Guinea 
In numbers.
Jul–Sep
Best months
487m
Elevation
The water at Tinkisso Falls, month by month
It roars from August to September.
The fullest months: from August to September. The thinnest: from November to May.
- 0%Jan
- 0%Feb
- 0%Mar
- 1%Apr
- 11%May
- 34%Jun
- 67%Jul
- 100%Aug
- 88%Sep
- 44%Oct
- 13%Nov
- 2%Dec
Best months to go, with plenty of water and pleasant days: from July 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.
Getting there.
- Dabolanearest town · 7.0 km in a straight line
- Ahmed Sékou Touré International Airport (CKY)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 296 km in a straight line
- From July to Septemberbest months to go (estimate)
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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 69 m in 3.6 km. Here the river runs about 42 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
- —campsites
- —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
- Dabola7.0 km in a straight line
- Dogomet16 km in a straight line
- Arfa Moussaïa22 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 | 32 | 35 | 38 | 37 | 34 | 30 | 28 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 |
| Night °C | 16 | 19 | 22 | 23 | 23 | 22 | 21 | 20 | 20 | 21 | 19 | 16 |
| Rain & snow (mm) | 3 | 4 | 5 | 34 | 128 | 246 | 378 | 486 | 334 | 114 | 21 | 1 |
| Wet days | 1 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 22 | 28 | 30 | 31 | 29 | 22 | 5 | 0 |
| Sun h/day | 8.6 | 8.7 | 8.7 | 8.4 | 7.7 | 6.5 | 5.5 | 5.1 | 6.2 | 7.2 | 8.3 | 8.8 |
Long-term averages 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) for a cell about 55 km wide, with temperatures carried to the height of the falls (487 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 | — | — | 162% | 270% | 439% | 81% | 108% | 83% | 150% | 97% | 4% | — |
| 2021 | — | — | 50% | 190% | 146% | 134% | 214% | 164% | 168% | 220% | 21% | — |
| 2022 | — | — | 62% | 32% | 116% | 70% | 88% | 168% | 112% | 229% | 101% | — |
| 2023 | — | — | 304% | 133% | 293% | 123% | 114% | 87% | 192% | 293% | 114% | — |
| 2024 | — | — | 6% | 284% | 132% | 191% | 148% | 136% | 163% | 207% | 18% | — |
| 2025 | — | — | 824% | 260% | 78% | 59% | 94% | 97% | 126% | 143% | 489% | — |
130% wetter than usual 70% drier than usual
Compare with the waterfalls nearby.
Tinkisso Falls
Guinea
- —Height
- —Average flow
- Jul–SepBest months
About these numbers
| Names, height, width, river | Wikidata (Q37987) · 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.
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