Malaysia Waterfall

Mahua Waterfall

One of the waterfalls of Malaysia.

When to go

CEphoto, Uwe Aranas · CC BY-SA 3.0

In numbers.

0.75m³/s

Average flow

estimate

Jul
Oct–Dec

Best months

1,067m

Elevation

The water at Mahua Waterfall, month by month

It roars in July and from September to December.

The fullest months: July and from September to December.

0.8 m³/sJan
0.5 m³/sFeb
0.5 m³/sMar
0.5 m³/sApr
0.7 m³/sMay
0.8 m³/sJun
0.9 m³/sJul
0.9 m³/sAug
0.9 m³/sSep
1.1 m³/sOct
1.1 m³/sNov
1.0 m³/sDec

high water best months to go

From about 0.46 m³/s in the lowest month to 1.1 m³/s in the highest. Best months to go, with plenty of water and pleasant days: July and from October to December.

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.

Waterfall in Sabah, Malaysia

Mahua Waterfall is a waterfall in Malaysia.

Getting there.

Tambunannearest town · 9.0 km in a straight line
Kota Kinabalu International Airport (BKI)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 43 km in a straight lineCar hire at BKI airport (Kota Kinabalu)Discover Cars · Affiliate link
July and from October to Decemberbest 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.

Mahua 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

Tambunan9.0 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	23	23	23	24	24	23	23	23	23	23	23	23
Night °C	18	17	18	19	19	19	19	19	18	18	19	18
Rain & snow (mm)	198	98	123	138	218	263	260	239	272	356	282	270
Wet days	17	11	13	17	21	21	21	22	23	26	25	24
Sun h/day	4.9	6.3	7.1	8.0	7.2	6.4	6.3	6.3	5.9	5.4	5.4	4.8

Long-term averages 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) for a cell about 55 km wide, with temperatures carried to the height of the falls (1,067 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	47%	34%	38%	82%	105%	149%	157%	101%	136%	113%	116%	125%
2021	276%	110%	98%	49%	137%	49%	90%	177%	161%	114%	100%	71%
2022	68%	203%	211%	201%	95%	128%	131%	93%	113%	107%	94%	119%
2023	200%	226%	71%	61%	66%	40%	133%	50%	103%	31%	87%	93%
2024	58%	104%	9%	84%	116%	104%	92%	147%	68%	83%	129%	97%
2025	219%	273%	254%	120%	76%	70%	51%	118%	144%	63%	115%	81%

130% wetter than usual 70% drier than usual

About these numbers

Names, height, width, river	Wikidata (Q6734955) · 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.