Kaieteur Falls

    Guyana

    The world's largest single-drop waterfall by volume, plummeting furiously into a mist-filled gorge deep in the Amazon rainforest.

    Warmest month is September at 31°C on average. Coolest is January at 27°C.

    Costs and travel essentials

    • CoffeeWorld Bank PPP baseline
      $1.75 (~$1.75)
      Country-level price estimate for Guyana, 2026-07-11. Scaled from a US baseline, not a local survey.
    • BeerWorld Bank PPP baseline
      $2.25 (~$2.25)
      Country-level price estimate for Guyana, 2026-07-11. Scaled from a US baseline, not a local survey.
    • Flight timeMethodology
      10h from London Heathrow
      Great-circle plus routing overhead.
    • Flight CO2eDEFRA 2024 factors
      2,846 kg return from London Heathrow
      DEFRA 2024 economy factors, includes radiative forcing.
    • Tap waterCDC / WHO guidance
      Do not drink from the tap; use bottled or treated water.
    MonthAvg highDaily spreadRain days
    January27°3°C·
    February27°3°C·
    March28°4°C·
    April28°5°C·
    May28°5°C·
    June28°4°C·
    July28°4°C·
    August30°4°C·
    September31°3°C·
    October30°3°C·
    November29°4°C·
    December27°4°C·

    What to do

    • Take a propeller plane over the unbroken jungle canopy
    • View the thunderous 741-foot drop from multiple ledge viewpoints
    • Search for the tiny golden rocket frog in giant bromeliads
    • Look for brilliant Guianan cock-of-the-rock birds in the canopy

    How we know this

    Values are the average of the last ten calendar years of daily readings from Visual Crossing, snapped to the destination cluster. Daily spread is the width between the 10th and 90th percentiles of daily highs, not a forecast error margin. Rain days count any day with at least 1 mm of precipitation.