Sweden 
In numbers.
May–Aug
Best months
619m
Elevation
The water at Fettjeåfallet, month by month
It roars from April to September.
The fullest months: from April to September, with the snowmelt. Below −4 °C on average (from November to March): the falls can partly freeze.
- 38%Jan
- 26%Feb
- 49%Mar
- 80%Apr
- 96%May
- 95%Jun
- 97%Jul
- 100%Aug
- 81%Sep
- 57%Oct
- 42%Nov
- 44%Dec
Best months to go, with plenty of water and pleasant days: from May to August.
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 1,620 m awaynearest car park in OpenStreetMap, straight line
- Åre Östersund Airport (OSD)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 75 km in a straight lineCar hire at OSD airport (Östersund)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From May to Augustbest months to go (estimate)
Plan your visit
Stay, explore and get there
Some links above are affiliate links: if you book through them we may earn a commission, at no extra cost to you. It never changes what the data on this page says.
Seen from the sky.
8 × 8 km of cloud-free satellite image, with what OpenStreetMap knows around the falls.
N
2 km
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 162 m in 1.8 km. Here the river runs about 102 m below the lower rim of its valley.
What is around.
- —viewpoints
- —waymarked walking routes
- 1car parks
- —swimming spots
- —picnic sites
- 2toilets
- —information boards and visitor centres
- —bus stops within 1 km
- —other named waterfalls within 4 km
- —caves
- 2campsitesStorhogna camping, Ställplats Klövsjöfjäll
- 8hotels, B&Bs and huts within 6 kmKlövsjöfjäll and 7 more
- —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 | -6 | -6 | -2 | 4 | 10 | 15 | 17 | 16 | 11 | 4 | -2 | -5 |
| Night °C | -12 | -12 | -9 | -4 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 4 | -2 | -6 | -10 |
| Rain & snow (mm) | 51 | 37 | 43 | 46 | 82 | 103 | 125 | 120 | 79 | 74 | 57 | 55 |
| Wet days | 13 | 10 | 12 | 11 | 15 | 18 | 20 | 18 | 14 | 14 | 13 | 13 |
| Sun h/day | 0.8 | 2.7 | 5.7 | 7.5 | 7.3 | 8.5 | 7.5 | 6.2 | 4.2 | 2.4 | 0.9 | 0.5 |
| Snow on the ground (cm) | 30 | 36 | 30 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 18 | 23 |
Long-term averages 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) for a cell about 55 km wide, with temperatures carried to the height of the falls (619 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 | 94% | 91% | 127% | 69% | 48% | 105% | 136% | 52% | 110% | 167% | 113% | 147% |
| 2021 | 117% | 73% | 69% | 114% | 115% | 150% | 64% | 103% | 115% | 126% | 80% | 63% |
| 2022 | 124% | 105% | 59% | 63% | 67% | 99% | 96% | 50% | 109% | 77% | 118% | 66% |
| 2023 | 137% | 92% | 113% | 217% | 69% | 73% | 131% | 173% | 106% | 68% | 219% | 60% |
| 2024 | 105% | 126% | 201% | 125% | 42% | 106% | 150% | 98% | 107% | 88% | 93% | 98% |
| 2025 | 127% | 60% | 106% | 63% | 128% | 100% | 100% | 65% | 173% | 149% | 96% | 123% |
130% wetter than usual 70% drier than usual
Compare with the waterfalls nearby.
Fettjeåfallet
Sweden
- —Height
- —Average flow
- May–AugBest months
About these numbers
| Names, height, width, river | Wikidata (Q10494848) · 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.
The family
Do you prefer beaches, lakes, mountains, waterfalls, islands, rivers or canyons?
Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, month by month, in seven languages.
beaches
Find your beach: sea temperature, sun and swimming month by month.Visit 
lakes
Every lake on Earth: water temperature, ice, depth and the shore.Coming soonVisit 
mountains
Every summit in 3D: summit weather, the 0 °C line, huts and trails.Visit 
waterfalls
Every waterfall: height, flow month by month and when it roars.You are here
islands
Every island from the sea up: size, sea temperature, ferries and 3D.Visit 
rivers
Every river from source to sea: the journey, the flow and the basin in numbers.Visit 
canyons
Every canyon cut to scale: depth to the floor, rim and floor temperatures, trails and viewpoints.Visit