Canada Waterfall

Bloody Fall

One of the waterfalls of Canada.

When to go

D. Gordon E. Robertson · CC BY-SA 3.0

In numbers.

Jun–Aug

Best months

Elevation

The water at Bloody Fall, month by month

It roars from May to July.

The fullest months: from May to July, with the snowmelt. The thinnest: from October to April. Below −4 °C on average (from October to April): the falls can partly freeze.

0%Jan
0%Feb
4%Mar
15%Apr
83%May
100%Jun
75%Jul
62%Aug
34%Sep
16%Oct
4%Nov
1%Dec

high water best months to go may freeze

Best months to go, with plenty of water and pleasant days: from June to August.

Estimate from rain, snowmelt and evaporation month by month (NASA POWER, 1991–2020) around the falls. Dams upstream can change the real flow.

Waterfall

Bloody Fall is a waterfall in Canada.

Getting there.

Kugluktuknearest town · 15 km in a straight line
From June to Augustbest months to go (estimate)

Plan your visit

Stay, explore and get there

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Seen from the sky.

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

Bloody Fall seen from above (Sentinel-2)

N 2 km

Other fallsCampsites

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

The Coppermine 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 5 m in 3.6 km. Here the river runs about 22 m below the lower rim of its valley.

What is around.

—viewpoints
—waymarked walking routes
—car parks
—swimming spots
—picnic sites
—toilets
—information boards and visitor centres
—bus stops within 1 km
—other named waterfalls within 4 km
—caves
1campsites
—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

Kugluktuk15 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	-25	-24	-17	-7	3	14	17	14	6	-5	-18	-23
Night °C	-31	-31	-26	-16	-4	5	8	6	0	-11	-24	-29
Rain & snow (mm)	17	13	19	23	36	54	70	77	48	39	21	17
Wet days	5	4	6	6	10	12	14	14	12	10	6	5
Sun h/day	1.0	4.2	9.1	13.9	14.2	9.9	8.7	5.9	3.6	1.2	1.3	0.7
Snow on the ground (cm)	42	47	50	50	25	4	1	2	11	21	29	36

Long-term averages 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) for a cell about 55 km wide, with temperatures carried to the height of the falls (8 m) at −6.5 °C per 1,000 m. Not a forecast.

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	91%	65%	105%	59%	103%	125%	208%	80%	102%	152%	46%	89%
2021	106%	80%	106%	122%	85%	135%	117%	51%	85%	126%	93%	52%
2022	119%	86%	88%	117%	82%	145%	50%	72%	159%	189%	107%	98%
2023	72%	62%	72%	142%	135%	127%	19%	90%	184%	176%	136%	169%
2024	78%	134%	67%	62%	94%	71%	95%	65%	197%	96%	222%	121%
2025	135%	105%	94%	116%	131%	76%	88%	55%	155%	78%	139%	65%

130% wetter than usual 70% drier than usual

About these numbers

Names, height, width, river	Wikidata (Q885263) · CC0
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.