Lake · Afar Region

Lake Karum

-125 m-410 ft

Area: 65 km²
Tonight: 33°CPartly cloudy · Wind 26 km/h SE

Lake Karum is a lake at -125 m above sea level in Afar Region, Ethiopia, 65 km² in area and 19.1 km long.

All facts

Surface elevation: -125 m
Length: 19.1 km
Shoreline: 52.8 km

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Lake

Lake Karum in numbers

Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.

Shoreline: 52.8 km

3D map

Lake Karum 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Lake Karum 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.

Index contours every 100 mShowing west → east through the centre

Lake Karum elevation profile

West → east through the centre

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Weather

Lake Karum weather

Tonight · Partly cloudy · 33°C (91°F) · Wind 26 km/h SE

Lake Karum forecast for about -125 m.

Tonight33°–26 km/h SE
Today32°41°0.1 mm30 km/h SE
Sun31°41°–34 km/h SE
Mon30°40°–31 km/h S
Tue33°41°–33 km/h S
Wed32°41°–32 km/h S
Thu32°41°–30 km/h S
Fri30°41°–25 km/h S
Sat30°41°–17 km/h S
Sun29°41°–12 km/h SE

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, 23:18 UTC.

Slope

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

Mostly gentle: 99% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°

98.6%

Moderate, 15–30°

1.3%

Steep, 30–45°

0.1%

Cliffs, 45° and over

0.0%

Steeper than 30°: 0.1% of the 400 km² view
Relief in view: 372 m low point -127 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Bare rock / sparse 73.6%Water 25.6%

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

Where it sits

Where Lake Karum sits

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Ras DashenPeak · 4,533 m239 km WSW

Downloads

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Print & wall

JPGLake Karum satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2025-12-25.

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GIS & GPS

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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 2025 (scene 2025-12-25)
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
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: Wikidata · GeoNames · Wikipedia