Sweden 
In numbers.
0.57m³/s
Average flow
estimate
May–Jul
Sep
Best months
394m
Elevation
The water at Hällingsåfallet, month by month
It roars from May to July.
The fullest months: from May to July, with the snowmelt. The thinnest: February. Below −4 °C on average (from December to March): the falls can partly freeze.
- 0.4 m³/sJan
- 0.2 m³/sFeb
- 0.4 m³/sMar
- 1.0 m³/sApr
- 1.5 m³/sMay
- 1.3 m³/sJun
- 1.1 m³/sJul
- 1.0 m³/sAug
- 1.0 m³/sSep
- 0.6 m³/sOct
- 0.5 m³/sNov
- 0.5 m³/sDec
From about 0.19 m³/s in the lowest month to 1.5 m³/s in the highest. Best months to go, with plenty of water and pleasant days: from May to July and September.
Estimate: the timing comes from rain, snowmelt and evaporation (NASA POWER, 1991–2020); the amounts from the river model of HydroATLAS (WaterGAP, 1971–2000). Dams upstream can change the real flow.
Getting there.
- Parking 230 m awaynearest car park in OpenStreetMap, straight line
- Vilhelmina South Lapland Airport (VHM)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 120 km in a straight lineCar hire at OSD airport (Östersund)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From May to July and 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.
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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 3.6 km. Here the river runs about 16 m below the lower rim of its valley.
What is around.
- 3viewpointsHällingsåfallet
- —waymarked walking routes
- 2car parks
- —swimming spots
- 5picnic sites
- 5toilets
- 1information 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 | -5 | -5 | -2 | 3 | 10 | 15 | 18 | 16 | 11 | 4 | -2 | -4 |
| Night °C | -11 | -11 | -8 | -3 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 0 | -6 | -9 |
| Rain & snow (mm) | 72 | 56 | 63 | 60 | 81 | 103 | 128 | 118 | 102 | 76 | 71 | 77 |
| Wet days | 19 | 16 | 18 | 16 | 18 | 20 | 22 | 20 | 18 | 19 | 17 | 19 |
| Sun h/day | 0.4 | 1.7 | 4.5 | 7.5 | 7.5 | 8.2 | 7.4 | 5.8 | 3.2 | 1.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Snow on the ground (cm) | 41 | 52 | 54 | 34 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 20 | 28 |
Long-term averages 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) for a cell about 55 km wide, with temperatures carried to the height of the falls (394 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% | 123% | 114% | 115% | 81% | 58% | 100% | 84% | 117% | 125% | 115% | 74% |
| 2021 | 94% | 78% | 103% | 78% | 70% | 128% | 93% | 110% | 84% | 254% | 106% | 58% |
| 2022 | 136% | 117% | 90% | 80% | 125% | 106% | 164% | 84% | 80% | 138% | 79% | 90% |
| 2023 | 102% | 91% | 103% | 79% | 94% | 66% | 108% | 126% | 139% | 103% | 67% | 73% |
| 2024 | 121% | 115% | 92% | 106% | 57% | 130% | 143% | 140% | 91% | 143% | 138% | 142% |
| 2025 | 104% | 78% | 142% | 112% | 134% | 161% | 69% | 104% | 102% | 179% | 108% | 152% |
130% wetter than usual 70% drier than usual
Compare with the waterfalls nearby.
Hällingsåfallet
Sweden
- —Height
- 0.57 m³/sAverage flow
- May–Jul, SepBest months
About these numbers
| Names, height, width, river | Wikidata (Q10531425) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| River flow and catchment | HydroATLAS / RiverATLAS v1.0 (Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 |
| 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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