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Öskjuvatn
- Area
- 12 km²
- Max depth
- 220 m
- Tonight
- -12°CFog · Wind 6 km/h NW
Öskjuvatn is a lake at 1,056 m above sea level in Northeastern Region, Iceland, 12 km² in area and 4.6 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 1,056 m
- Length
- 4.6 km
- Shoreline
- 14.5 km
Öskjuvatn in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 14.5 km≈3¾ h to walk around
Öskjuvatn 3D map
Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 6.6 × 6.6 km
Öskjuvatn terrain and contours
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.
Öskjuvatn elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Öskjuvatn weather
Tonight · Fog · -12°C (10°F) · Wind 6 km/h NW
Öskjuvatn forecast for about 1,056 m.
- Tonight-12°–6 km/h NW
- Sat-12°-7°1.0 mm20 km/h NW
- Sun-6°-5°16.5 mm23 km/h W
- Mon-7°-5°3.6 mm18 km/h NW
- Tue-3°-3°7.9 mm12 km/h NW
- Wed-8°-5°0.7 mm13 km/h SE
- Thu-1°2°20.5 mm31 km/h SE
- Fri-7°-2°–19 km/h E
- Sat-6°-3°2.1 mm10 km/h W
- Sun-10°-4°–6 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 23, 23:18 UTC.
Camping & parking near Öskjuvatn
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Öskjuvatn, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
4.1 km NNE
Nearest hut
Drekaskáli
Nearest campsite
Drekaskáli Warden Cabin
All mapped places 7
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Parking | 4.1 km NNE |
| DrekaskáliHut | 7.2 km E |
| DrekiHut | 7.2 km E |
| Hut | 7.2 km E |
| Drekaskáli Warden CabinCampsite | 7.2 km E |
| Parking | 7.2 km E |
| DrekaskáliCampsite | 7.3 km E |
Slope
Share of the 6.6 × 6.6 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 72% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 7.0% of the 44 km² view
- Relief in view
- 536 m low point 970 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.
Where Öskjuvatn sits
- Region
- Northeastern Region8Iceland45Europe2,143
- Protected area
- Vatnajökull National Park11
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- 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 2026-08-25)
- 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)