Lake Powell water level
Colorado River · Utah · operated by USBR (Glen Canyon Dam)
By Michael, independent developer behind zovo.one. Readings pulled live from the same USGS feed the operator reports to.
Lake Powell is at 3,518.7 ft as of Oct 11, 2026, per USGS data; full pool is 3,700 ft.
At 3,518.70 ft, Lake Powell is lower than 98% of Octobers in 64 years of daily record. Full Lake Powell almanac, $19 → what is in it
Is that normal for the date?
At 3,518.70 ft, Lake Powell is lower than 98% of Octobers in 64 years of daily record.
The median for this date across 64 years is 3,628.11 ft, so this is -109.41 ft against the lake’s own history. Placed on a quantile ladder built from 22,868 daily readings published by USBR for site 919, 1963-12-28 to 2026-08-06. This reservoir typically peaks in July and bottoms out in December.
Where Lake Powell sits in its operating band
The reading lands 181.3 ft below full pool. Minimum power pool is the line below which Glen Canyon Dam can no longer generate hydropower; dead pool is where water can no longer reach the outlet works. Today the surface is 28.7 ft above minimum power pool and 148.7 ft above dead pool.
The band share is an elevation-distance fraction, not a storage-volume percentage. Reservoirs widen toward the top, so volume is not linear with elevation.
Wondering how deep the water actually is at the dam right now? How deep is Lake Powell right now? computes it live from this same gage. If you are launching, check the minimum elevation each Lake Powell ramp needs against this reading. To see where today sits against every daily reading since 1963, the Lake Powell water level chart plots the whole Reclamation record.
How the level compares lately
Over the roughly 30-day series the gage rose 1.9 ft; the last 24 hours moved it down 0.1 ft. For readers outside the U.S., the surface is about 1,072.5 m above sea level.
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.
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Where these numbers come from
Every figure on this page is recomputed in code from a public government feed, never typed by hand. The live elevation is a USGS gage reading; feet below full pool, the operating-band gaps, the ~30-day change, and the meter conversion are all derived from that one validated reading and the published reference elevations. The reading is timestamped in the gauge above, and LakeLevelNow pulls the same feed the operator reports to.
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