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Jökulsárlón
- Area
- 29 km²
- Max depth
- 260 m
- Tonight
- 0°CFog · Wind 18 km/h NW
Jökulsárlón is a lake at 0 m above sea level in Southern Region, Iceland, 29 km² in area and 8.4 km long.
All facts
- Length
- 8.4 km
- Shoreline
- 33.7 km
Jökulsárlón 3D map
Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 10.4 × 10.4 km
Jökulsárlón topographic map
25 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.
Jökulsárlón elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Jökulsárlón downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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Jökulsárlón in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap, surface from the 30 m terrain model.
- Surface elevation
- 0 m0 ft
- Shoreline
- 33.7 km≈8½ h to walk around
Jökulsárlón weather
Tonight · Fog · 0°C (32°F) · 0.6 mm · Wind 18 km/h NW
Jökulsárlón forecast for about 0 m.
- Tonight0°0.6 mm18 km/h NW
- Sat2°5°0.2 mm34 km/h N
- Sun3°6°0.8 mm35 km/h N
- Mon1°3°1.8 mm16 km/h N
- Tue6°7°0.8 mm15 km/h NW
- Wed5°7°21.2 mm12 km/h N
- Thu7°9°41.0 mm34 km/h SE
- Fri4°6°4.7 mm15 km/h NW
- Sat4°6°1.7 mm14 km/h NW
- Sun1°4°–16 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 23, 23:19 UTC.
Camping & parking near Jökulsárlón
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Jökulsárlón, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
Jökulsárlón parking
Nearest hut
Breidá
All mapped places 4
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Parking | 3.9 km S |
| Jökulsárlón parkingParking | 3.9 km SE |
| Parking | 3.9 km SE |
| BreidáHut | 5.6 km SW |
Slope
Share of the 10.4 × 10.4 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 98% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 0.9% of the 108 km² view
- Relief in view
- 680 m low point -2 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 5.2 km; 146 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Common Eider432
- Snow Bunting384
- Harbor Seal372
- Arctic Tern208
- Parasitic Jaeger123
- Black-legged Kittiwake120
Where Jökulsárlón sits
- Region
- Southern Region20Iceland45Europe2,143
- Protected area
- Vatnajökull National Park11
Nearby places
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 2026-08-10)
- 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
- 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)