Lake · Amhara Region

Lake Tana

1,785 m5,856 ft

Area: 3,075 km²
Max depth: 14 m
Tonight: 17°CCloudy · Wind 18 km/h S

Lake Tana is a lake at 1,785 m above sea level in Amhara Region, Ethiopia, 3,075 km² in area and 79.4 km long.

All facts

Surface elevation: 1,785 m
Length: 79.4 km
Shoreline: 547.3 km

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3D map

Lake Tana 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Lake Tana topographic map

10 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 50 mShowing west → east through the centre

Lake Tana elevation profile

West → east through the centre

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Downloads

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Print & wall

JPGLake Tana satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-03-08.

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GIS & GPS

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Lake

Lake Tana in numbers

Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.

Shoreline: 547.3 km

Weather

Lake Tana weather

Tonight · Cloudy · 17°C (63°F) · Wind 18 km/h S

Lake Tana forecast for about 1,785 m.

Tonight17°–18 km/h S
Today16°26°–18 km/h NW
Sun17°26°–23 km/h SE
Mon18°25°0.1 mm16 km/h NW
Tue17°25°0.3 mm14 km/h SE
Wed16°23°1.5 mm17 km/h N
Thu16°25°0.1 mm11 km/h S
Fri16°25°0.4 mm11 km/h N
Sat17°25°0.2 mm12 km/h NW
Sun17°25°–10 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°

99.7%

Moderate, 15–30°

0.2%

Steep, 30–45°

0.0%

Cliffs, 45° and over

0.0%

Steeper than 30°: 0.0% of the 400 km² view
Relief in view: 155 m low point 1,784 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Water 60.8%Cropland 25.8%Shrubland 7.3%Wetland 2.7%Trees 2.6%Grassland 0.7%

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

Where it sits

Where Lake Tana sits

Nearby

Nearby places

Ras DashenPeak · 4,533 m199 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 2026-03-08)
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