Lake Mead

2026-07-26: 1,041.22 ft — the 4th-lowest elevation for this calendar date in 92 years of daily record (back to Hoover Dam's first fill in 1935).

Elevation

1,041.22 ft

−0.59 ft in 7 d

Vs. one year ago

−13.26 ft

same date last year

Vs. yesterday

+0.01 ft

24-hour change

Release

6,477 cfs

USBR's Mead feed has no inflow series, so net flow can't be computed · 2026-07-27

Weather at the lake

Now / forecast · Boulder Basin

113°F

today 113° / 95° · tmrw 114° / 90°
Open-Meteo model forecast, fetched at build

Latest observed · Las Vegas (Harry Reid Intl)

114° / 94°

high / low on 2026-07-24 · NOAA GHCN station USW00023169 (~35 mi west of the lake; the lakeside stations (Callville Bay, Boulder City) stopped reporting in 2011/2004)

Storage

7.06 maf

as of 2026-07-26

Last five years

Daily pool elevation, USBR. Shortage-tier reference lines will appear once their governing documents are source-verified.

Full record, 1935–present

Monthly mean elevation since Hoover Dam closure — 90+ years of daily data, computed from USBR records.

Records

Definition	Elevation (ft)	Date
full-series daily min	670	1935-02-02
full-series daily max	1,225.83	1983-07-24
since-2000 daily min	1,040.58	2022-07-28
since-2000 daily max	1,214.41	2000-02-06

Every record states its definition; full-series extremes include the 1935–1941 initial fill. Deep-dive features (projections, thresholds, boat ramps) arrive on this page after Lake Powell — see methodology.