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Tempe Town Lake

344 m1,129 ft
Area
1.05 km²
Tonight
60°FClear · Wind 0 mph

Tempe Town Lake is a lake at 344 m above sea level in Arizona, United States, 1.05 km² in area and 3.6 km long.

All facts
Surface elevation
344 m
Length
3.6 km
Shoreline
8.5 km
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Lake

Tempe Town Lake in numbers

Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.

3.6 km longest1 kmN ↑
Shoreline
8.5 km≈2 h to walk around
3D map

Tempe Town Lake 3D map

Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 5.6 × 5.6 km

Surface
Vertical scale
Topographic map

Tempe Town Lake terrain and contours

5 m contours from the USGS 3DEP 10 m 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 25 mShowing west → east through the centre

Tempe Town Lake elevation profile

West → east through the centre

Hover the profile to read elevation and distance.Tap or drag along the profile to read elevation and distance.
Weather

Tempe Town Lake weather

Tonight · Clear · 60°F (16°C) · 1% chance of precipitation · Wind 0 mph

Tempe Town Lake forecast for about 364 m.

  • Tonight60°1%0 mph
  • Sat58°78°3%0–5 mph SSW
  • Sun60°81°–0–5 mph NNE
  • Mon62°84°–0–5 mph NNE
  • Tue64°86°–0–5 mph SE
  • Wed65°86°9%0–5 mph ESE
  • Thu65°83°31%0–5 mph SE

Forecast data: NOAA National Weather Service, public domain, model run Oct 23, 22:56 UTC.

Camping & parking

Camping & parking near Tempe Town Lake

Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Tempe Town Lake, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.

All mapped places 4
PlaceDistance
Parking0.2 km N
Parking0.3 km SW
Parking0.3 km NNW
Trailhead1.0 km W
Slope

Slope

Share of the 5.6 × 5.6 km view by steepness, from the 10 m model.

Mostly gentle: 98% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°
98.1%
Moderate, 15–30°
1.7%
Steep, 30–45°
0.2%
Cliffs, 45° and over
0.0%
Steeper than 30°
0.2% of the 31 km² view
Relief in view
112 m low point 342 m
Land cover

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Built-up 59.0%Bare rock / sparse 17.1%Trees 9.4%Shrubland 5.5%Water 3.9%Grassland 3.5%Cropland 1.6%

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

Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 2.8 km; 939 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6
  • Great-tailed Grackle776
  • Stinknet708
  • Rock Pigeon547
  • Saguaro500
  • Northern Mockingbird387
  • Creosote Bush345
Where it sits

Where Tempe Town Lake sits

Region
Arizona28United States932North America1,313
Nearby

Nearby places

More 1
Downloads

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

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Sources

Data sources

Terrain
U.S. Geological Survey, 3D Elevation Program (public domain)
Imagery
Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (scene 2026-08-09)
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)
Protected area
USGS Gap Analysis Project, PAD-US (public domain)
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 NOAA National Weather Service (public domain)
Sources
Wikidata · Wikipedia