Lake · Kenya

Lake Turkana

362 m1,188 ft

Area: 7,419 km²
Max depth: 109 m
Tonight: 29°CFair · Wind 15 km/h S

Lake Turkana is a lake at 362 m above sea level in Kenya, 7,419 km² in area and 252.5 km long.

All facts

Surface elevation: 362 m
Length: 252.5 km
Shoreline: 1,135.5 km

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3D map

Lake Turkana 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Lake Turkana 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 Turkana elevation profile

West → east through the centre

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Downloads

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Print & wall

JPGLake Turkana satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-01-15.

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GIS & GPS

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Lake

Lake Turkana in numbers

Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.

Shoreline: 1,135.5 km

Weather

Lake Turkana weather

Tonight · Fair · 29°C (84°F) · Wind 15 km/h S

Lake Turkana forecast for about 362 m.

Tonight29°–15 km/h S
Today25°36°3.6 mm31 km/h SE
Sun26°34°–27 km/h E
Mon27°34°3.7 mm30 km/h SE
Tue25°31°19.4 mm20 km/h SE
Wed26°31°5.2 mm15 km/h SE
Thu25°30°4.3 mm16 km/h SE
Fri28°32°–17 km/h SE
Sat28°33°–17 km/h S
Sun28°32°–17 km/h S

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: 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: 266 m low point 362 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Water 55.6%Bare rock / sparse 31.0%Grassland 10.3%Shrubland 2.3%Wetland 0.7%

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

Where it sits

Where Lake Turkana sits

Nearby

Nearby places

Suguta Valley224 km SSE

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 2026-01-15)
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