Canyon Lake water level
Guadalupe River · Texas · operated by USACE (Canyon Dam)
By Michael, independent developer behind zovo.one. Readings pulled live from the same USGS feed the operator reports to.
Canyon Lake is 96.2% full as of Nov 5, 2026, per the Texas Water Development Board; the USGS gage reads 907.3 ft, 1.8 ft below full pool.
Is that normal for the date?
At 907.25 ft, Canyon Lake is higher than 56% of Novembers in 31 years of daily record.
The median for this date across 31 years is 906.63 ft, so this is +0.62 ft against the lake’s own history. Placed on a quantile ladder built from 10,246 daily readings published by USGS for site 08167700, 1992-10-01 to 2026-08-06. This reservoir typically peaks in January and bottoms out in December.
Canyon Lake today: level, trend, source and access
Level against full pool
On Nov 5, 2026 the surface sat at 907.3 ft, 1.8 ft below the full-pool mark of 909 ft. The Texas Water Development Board rates its conservation storage at 96.2% full. Of the 15 Texas lakes on this site with a live percent-full reading, it ranks 2 of 15.
Trend
Between Oct 7 and Nov 5 (29 days) the level fell 0.7 ft, about 0.2 ft a week. The high in that window was 908.0 ft on Oct 7 and the low was 907.2 ft on Oct 29. In the last 7 days it rose 0.1 ft. That reverses the earlier decline. The last 24 hours changed it by less than 0.1 ft.
Data source
The elevation comes from USGS monitoring location 08167700 (lake surface elevation above NGVD 1929, parameter 62614), last reported Nov 5, 2026. Percent full is the Texas Water Development Board daily storage estimate for the same lake. Feet from full pool, the trend and the figures above are computed from that reading and the published full-pool elevation; none is typed by hand. USACE (Canyon Dam) runs the dam on the Guadalupe River.
Recreation status
Status: near full. At 96.2% full it is 36.2 points above 60%, the line above which most ramps stay in the water, so a normal ramp day is likely. Ramps still close on their own schedules, so check yours with USACE (Canyon Dam).
Check an elevation against full pool
For readers outside the U.S., the surface of Canyon Lake is about 276.5 m above sea level, and full pool is about 277.1 m.
Check any elevation yourself. Type a level in feet above sea level (a ramp cutoff, a marina mark) to see how far it sits below full pool and in meters.