Australia Waterfall

Eagle Falls

One of the waterfalls of Australia.

Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data), CC BY 4.0, with relief shading from Copernicus WorldDEM-30

In numbers.

Jan–Mar

Best months

311m

Elevation

The water at Eagle Falls, month by month

It roars from January to February.

The fullest months: from January to February. The thinnest: from May to November.

83%Jan
100%Feb
70%Mar
25%Apr
6%May
1%Jun
0%Jul
0%Aug
0%Sep
1%Oct
9%Nov
34%Dec

high water best months to go

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

Waterfall in Western Australia

Eagle Falls is a waterfall in Australia.

Getting there.

Fitzroy Crossing Airport (FIZ)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 117 km in a straight lineCar hire at KNX airport (Kununurra)Discover Cars · Affiliate link
From January 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.

Eagle Falls 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).

Weather

The weather, month by month.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Afternoon °C	35	34	34	34	31	28	29	32	36	40	40	38
Night °C	25	24	23	20	16	13	13	14	20	24	26	26
Rain & snow (mm)	193	173	104	14	12	6	5	2	4	16	57	118
Wet days	20	18	11	3	2	1	1	0	1	4	10	16
Sun h/day	8.4	8.5	8.8	9.9	9.7	10.0	10.4	11.2	11.2	10.8	10.0	8.9

Long-term averages 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) for a cell about 55 km wide, with temperatures carried to the height of the falls (311 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	87%	107%	49%	76%	53%	0%	0%	—	—	46%	96%	220%
2021	61%	85%	174%	0%	0%	5%	0%	—	—	52%	64%	64%
2022	120%	17%	30%	7%	3%	315%	0%	—	—	224%	202%	93%
2023	80%	55%	18%	265%	0%	590%	123%	—	—	0%	70%	35%
2024	106%	119%	273%	9%	24%	30%	0%	—	—	33%	66%	41%
2025	64%	119%	48%	11%	242%	0%	6%	—	—	75%	48%	60%

130% wetter than usual 70% drier than usual

About these numbers

Names, height, width, river	Wikidata (Q37460) · 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.