Apavatn
- Area
- 14 km²
- Max depth
- 3 m
- Tonight
- -1°CLight snow · Wind 19 km/h NW
Apavatn is a lake at 60 m above sea level in Iceland, 14 km² in area and 6.9 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 60 m
- Length
- 6.9 km
- Shoreline
- 24.1 km
Apavatn in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 24.1 km≈6 h to walk around
Apavatn 3D map
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Apavatn terrain and contours
10 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.
Apavatn elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Apavatn weather
Today · Light snow at night · -1 / 3°C (30 / 37°F) · 0.6 mm · Wind 19 km/h NW
Apavatn forecast for about 60 m.
- Today-1°3°0.6 mm19 km/h NW
- Mon-2°1°1.1 mm13 km/h NW
- Tue1°3°0.8 mm14 km/h NW
- Wed0°3°10.7 mm18 km/h NE
- Thu3°9°54.6 mm24 km/h E
- Fri1°3°36.2 mm12 km/h E
- Sat-1°2°4.2 mm14 km/h E
- Sun1°3°29.5 mm13 km/h E
- Mon0°4°4.5 mm15 km/h S
- Tue1°2°2.3 mm7 km/h NE
Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 25, 11:18 UTC.
Camping & parking near Apavatn
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Apavatn, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
1.0 km N
Nearest caravan site
6.3 km NW
Nearest campsite
Laugarvatn
All mapped places 5
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Parking | 1.0 km N |
| Parking | 5.7 km NW |
| Parking | 5.7 km NW |
| Caravan site | 6.3 km NW |
| LaugarvatnCampsite | 6.4 km NW |
Slope
Share of the 8.9 × 8.9 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 99% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 0.0% of the 79 km² view
- Relief in view
- 202 m low point 49 m
Land cover
ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.
Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.
Where Apavatn sits
Nearby places
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Data sources
- Terrain
- Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
- Imagery
- Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (scene 2026-09-08)
- Land cover
- © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
- Facts
- Wikidata (CC0)
- Camping & parking, Geometry
- © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
- Summits
- © OpenStreetMap contributors, via Overture Maps Foundation (ODbL)
- Panorama
- Includes Copernicus WorldDEM-90 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
- Forecast
- Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)