Blue Lagoon
- Area
- 0.06 km²
- Tonight
- -3°CFog · Wind 18 km/h SE
Blue Lagoon is a lake at 23 m above sea level in Southern Peninsula Region, Iceland, 0.06 km² in area and 0.7 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 23 m
- Length
- 0.7 km
- Shoreline
- 5.9 km
Blue Lagoon in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 5.9 km≈1½ h to walk around
Blue Lagoon 3D map
Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 4 × 4 km
Blue Lagoon 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.
Blue Lagoon elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Blue Lagoon weather
Tonight · Fog · -3°C (27°F) · Wind 18 km/h SE
Blue Lagoon forecast for about 23 m.
- Tonight-3°–18 km/h SE
- Sat-2°2°–30 km/h N
- Sun-1°2°–24 km/h NW
- Mon-1°3°–16 km/h SW
- Tue2°4°0.8 mm12 km/h NW
- Wed3°6°27.1 mm46 km/h SE
- Thu6°9°14.1 mm64 km/h SE
- Fri4°6°13.7 mm26 km/h SE
- Sat2°4°0.3 mm8 km/h SW
- Sun3°4°0.6 mm27 km/h E
Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 23, 23:19 UTC.
Camping & parking near Blue Lagoon
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Blue Lagoon, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
The Retreat Carpark
Nearest campsite
Tjaldsvæðið í Grindavík
All mapped places 4
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| The Retreat CarparkParking | 0.4 km WNW |
| Parking | 0.5 km NNW |
| Parking | 0.7 km E |
| Tjaldsvæðið í GrindavíkCampsite | 4.2 km SSE |
Slope
Share of the 4 × 4 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 92% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 1.2% of the 16 km² view
- Relief in view
- 210 m low point 14 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 Blue Lagoon sits
- Region
- Southern Peninsula Region4Iceland45Europe2,143
Nearby places
Blue Lagoon downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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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)
- Sources
- Official website · Wikidata · GeoNames · Wikipedia