Lake Travis water level
Colorado River · Texas · operated by LCRA (Mansfield Dam)
By Michael, independent developer behind zovo.one. Readings pulled live from the same USGS feed the operator reports to.
Lake Travis is 93.5% full as of Nov 5, 2026, per the Texas Water Development Board; the USGS gage reads 677.2 ft, 3.8 ft below full pool.
Lake Travis today: level, trend, source and access
Level against full pool
On Nov 5, 2026 the surface sat at 677.2 ft, 3.8 ft below the full-pool mark of 681 ft. The Texas Water Development Board rates its conservation storage at 93.5% full. Of the 15 Texas lakes on this site with a live percent-full reading, it ranks 5 of 15.
Trend
Between Oct 7 and Nov 5 (29 days) the level fell 0.9 ft, about 0.2 ft a week. The high in that window was 678.1 ft on Oct 7 and the low was 677.0 ft on Nov 2. In the last 7 days it rose 0.1 ft. The last 24 hours changed it by less than 0.1 ft.
Data source
The elevation comes from USGS monitoring location 08154500 (reservoir elevation, parameter 00062), 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. LCRA (Mansfield Dam) runs the dam on the Colorado River.
Recreation status
Status: near full. At 93.5% full it is 33.5 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 LCRA (Mansfield Dam). If the 30-day pace of 0.2 ft a week down held, the surface would be near 676.4 ft in four weeks. Releases and rain change that quickly.
To see where today sits against every reading since 1940, the Lake Travis water level chart plots the complete Texas Water Development Board daily record against LCRA's full mark, spillway, historic high and historic low.
Check an elevation against full pool
For readers outside the U.S., the surface of Lake Travis is about 206.4 m above sea level, and full pool is about 207.6 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.