Lake · Tanzania

Lake Malawi

475 m1,558 ft

Area: 29,398 km²
Max depth: 704 m
Tonight: 26°CClear · Wind 18 km/h S

Lake Malawi is a lake at 475 m above sea level in Tanzania, 29,398 km² in area and 563.8 km long.

All facts

Surface elevation: 475 m
Length: 563.8 km
Shoreline: 1,819.1 km

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3D map

Lake Malawi 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Lake Malawi 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 Malawi elevation profile

West → east through the centre

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Downloads

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Print & wall

JPGLake Malawi satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-07-16.

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GIS & GPS

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Lake

Lake Malawi in numbers

Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.

Shoreline: 1,819.1 km

Weather

Lake Malawi weather

Tonight · Clear · 26°C (79°F) · Wind 18 km/h S

Lake Malawi forecast for about 475 m.

Tonight26°–18 km/h S
Today27°34°–29 km/h SE
Sun27°31°0.6 mm29 km/h SE
Mon25°32°0.7 mm24 km/h E
Tue26°32°0.3 mm21 km/h NE
Wed26°32°–16 km/h NE
Thu28°32°3.1 mm21 km/h SE
Fri26°30°0.1 mm23 km/h SE
Sat26°30°2.1 mm22 km/h SE
Sun26°30°4.5 mm8 km/h NE

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.

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°

99.9%

Moderate, 15–30°

0.1%

Steep, 30–45°

0.0%

Cliffs, 45° and over

0.0%

Steeper than 30°: 0.0% of the 400 km² view
Relief in view: 79 m low point 474 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Water 68.7%Cropland 15.6%Grassland 6.2%Shrubland 5.6%Trees 2.4%Built-up 0.7%Wetland 0.7%

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

Where it sits

Where Lake Malawi 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 2026-07-16)
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 · Wikipedia