Lake Mead water level
Colorado River · Nevada · operated by USBR (Hoover Dam)
By Michael, independent developer behind zovo.one. Readings pulled live from the same USBR feed the operator reports to.
Lake Mead is 24% full as of Nov 5, 2026, per USBR data; 189.6 ft below full pool.
Lake Mead today: level, trend, source and access
Level against full pool
On Nov 5, 2026 the surface sat at 1,039.4 ft, 189.6 ft below the full-pool mark of 1,229 ft. It held 6,933,685 acre-feet of its 28,945,000 acre-foot capacity (24% full), so it needs about 22,011,000 acre-feet more to fill.
Trend
Between Oct 29 and Nov 5 (7 days) the level rose 0.9 ft, about 0.9 ft a week. The high in that window was 1,039.4 ft on Nov 5 and the low was 1,038.5 ft on Oct 29. The last 24 hours moved it up 0.14 ft.
Data source
The elevation comes from the Bureau of Reclamation Lower Colorado hourly reservoir report (Lake Mead), last reported Nov 5, 2026. Percent full is Reclamation storage divided by the reservoir capacity. 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. USBR (Hoover Dam) runs the dam on the Colorado River.
Recreation status
Status: low. At 24% full it is 11.0 points under 35%, where many ramps end above the waterline and stumps, sandbars and rock shelves show. Call USBR (Hoover Dam) before you tow a boat there.
To see where today sits against every daily reading since 1935, the Lake Mead water level chart plots the whole Reclamation record against full pool, minimum power pool and dead pool, and ranks today's reading against the same date in every year. To show today's Lake Mead level on your own site, use the free level badge.
Check an elevation against full pool
For readers outside the U.S., the surface of Lake Mead is about 316.8 m above sea level, and full pool is about 374.6 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.