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.
Six lead datapoints
- CoffeeWorld Bank PPP baseline$1.75 (~$1.75)PPP price tier 1 / 4
- $2.25 (~$2.25)PPP price tier 1 / 4
- Flight timeMethodology10h from London HeathrowGreat-circle plus routing overhead.
- Flight CO2eDEFRA 2024 factors2,846 kg return from London HeathrowDEFRA 2024 economy factors, includes radiative forcing.
- Tap waterCDC / WHO guidanceDo not drink from the tap; use bottled or treated water.
| Month | Avg high | Swing | Rain days |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 27° | ±2° | · |
| February | 27° | ±2° | · |
| March | 28° | ±2° | · |
| April | 28° | ±3° | · |
| May | 28° | ±3° | · |
| June | 28° | ±2° | · |
| July | 28° | ±2° | · |
| August | 30° | ±2° | · |
| September | 31° | ±2° | · |
| October | 30° | ±2° | · |
| November | 29° | ±2° | · |
| December | 27° | ±2° | · |
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. Swing is the p10 to p90 range of daily highs, halved for the ± figure. Rain days count any day with at least 1 mm of precipitation.