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Wast Water
- Area
- 2.82 km²
- Max depth
- 79 m
- Tonight
- 7°CCloudy · Wind 25 km/h NW
Wast Water is a lake at 61 m above sea level in England, United Kingdom, 2.82 km² in area and 4.9 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 61 m
- Length
- 4.9 km
- Shoreline
- 11.4 km
Wast Water in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 11.4 km≈2¾ h to walk around
Wast Water 3D map
Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 6.9 × 6.9 km
Wast Water terrain and contours
25 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.
Wast Water elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Wast Water weather
Tonight · Cloudy · 7°C (45°F) · Wind 25 km/h NW
Wast Water forecast for about 61 m.
- Tonight7°–25 km/h NW
- Today7°13°37.6 mm65 km/h W
- Sun8°10°10.2 mm61 km/h W
- Mon8°14°14.1 mm39 km/h S
- Tue9°12°12.4 mm41 km/h S
- Wed10°12°9.5 mm32 km/h W
- Thu9°11°0.4 mm17 km/h SE
- Fri10°12°7.5 mm22 km/h SE
- Sat7°10°4.5 mm22 km/h SE
- Sun6°9°3.6 mm22 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 Wast Water
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Wast Water, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
0.7 km NNW
Nearest campsite
Wasdale Campsite
All mapped places 6
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Parking | 0.7 km NNW |
| Parking | 1.0 km WSW |
| Parking | 1.0 km NNE |
| Wasdale CampsiteCampsite | 2.6 km NE |
| Wasdale Head CampsiteCampsite | 3.7 km NE |
| Church Stile Farm And Holiday ParkCampsite | 4.1 km WSW |
Slope
Share of the 6.9 × 6.9 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 54% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 13.5% of the 48 km² view
- Relief in view
- 641 m low point 51 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 3.4 km; 234 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Bog asphodel15
- Common Chaffinch11
- Round-leaved sundew9
- Common Harebell9
- English Stonecrop9
- Bell Heather8
Where Wast Water sits
- Region
- England120United Kingdom371Europe2,143
- Protected area
- Lake District National Park27
Nearby places
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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 2026-07-15)
- 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)
- 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)