Ghana Waterfall

Wli waterfalls

A 80 m drop.

When to go

Veennema · CC BY-SA 3.0

In numbers.

80m

Height

0.66m³/s

Average flow

estimate

Jul–Oct

Best months

518kW

Water power

estimate

The water at Wli waterfalls, month by month

It roars from June to October.

The fullest months: from June to October. The thinnest: from December to March.

0.2 m³/sJan
0.2 m³/sFeb
0.3 m³/sMar
0.5 m³/sApr
0.7 m³/sMay
1.0 m³/sJun
1.2 m³/sJul
1.1 m³/sAug
1.3 m³/sSep
1.1 m³/sOct
0.6 m³/sNov
0.2 m³/sDec

high water best months to go

From about 0.16 m³/s in the lowest month to 1.3 m³/s in the highest. Best months to go, with plenty of water and pleasant days: from July to October.

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.

Highest waterfall in Ghana

Wli waterfalls is a waterfall in Ghana. The water falls 80 m.

Getting there.

Adétanearest town · 14 km in a straight line
Lomé–Tokoin International Airport (LFW)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 127 km in a straight lineCar hire at LFW airport (Lomé)Discover Cars · Affiliate link
From July to Octoberbest months to go (estimate)

Plan your visit

Stay, explore and get there

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How big is it?

How big it really is.

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

518 kW

About 0.66 m³/s falling 80 m: the power of the water as it drops.

enough to power about 129 homes, if it were all turned into electricity

Power of falling water = density × gravity × flow × height. Average flow and height as shown above; an estimate.

Seen from the sky.

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

Wli waterfalls seen from above (Sentinel-2)

N 2 km

ViewpointsOther falls

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

The 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 342 m in 1.9 km. Here the river runs about 212 m below the lower rim of its valley.

What is around.

2viewpointsChutes d'Yikpa
—waymarked walking routes
—car parks
—swimming spots
—picnic sites
—toilets
—information boards and visitor centres
—bus stops within 1 km
3other named waterfalls within 4 kmWli Falls - Upper Falls, Wli Falls - Lower Falls, cascade de yikpa
—caves
—campsites
8hotels, B&Bs and huts within 6 kmWater Heights Hotel & Restaurant, Waterfall Lodge Wli-Afegame, Trust lodge and 5 more
—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

Adéta14 km in a straight line
Danyi-Apéyémé14 km in a straight line
Hohoe16 km in a straight line
Kpalimé23 km in a straight line
Elavagnon23 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	30	31	30	30	29	27	26	27	27	27	29	30
Night °C	19	21	22	22	22	21	20	20	20	21	21	20
Rain & snow (mm)	14	28	72	100	134	172	190	139	202	145	32	14
Wet days	4	8	17	24	27	28	27	26	28	26	9	3
Sun h/day	7.0	6.5	6.6	6.7	6.6	5.4	4.0	3.6	4.4	6.4	7.8	7.4

Long-term averages 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) for a cell about 55 km wide, with temperatures carried to the height of the falls (445 m) at −6.5 °C per 1,000 m. Not a forecast.

Photos

Through visitors' eyes.

A glimpse at the Fall (Wli) — Blaq dynamite · CC BY-SA 4.0

A shower in the upper fall-1 — Stig Nygaard · CC BY 2.0

Am example of the rich timber around the falls — Blaq dynamite · 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	16%	80%	113%	102%	208%	158%	68%	30%	73%	120%	97%	128%
2021	257%	51%	177%	86%	48%	67%	83%	117%	86%	91%	168%	57%
2022	206%	87%	114%	163%	99%	125%	77%	141%	135%	139%	75%	100%
2023	75%	36%	94%	138%	65%	117%	149%	150%	158%	100%	264%	37%
2024	24%	58%	127%	100%	103%	99%	57%	63%	113%	190%	24%	2%
2025	33%	141%	148%	86%	89%	109%	67%	51%	114%	84%	146%	205%

130% wetter than usual 70% drier than usual

Compare with the waterfalls nearby.

Wli waterfalls

Ghana

80 mHeight
0.66 m³/sAverage flow
Jul–OctBest months

Tagbo Falls

Ghana

60 mHeight
—Average flow
Jul–OctBest months

See the guide

Kpimé Waterfall

Togo

—Height
0.32 m³/sAverage flow
Jul–OctBest months

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Kamalo Falls

Togo

—Height
—Average flow
Jul–OctBest months

See the guide

About these numbers

Names, height, width, river	Wikidata (Q15560122) · 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.