Lake · Tanzania

Lake Tanganyika

770 m2,526 ft

Area: 32,732 km²
Max depth: 570 m
Tonight: 22°CPartly cloudy · Wind 13 km/h SW

Lake Tanganyika is a lake at 770 m above sea level in Tanzania, 32,732 km² in area and 641.3 km long.

All facts

Surface elevation: 770 m
Length: 641.3 km
Shoreline: 2,221.7 km

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3D map

Lake Tanganyika 3D map

Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 20 × 20 km

Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Lake Tanganyika topographic map

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 Tanganyika elevation profile

West → east through the centre

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Downloads

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

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Print & wall

JPGLake Tanganyika satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-06-30.

3D printing & 3D apps

GIS & GPS

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Lake

Lake Tanganyika in numbers

Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.

Shoreline: 2,221.7 km

Weather

Lake Tanganyika weather

Tonight · Partly cloudy · 22°C (72°F) · Wind 13 km/h SW

Lake Tanganyika forecast for about 770 m.

Tonight22°–13 km/h SW
Today22°30°–18 km/h E
Sun24°31°–29 km/h SE
Mon24°30°0.3 mm30 km/h SE
Tue24°30°3.2 mm8 km/h E
Wed23°27°2.7 mm15 km/h W
Thu23°26°3.6 mm11 km/h N
Fri22°26°2.4 mm10 km/h NE
Sat22°26°11.2 mm4 km/h NW
Sun22°26°21.2 mm10 km/h E

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: 95% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°

94.7%

Moderate, 15–30°

5.1%

Steep, 30–45°

0.1%

Cliffs, 45° and over

0.0%

Steeper than 30°: 0.1% of the 400 km² view
Relief in view: 406 m low point 770 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Water 59.5%Grassland 20.6%Trees 16.6%Cropland 1.9%Shrubland 1.0%

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

Where it sits

Where Lake Tanganyika 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 2026-06-30)
Land cover: © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts: Wikidata (CC0)
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