Angel Falls

Venezuela

The world's highest uninterrupted waterfall plunging off a massive flat-topped tepui deep in the jungle.

Warmest month is March at 28°C on average. Coolest is January at 26°C. Driest reading falls in February with 8 rain days.

Six lead datapoints

  • Flight timeMethodology
    10h 30m from London Heathrow
    Great-circle plus routing overhead.
  • 2,895 kg return from London Heathrow
    DEFRA 2024 economy factors, includes radiative forcing.
  • FCDO advises against all travel.
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  • Do not drink from the tap; use bottled or treated water.
MonthAvg highSwingRain days
January26°±2°9
February27°±3°8
March28°±3°11
April28°±3°16
May27°±2°26
June26°±2°29
July26°±2°29
August27°±2°28
September28°±2°27
October28°±1°24
November27°±2°23
December26°±2°17

What to do

  • Take a motorized curiara canoe up the Churún River
  • Hike through the jungle to the main waterfall viewpoint
  • Fly over the Auyán-tepui plateau in a small Cessna

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.