Grafham Water
- Area
- 6.14 km²
- Tonight
- 6°CPartly cloudy · Wind 25 km/h W
Grafham Water is a lake at 40 m above sea level in United Kingdom, 6.14 km² in area and 4.8 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 40 m
- Length
- 4.8 km
- Shoreline
- 14.7 km
Grafham Water in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 14.7 km≈3¾ h to walk around
Grafham Water 3D map
Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 6.8 × 6.8 km
Grafham Water terrain and contours
5 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.
Grafham Water elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Grafham Water weather
Tonight · Partly cloudy · 6°C (43°F) · Wind 25 km/h W
Grafham Water forecast for about 40 m.
- Tonight6°–25 km/h W
- Today6°12°12.3 mm39 km/h S
- Sun7°12°–42 km/h W
- Mon9°16°6.3 mm28 km/h SW
- Tue9°15°1.0 mm33 km/h SW
- Wed9°15°–23 km/h SW
- Thu8°12°0.2 mm10 km/h E
- Fri8°13°2.1 mm14 km/h SE
- Sat7°10°13.1 mm17 km/h NW
- Sun5°11°–24 km/h NW
Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 24, 01:17 UTC.
Camping & parking near Grafham Water
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Grafham Water, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
Mander Car Park
Nearest caravan site
Grafham Water Caravan and Motorhome Club
Nearest campsite
Top End Farm Campsite
All mapped places 7
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Mander Car ParkParking | 1.1 km SW |
| Parking | 1.3 km N |
| Marlow Car ParkParking | 1.6 km E |
| Grafham Water Caravan and Motorhome ClubCaravan site | 1.6 km NNE |
| Caravan site | 4.7 km NE |
| Caravan site | 5.3 km SE |
| Top End Farm CampsiteCampsite | 7.8 km SSW |
Slope
Share of the 6.8 × 6.8 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 100% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 0.0% of the 46 km² view
- Relief in view
- 67 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.
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 3.4 km; 517 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Common Blue Damselfly23
- Tufted Duck20
- Great Cormorant19
- Mallard19
- Ring-necked Pheasant18
- Great Crested Grebe18
Where Grafham Water sits
- Region
- United Kingdom371Europe2,143
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 2026-08-13)
- 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)
- Wildlife
- iNaturalist community observations, counts only
- Forecast
- Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)