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Njupeskär

A 93 m drop.

When to go

Fulufjället 10
Kai Pauldrach ( talk · contribs ) · CC BY-SA 3.0

In numbers.

93m

Height

May–Aug

Best months

872m

Elevation

The water at Njupeskär, month by month

It roars from May to June.

The fullest months: from May to June, with the snowmelt. The thinnest: from January to March. Below −4 °C on average (from November to March): the falls can partly freeze.

  1. 19%Jan
  2. 7%Feb
  3. 19%Mar
  4. 72%Apr
  5. 100%May
  6. 80%Jun
  7. 70%Jul
  8. 71%Aug
  9. 61%Sep
  10. 46%Oct
  11. 39%Nov
  12. 28%Dec
high water best months to go may freeze

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.

Waterfall

Njupeskär is a waterfall in Sweden. The water falls 93 m. It lies within Fulufjället National Park.

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How big is it?

How big it really is.

93 mNjupeskär1.8 ma person93 mStatue ofLiberty96 mBig Ben139 mGreat Pyramid

Height of the drop from Wikidata. Buildings and the person are drawn at the same scale.

Seen from the sky.

8 × 8 km of cloud-free satellite image, with what OpenStreetMap knows around the falls.

Njupeskär 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 Stora Njupån through the falls
700 m800 m900 mNjupeskär0+0.5 km+1 km+1.5 km← upstreamdownstream →

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
−690 m+690 m

Around the falls the river drops 195 m in 2.1 km. Here the river runs about 46 m below the lower rim of its valley.

What is around.

  • 7viewpointsNjupeskär and 6 more
  • 5waymarked walking routesJaktfalksleden, Njupeskärsslingan, Connector Norwegian/Swedish border - Vasaloppsleden and 2 more
  • 3car parks
  • —swimming spots
  • 4picnic sites
  • 4toilets
  • 12information boards and visitor centres
  • —bus stops within 1 km
  • —other named waterfalls within 4 km
  • —caves
  • 1campsitesMörkrets Camping
  • 3hotels, B&Bs and huts within 6 kmHarrsjöstugan, Fulufjällsgården, Rösjöstugorna
  • 1restaurants 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.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Afternoon °C-8-7-42914161492-3-7
Night °C-13-13-11-505863-3-8-12
Rain & snow (mm)6649505510410613613596917966
Wet days141212121618211915161615
Sun h/day1.32.86.18.07.18.07.15.94.32.30.90.8
Snow on the ground (cm)4560612950001111931

Long-term averages 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) for a cell about 55 km wide, with temperatures carried to the height of the falls (872 m) at −6.5 °C per 1,000 m. Not a forecast.

Photos

Through visitors' eyes.

Njupeskär Waterfall 6
Niklasmagnussonstockholm · CC BY-SA 4.0
Fulufjället NP Njupeskär
Hsskberra · CC BY-SA 4.0
Fulufjällets nationalpark, July 2022 13
Bysmon · 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.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2020108%141%142%64%43%100%116%49%118%174%134%175%
202187%43%89%82%105%125%117%59%81%145%68%47%
202298%139%29%40%83%105%69%89%115%90%110%79%
2023118%92%116%244%48%84%155%226%108%60%101%72%
202484%160%212%120%49%99%194%111%120%96%63%99%
2025104%63%86%60%90%124%118%71%140%124%121%117%

130% wetter than usual 70% drier than usual

Compare with the waterfalls nearby.

Njupeskär

Sweden

  • 93 mHeight
  • —Average flow
  • May–AugBest months

Fettjeåfallet

Sweden

  • —Height
  • —Average flow
  • May–AugBest months

See the guide

Hunderfossen

Norway

  • —Height
  • 0.18 m³/sAverage flow
  • May–AugBest months

See the guide

Fämtfallet

Sweden

  • —Height
  • —Average flow
  • Apr–Jun, AugBest months

See the guide

About these numbers

Names, height, width, riverWikidata (Q37403) · CC0
ClimateNASA POWER, 1991–2020
Relief, river profile, 3D modelCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Paths, viewpoints, parking© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX 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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