United Kingdom Waterfall

Horseshoe Falls

One of the waterfalls of United Kingdom.

When to go

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In numbers.

27m³/s

Average flow

estimate

Mar–Apr
Oct–Nov

Best months

95m

Elevation

The water at Horseshoe Falls, month by month

It roars from October to February.

The fullest months: from October to February.

36 m³/sJan
27 m³/sFeb
23 m³/sMar
17 m³/sApr
13 m³/sMay
14 m³/sJun
15 m³/sJul
17 m³/sAug
16 m³/sSep
28 m³/sOct
38 m³/sNov
43 m³/sDec

high water best months to go

From about 13 m³/s in the lowest month to 43 m³/s in the highest. Best months to go, with plenty of water and pleasant days: from March to April and from October to November.

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.

Grade II listed wier in Denbighshire; the 'Falls' are located above rapids on the River Dee approximately 2km above Llangollen

Horseshoe Falls is a waterfall in United Kingdom.

Getting there.

Llangollennearest town · 2.4 km in a straight line
Parking 290 m awaynearest car park in OpenStreetMap, straight line
Liverpool John Lennon Airport (LPL)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 46 km in a straight lineCar hire at LPL airport (Liverpool)Discover Cars · Affiliate link
From March to April and from October to Novemberbest 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.

Horseshoe 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.

The River Dee through the falls

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.

The valley below the falls

Around the falls the river drops 4 m in 0.2 km. Here the river runs about 16 m below the lower rim of its valley.

What is around.

—viewpoints
3waymarked walking routesLlangollen History Trail, North Berwyn Way, Dee Valley Way
26car parks
—swimming spots
3picnic sites
8toilets
7information boards and visitor centres
1bus stops within 1 km
—other named waterfalls within 4 km
—caves
7campsitesLlandyn Holiday Park, Penddol Farm Caravan Park, Wern Isaf Campsite and 4 more
30hotels, B&Bs and huts within 6 kmChain Bridge Hotel, The Wild Pheasant Hotel & Spa, White Waters Country Hotel and 27 more
23restaurants 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

Llangollen2.4 km in a straight line
Rhosllannerchrugog10 km in a straight line
Ruabon11 km in a straight line
Chirk11 km in a straight line
Coedpoeth12 km in a straight line
Brymbo13 km in a straight line
Gobowen14 km in a straight line
Wrexham16 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	6	7	9	12	16	18	20	19	17	14	9	7
Night °C	2	2	2	4	7	10	12	12	10	7	4	3
Rain & snow (mm)	76	63	63	56	66	79	83	83	71	91	91	92
Wet days	17	14	15	14	14	14	16	17	15	17	18	18
Sun h/day	1.1	2.4	4.1	5.9	6.7	6.3	6.1	5.4	4.4	2.6	1.4	0.9
Snow on the ground (cm)	6	6	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	5

Long-term averages 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) for a cell about 55 km wide, with temperatures carried to the height of the falls (95 m) at −6.5 °C per 1,000 m. Not a forecast.

Photos

Through visitors' eyes.

Canadian Horseshoe Falls (en 2017) (8) — Pierre André · CC BY-SA 4.0

Cataratas del Niagara EEUU6220 — Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0

Horseshoe Falls, viewed from Table Rock Centre in Niagara Falls, Ontario — Ethan Sahagun · CC BY-SA 3.0

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	95%	252%	90%	57%	20%	146%	107%	146%	69%	150%	79%	152%
2021	191%	110%	96%	28%	196%	47%	91%	61%	92%	129%	52%	118%
2022	36%	175%	59%	58%	102%	52%	50%	40%	120%	114%	127%	80%
2023	95%	28%	171%	116%	43%	62%	147%	119%	126%	178%	112%	142%
2024	123%	167%	160%	137%	139%	56%	107%	59%	186%	110%	62%	108%
2025	127%	58%	32%	69%	57%	84%	65%	34%	189%	83%	142%	123%

130% wetter than usual 70% drier than usual

Compare with the waterfalls nearby.

Horseshoe Falls

United Kingdom

—Height
27 m³/sAverage flow
Mar–Apr, Oct–NovBest months

Pistyll Rhaeadr

United Kingdom

—Height
—Average flow
Apr, Aug–OctBest months

See the guide

Swallow Falls

United Kingdom

—Height
2.2 m³/sAverage flow
Mar, Sep–NovBest months

See the guide

Dyserth Waterfall

United Kingdom

—Height
1.0 m³/sAverage flow
Mar, Sep–NovBest months

See the guide

About these numbers

Names, height, width, river	Wikidata (Q5906032) · 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.