Malham Tarn
- Area
- 0.61 km²
- Tonight
- 3°CPartly cloudy · Wind 23 km/h W
Malham Tarn is a lake at 374 m above sea level in England, United Kingdom, 0.61 km² in area and 1.1 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 374 m
- Length
- 1.1 km
- Shoreline
- 3.7 km
Malham Tarn in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 3.7 km≈1 h to walk around
Malham Tarn 3D map
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Malham Tarn terrain and contours
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.
Malham Tarn elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Malham Tarn weather
Tonight · Partly cloudy · 3°C (37°F) · Wind 23 km/h W
Malham Tarn forecast for about 374 m.
- Tonight3°–23 km/h W
- Today4°9°33.2 mm53 km/h W
- Sun6°8°3.6 mm50 km/h W
- Mon6°13°11.5 mm34 km/h SW
- Tue7°12°17.8 mm37 km/h SW
- Wed9°10°4.2 mm30 km/h SW
- Thu8°10°0.3 mm14 km/h SE
- Fri8°10°4.5 mm20 km/h SE
- Sat4°9°9.2 mm22 km/h SE
- Sun3°7°0.1 mm24 km/h NW
Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 24, 01:17 UTC.
Camping & parking near Malham Tarn
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Malham Tarn, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
Water Sinks
Nearest campsite
Riverside Campsite
Nearest caravan site
Langcliffe Park
All mapped places 8
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Water SinksParking | 0.9 km SSE |
| Parking | 1.0 km WNW |
| Parking | 1.0 km NW |
| Riverside CampsiteCampsite | 3.5 km SSE |
| Campsite | 6.8 km ENE |
| Langcliffe ParkCaravan site | 7.5 km WSW |
| Stackhouse Farm CampsiteCaravan site | 7.6 km W |
| Knight Stainforth Hall Camping & Caravan ParkCaravan site | 7.6 km W |
Slope
Share of the 4 × 4 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 96% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 0.2% of the 16 km² view
- Relief in view
- 203 m low point 324 m
Land cover
ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.
Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 2 km; 502 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Bogbean39
- Marsh grass-of-Parnassus30
- Mountain Pansy29
- Bird's-eye Primrose28
- Marsh Lousewort28
- Northern Wheatear25
Where Malham Tarn sits
- Region
- England120United Kingdom371Europe2,143
Nearby places
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- Terrain
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- Imagery
- Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2025 (scene 2025-09-22)
- Land cover
- © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
- Facts
- Wikidata (CC0)
- Camping & parking, Geometry
- © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
- Summits
- © OpenStreetMap contributors, via Overture Maps Foundation (ODbL)
- Wildlife
- iNaturalist community observations, counts only
- Forecast
- Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)