
In numbers.
19m
Height
OpenStreetMap
Jun–Sep
Best months
392m
Elevation
The water at Beauchamp Falls, month by month
It roars from June to September.
The fullest months: from June to September.
- 31%Jan
- 28%Feb
- 30%Mar
- 45%Apr
- 61%May
- 81%Jun
- 92%Jul
- 100%Aug
- 86%Sep
- 67%Oct
- 57%Nov
- 42%Dec
Best months to go, with plenty of water and pleasant days: from June to September.
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 Great Otway National Park
Beauchamp Falls is a waterfall in Australia. The water falls 19 m. It lies within Great Otway National Park.
Getting there.
- Apollo Baynearest town · 13 km in a straight line
- Parking 500 m awaynearest car park in OpenStreetMap, straight line
- Melbourne Avalon International Airport (AVV)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 101 km in a straight lineCar hire at AVV airport (Geelong/Melbourne)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From June to Septemberbest 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 as mapped in OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors). Buildings and the person are drawn at the same scale.
Seen from the sky.
8 × 8 km of cloud-free satellite image, with what OpenStreetMap knows around the falls.
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Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 8 × 8 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.
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.
Around the falls the river drops 106 m in 2.7 km. Here the river runs about 80 m below the lower rim of its valley.
What is around.
- 1viewpoints
- —waymarked walking routes
- 1car parks
- —swimming spots
- —picnic sites
- 1toilets
- —information boards and visitor centres
- —bus stops within 1 km
- 10other named waterfalls within 4 kmCongram Falls, Eberwaldt Falls, Hopetoun Falls and 7 more
- —caves
- 1campsitesBeauchamp Falls Campround
- —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).
Towns nearby
- Apollo Bay13 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 | 22 | 21 | 20 | 16 | 13 | 11 | 10 | 11 | 13 | 15 | 18 | 19 |
| Night °C | 12 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 10 |
| Rain & snow (mm) | 44 | 44 | 45 | 60 | 65 | 76 | 80 | 86 | 72 | 63 | 64 | 50 |
| Wet days | 7 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 9 |
| Sun h/day | 9.5 | 8.4 | 7.2 | 5.7 | 4.4 | 3.9 | 4.0 | 5.0 | 6.1 | 7.5 | 7.9 | 9.0 |
Long-term averages 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) for a cell about 55 km wide, with temperatures carried to the height of the falls (392 m) at −6.5 °C per 1,000 m. Not a forecast.
Photos
Through visitors' eyes.
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 | 128% | 280% | 148% | 211% | 65% | 42% | 35% | 72% | 99% | 148% | 111% | 107% |
| 2021 | 257% | 27% | 114% | 41% | 131% | 76% | 93% | 34% | 90% | 156% | 108% | 43% |
| 2022 | 267% | 21% | 142% | 68% | 52% | 59% | 55% | 84% | 90% | 331% | 186% | 87% |
| 2023 | 59% | 97% | 93% | 82% | 65% | 99% | 32% | 25% | 21% | 86% | 79% | 210% |
| 2024 | 166% | 7% | 9% | 118% | 39% | 19% | 67% | 30% | 61% | 80% | 94% | 55% |
| 2025 | 51% | 88% | 70% | 37% | 24% | 100% | 64% | 53% | 62% | 96% | 160% | 60% |
130% wetter than usual 70% drier than usual
Compare with the waterfalls nearby.
About these numbers
| Names, height, width, river | Wikidata (Q84415682) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Height of the drop | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| 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.
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