The Highest Waterfalls in the World

The world's tallest waterfalls, by height.

The world's highest waterfalls, ranked by total height — Angel Falls in Venezuela drops farther than any other on Earth.

#	Place	Elevation (ft)
1	Angel Falls The world's tallest waterfall, plunging nearly a kilometre from a Venezuelan tepui	3,212 ft 979 m
2	Tugela Falls A towering tiered cascade in South Africa's Drakensberg, among the tallest on Earth	3,110 ft 948 m
3	Sutherland Falls New Zealand's tallest waterfall, a three-tiered cascade from a glacial lake in Fiordland	1,903 ft 580 m
4	Kaieteur Falls The world's most powerful single-drop waterfall, deep in the rainforest of Guyana	741 ft 226 m
5	Victoria Falls The largest sheet of falling water on Earth, where the Zambezi plunges into a chasm	354 ft 108 m
6	Iguazu Falls A vast chain of hundreds of waterfalls on the Argentina-Brazil border	269 ft 82 m
7	Niagara Falls Thundering falls on the US-Canada border, famed for sheer volume rather than height	187 ft 57 m
8	Gullfoss Iceland's thundering Golden Falls, plunging in two stages into a rugged canyon	105 ft 32 m

Figures are drawn from standard government and reference sources and shown in both imperial and metric units. See each entry for full details and citations. Browse all guides or open the explore map.