Lake · Manyara Region

Lake Manyara

955 m3,133 ft

Area: 554 km²
Tonight: 23°CFair · Wind 20 km/h E

Lake Manyara is a lake at 955 m above sea level in Manyara Region, Tanzania, 554 km² in area and 51.0 km long.

All facts

Surface elevation: 955 m
Length: 51.0 km
Shoreline: 156.4 km

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3D map

Lake Manyara 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Lake Manyara topographic map

2 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 10 mShowing west → east through the centre

Lake Manyara elevation profile

West → east through the centre

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Downloads

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

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Print & wall

JPGLake Manyara satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-07-21.

3D printing & 3D apps

GIS & GPS

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Lake

Lake Manyara in numbers

Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.

Shoreline: 156.4 km

Weather

Lake Manyara weather

Tonight · Fair · 23°C (73°F) · Wind 20 km/h E

Lake Manyara forecast for about 955 m.

Tonight23°–20 km/h E
Today22°36°–30 km/h E
Sun22°36°–32 km/h SE
Mon22°33°17.2 mm16 km/h SE
Tue20°32°14.5 mm17 km/h SW
Wed22°31°2.6 mm9 km/h SW
Thu22°27°8.2 mm9 km/h NE
Fri20°31°6.0 mm9 km/h S
Sat20°27°15.2 mm10 km/h E
Sun20°28°34.0 mm13 km/h N

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°

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: 56 m low point 955 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Water 58.9%Grassland 31.2%Cropland 4.7%Shrubland 3.2%Bare rock / sparse 1.6%

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

Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 10 km; 277 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6

African Savanna Elephant138
Olive Baboon71
Maasai Giraffe70
Plains Zebra67
African Buffalo51
Blue Monkey43

Where it sits

Where Lake Manyara sits

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Mount LongidoPeak · 2,637 m136 km NE

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 2026-07-21)
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