Australia Waterfall

Mitchell Falls

One of the waterfalls of Australia.

When to go

Aussie Oc at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0

In numbers.

Jan–Mar

Best months

124m

Elevation

The water at Mitchell Falls, month by month

It roars from January to March.

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

93%Jan
100%Feb
83%Mar
35%Apr
10%May
1%Jun
0%Jul
0%Aug
0%Sep
2%Oct
9%Nov
43%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

Mitchell Falls is a waterfall in Australia.

Getting there.

East Kimberley Regional (Kununurra) Airport (KNX)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 340 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

Car hire at KNX airport (Kununurra)Discover CarsSee

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.

Mitchell Falls seen from above (Sentinel-2)

N 2 km

ViewpointsOther fallsCampsites

Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 8 × 8 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

The Mitchell River 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 78 m in 3.6 km. Here the river runs about 15 m below the lower rim of its valley.

What is around.

4viewpoints
—waymarked walking routes
—car parks
—swimming spots
—picnic sites
—toilets
—information boards and visitor centres
—bus stops within 1 km
1other named waterfalls within 4 kmLittle Mertens Falls
—caves
1campsitesMitchell Falls Campground
—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	31	30	31	32	32	31	32	34	38	39	38	34
Night °C	24	24	23	21	18	16	16	17	21	23	25	25
Rain & snow (mm)	322	261	212	44	20	5	2	1	3	32	77	211
Wet days	26	22	19	7	2	0	0	0	1	6	14	22
Sun h/day	6.5	6.8	7.8	9.1	9.1	9.5	9.9	10.4	10.5	10.3	9.7	7.8

Long-term averages 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) for a cell about 55 km wide, with temperatures carried to the height of the falls (124 m) at −6.5 °C per 1,000 m. Not a forecast.

Photos

Through visitors' eyes.

Mitchell Falls lookout — Martin.sandrock · CC BY-SA 4.0

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	77%	77%	13%	26%	57%	0%	—	—	—	38%	63%	95%
2021	93%	73%	51%	79%	0%	6%	—	—	—	2%	9%	53%
2022	108%	32%	30%	26%	0%	128%	—	—	—	44%	56%	45%
2023	29%	85%	15%	205%	0%	222%	—	—	—	1%	29%	10%
2024	75%	34%	58%	30%	140%	6%	—	—	—	6%	24%	41%
2025	57%	48%	103%	254%	27%	0%	—	—	—	5%	30%	65%

130% wetter than usual 70% drier than usual

About these numbers

Names, height, width, river	Wikidata (Q21886475) · 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.