	16%	387%	21%	176%	85%	120%	117%	109%	135%	81%	193%	222%
2022	145%	288%	201%	159%	225%	92%	70%	117%	268%	44%	7%	114%
2023	5%	23%	63%	11%	23%	80%	73%	187%	61%	96%	42%	135%
2024	149%	11%	29%	13%	114%	145%	84%	86%	148%	114%	243%	8%
2025	34%	125%	63%	55%	176%	152%	148%	132%	197%	105%	356%	51%

130% wetter than usual 70% drier than usual

About these numbers

Names, height, width, river	Wikidata (Q10933867) · 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.