Reservoir · Utah · United States · BOR RISE
Lake Powell
Lake Powell Glen Canyon Dam and Powerplant
23.3% full
Capacity
30,868.91 hm³
Volume stored
7207 hm³
Vs month average
81% of normal
Coordinates
37.058°N, 111.303°W
Last updated
2026-10-27
Current fill
23.3%vs 7 days ago
+2.1 ppgaining
vs 1 year ago
-3.9 ppyear-over-year
7-day trend
↑rising
Drought context
Storage vs October average
81%of normal
23.3% full on 2026-10-27, against an average of 28.8% for October across 6 years of readings (-5.5 points).
Drought Monitor at this site · 27 October 2026
D1moderate drought
The ground at Lake Powell's coordinates falls inside the D1 area of the weekly U.S. Drought Monitor map. That describes local conditions — rainfall, soil moisture, streamflow — not the reservoir's storage. Utah drought figures →
Data source: BOR RISE — US Bureau of Reclamation — daily reservoir storage volume. Capacity is the design (normal full-pool) capacity from the US National Inventory of Dams (NID); fill % = current volume ÷ design capacity. Last reading: 2026-10-27.
Catchment Weather
Past 30 days + 14-day forecast · Open-Meteo
Satellite imagery: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics. Map: Esri, HERE, Garmin, © OpenStreetMap contributors. 37.058°N, 111.303°W · Open in Google Maps
About Lake Powell
As of October 27, 2026, Lake Powell is filled to 23.3% of its total capacity, holding 7,207 hm³ of water out of a maximum 30,869 hm³. At this level the reservoir is low.
Over the most recent week on record the fill level has risen by 2.1 percentage points, and it is 3.9 points below its level on the same date a year earlier.
Across the readings we hold for Lake Powell — 1824 data points between October 30, 2021 and October 27, 2026 — the level has ranged from a low of 20.3% (September 13, 2026) to a high of 39.5% (July 7, 2024). On average the reservoir is fullest around July and at its lowest around April.
It is operated by BOR primarily for multiple purposes. It is at 37.058°N, 111.303°W.
Key facts
- Current fill level
- 23.3% of total capacity
- Water stored
- 7,207 hm³
- Total capacity
- 30,869 hm³
- 7-day change
- ▲ 2.1 pp
- Year-on-year
- ▼ 3.9 pp
- Primary use
- Multipurpose
- Operator
- BOR
- Coordinates
- 37.058°N, 111.303°W
- Last updated
- October 27, 2026
Recent readings
| Date | Fill level | Volume (hm³) |
|---|---|---|
| 27 Oct 2026 | 23.3% | 7,207 |
| 26 Oct 2026 | 23.0% | 7,102 |
| 25 Oct 2026 | 22.7% | 7,019 |
| 24 Oct 2026 | 22.4% | 6,918 |
| 23 Oct 2026 | 22.2% | 6,840 |
| 22 Oct 2026 | 21.8% | 6,740 |
| 21 Oct 2026 | 21.4% | 6,612 |
| 20 Oct 2026 | 21.2% | 6,543 |
| 19 Oct 2026 | 21.2% | 6,539 |
| 18 Oct 2026 | 21.1% | 6,528 |
| 17 Oct 2026 | 21.1% | 6,511 |
| 16 Oct 2026 | 21.0% | 6,491 |