Lake · Alberta

Lake Athabasca

207 m679 ft

Area: 7,564 km²
Max depth: 243 m
Tonight: 1°CHeavy sleet · Wind 59 km/h NE

Lake Athabasca is a lake at 207 m above sea level in Alberta, Canada, 7,564 km² in area and 313.6 km long.

All facts

Surface elevation: 207 m
Length: 313.6 km
Shoreline: 2,395.3 km

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3D map

Lake Athabasca 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Lake Athabasca topographic map

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.

Index contours every 25 mShowing west → east through the centre

Lake Athabasca elevation profile

West → east through the centre

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Downloads

Lake Athabasca downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM

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Print & wall

JPGLake Athabasca satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-09-24.

3D printing & 3D apps

GIS & GPS

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Lake

Lake Athabasca in numbers

Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.

Shoreline: 2,395.3 km

Weather

Lake Athabasca weather

Tonight · Heavy sleet · 1°C (34°F) · 25.4 mm · Wind 59 km/h NE

Lake Athabasca forecast for about 207 m.

Tonight1°25.4 mm59 km/h NE
Sat-1°0°13.7 mm58 km/h N
Sun-2°0°–30 km/h S
Mon-2°3°–26 km/h S
Tue1°3°7.5 mm19 km/h N
Wed0°2°4.7 mm26 km/h N
Thu-1°-1°3.8 mm16 km/h NE
Fri-3°-1°0.5 mm23 km/h S
Sat-2°1°–26 km/h S
Sun0°3°–20 km/h S

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.

Slope

Share of the 20 × 20 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mostly gentle: 100% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°

100.0%

Moderate, 15–30°

0.0%

Steep, 30–45°

0.0%

Cliffs, 45° and over

0.0%

Steeper than 30°: 0.0% of the 400 km² view
Relief in view: 63 m low point 207 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Water 80.5%Trees 9.7%Moss & lichen 2.9%Bare rock / sparse 2.7%Grassland 1.8%Shrubland 1.7%Wetland 0.7%

Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.

Where it sits

Where Lake Athabasca sits

Sources

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 2026-09-24)
Land cover: © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts: Wikidata (CC0)
Wildlife: iNaturalist community observations, counts only
Forecast: Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)
Sources: Wikidata · GeoNames · Wikipedia