Gabon Waterfall

Tchimbélé

One of the waterfalls of Gabon.

Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data), CC BY 4.0, with relief shading from Copernicus WorldDEM-30

In numbers.

Apr
Oct–Dec

Best months

630m

Elevation

The water at Tchimbélé, month by month

It roars from October to November.

The fullest months: from October to November. The thinnest: from July to September.

46%Jan
36%Feb
55%Mar
61%Apr
53%May
27%Jun
9%Jul
5%Aug
24%Sep
76%Oct
100%Nov
71%Dec

high water best months to go

Best months to go, with plenty of water and pleasant days: April and from October to December.

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 Gabon

Tchimbélé is a waterfall in Gabon.

Getting there.

Libreville Leon M'ba International Airport (LBV)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 113 km in a straight lineCar hire at LBV airport (Libreville)Discover Cars · Affiliate link
April 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.

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).

Weather

The weather, month by month.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Afternoon °C	26	27	26	26	26	26	25	26	26	25	26	26
Night °C	20	20	20	20	20	19	18	18	19	19	20	20
Rain & snow (mm)	145	142	241	219	180	68	26	45	146	342	336	181
Wet days	24	24	29	28	27	16	8	13	25	30	29	26
Sun h/day	5.0	4.6	4.9	4.9	4.1	2.4	1.8	1.4	2.2	3.4	3.5	4.1

Long-term averages 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) for a cell about 55 km wide, with temperatures carried to the height of the falls (630 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	30%	83%	200%	33%	68%	116%	121%	58%	45%	95%	97%	98%
2021	112%	62%	99%	47%	119%	78%	44%	161%	85%	65%	68%	178%
2022	24%	15%	50%	67%	59%	265%	124%	80%	81%	217%	95%	137%
2023	85%	74%	43%	59%	58%	36%	24%	55%	42%	58%	76%	91%
2024	34%	35%	81%	85%	76%	68%	13%	20%	64%	45%	69%	45%
2025	45%	30%	57%	72%	70%	231%	72%	19%	77%	55%	33%	48%

130% wetter than usual 70% drier than usual

Compare with the waterfalls nearby.

Tchimbélé

Gabon

—Height
—Average flow
Apr, Oct–DecBest months

Kongou Falls

Gabon

—Height
—Average flow
Apr, Oct–DecBest months

See the guide

About these numbers

Names, height, width, river	Wikidata (Q7690662) · 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.