Kleifarvatn
- Area
- 8.39 km²
- Max depth
- 97 m
- Tonight
- -4°CPartly cloudy · Wind 17 km/h E
Kleifarvatn is a lake at 136 m above sea level in Southern Peninsula Region, Iceland, 8.39 km² in area and 4.8 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 136 m
- Length
- 4.8 km
- Shoreline
- 15.1 km
Kleifarvatn in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 15.1 km≈3¾ h to walk around
Kleifarvatn 3D map
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Kleifarvatn terrain and contours
20 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.
Kleifarvatn elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Kleifarvatn weather
Tonight · Partly cloudy · -4°C (25°F) · Wind 17 km/h E
Kleifarvatn forecast for about 136 m.
- Tonight-4°–17 km/h E
- Sat-3°1°–27 km/h N
- Sun-4°1°–27 km/h NW
- Mon-3°1°–15 km/h SW
- Tue0°2°0.1 mm14 km/h NW
- Wed2°5°42.0 mm41 km/h SE
- Thu4°8°20.3 mm60 km/h SE
- Fri2°5°13.4 mm23 km/h SE
- Sat1°3°0.2 mm5 km/h W
- Sun1°2°0.7 mm22 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 Kleifarvatn
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Kleifarvatn, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
1.2 km WNW
Slope
Share of the 6.8 × 6.8 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 79% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 2.6% of the 46 km² view
- Relief in view
- 310 m low point 136 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.
Nearby summits
Named peaks within 3.4 km of Kleifarvatn.
Summit list 4
- 1Stapatindur397 m 1.8 km NW
- 2Gullbringa310 m 2.3 km SE
- 3Hellutindar364 m 2.6 km N
- 4Miðdegishnúkur392 m 2.9 km WSW
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 3.4 km; 70 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Sea Campion21
- Sea Thrift19
- Nootka Lupine16
- Mother of Thyme16
- Ruddy Turnstone12
- Alpine Lady's-mantle12
Where Kleifarvatn sits
- Region
- Southern Peninsula Region4Iceland45Europe2,143
Nearby places
Kleifarvatn 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)
- Wildlife
- iNaturalist community observations, counts only
- Forecast
- Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)