Lake Navajo Water Database

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Lake Navajo




Water Summary
Today is day 54 of 365 for water year 2026. We are 15% through the Water Year.
Last Reading: 6033.01 on Sunday, November 23rd, 2025
Lake Navajo was last within 3" of this elevation on Nov 22, 2025

Elevation & Content Water Inflow Data Navajo Dam Release Data
Lake Navajo is 51.99 feet below Full Pool (Elevation 6085.00 )

By content, Lake Navajo is 58.32% of Full Pool (1,696,000 af)
Total inflows for water year 2026: 171,763 acre feet

This is 261.38% of the average of 65,714 acre feet
Total releases for water year 2026: 52,460 acre feet

This is % of last year's release of 381,653 acre feet
During WY 2026, water storage has fallen by 98,953 AF yet total inflows have exceeded total outflows by 119,303 AF
Inflows for WY 2026 are 406.88% of WY 2025          Rivers feeding Lake Navajo are running at 119.15% of the avg. Click for Details

Lake Navajo is down -7.67 feet from one year ago.    Lake Navajo is down 0.69 feet from the high for water year.

View CFS     Last 14 Measurements
Lake Navajo is down -0.62 feet over these measurements

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION CHANGE CONTENT INFLOW (af) OUTFLOW (af) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Sun, Nov 23, 2025
6033.01
0.04
989,113
1113
696
44.8
39.0
Sat, Nov 22, 2025
6032.97
0.04
988,715
1105
686
56.3
33.4
Fri, Nov 21, 2025
6032.93
0.04
988,318
1196
778
49.5
38.3
Thu, Nov 20, 2025
6032.89
-0.03
987,920
871
1148
51.8
40.8
Wed, Nov 19, 2025
6032.92
-0.04
988,218
764
1141
55.0
33.1
Tue, Nov 18, 2025
6032.96
-0.02
988,616
964
1141
55.4
28.8
Mon, Nov 17, 2025
6032.98
-0.03
988,815
1150
1426
49.1
37.2
Sun, Nov 16, 2025
6033.01
-0.15
989,113
653
2122
62.6
41.9
Sat, Nov 15, 2025
6033.16
-0.14
990,605
750
2122
67.3
34.0
Fri, Nov 14, 2025
6033.30
-0.14
992,000
770
2142
66.4
36.9
Thu, Nov 13, 2025
6033.44
-0.11
993,396
768
1843
63.7
31.8
Wed, Nov 12, 2025
6033.55
-0.04
994,494
807
1182
67.1
32.0
Tue, Nov 11, 2025
6033.59
-0.04
994,894
805
1180
59.2
29.8
Mon, Nov 10, 2025
6033.63
-0.04
995,293
807
1180
60.4
28.8
Averages of List
6033.17
-0.05
990,679
894.5
1341.9
57.8
34.7

Averages for November 23rd

AVERAGE TYPE ELEVATION CUR ELEV vs AVG FOR DATE CONTENT INFLOW (af) OUTFLOW (af) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Since Filled (06-25-1973)
6052.54
-19.53
1,267,709
813.43
1358.51
51.08
26.58
All-Time
6040.01
-7
1,167,895
828.41
1415.75
51.08
26.58

Last 10 November 23rd's data records

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION TODAY vs THEN CONTENT INFLOW (af) OUTFLOW (af) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Sat, Nov 23, 2024
6040.68
-7.67
1,067,788
635
2202
56.7
26.6
Thu, Nov 23, 2023
6044.81
-11.80
1,112,425
369
678
52.0
26.1
Wed, Nov 23, 2022
6019.73
13.28
863,777
204
633
48.9
23.9
Tue, Nov 23, 2021
6021.61
11.40
880,698
339
593
50.0
22.0
Mon, Nov 23, 2020
6038.47
-5.46
1,096,364
341
748
64.0
45.0
Sat, Nov 23, 2019
6060.48
-27.47
1,353,909
426
1166
n/a
n/a
Fri, Nov 23, 2018
6017.65
15.36
890,124
1880
1954
52.0
22.0
Thu, Nov 23, 2017
6055.21
-22.20
1,288,057
440
783
61.0
26.0
Wed, Nov 23, 2016
6055.96
-22.95
1,297,267
863
708
51.0
28.0
Mon, Nov 23, 2015
6063.99
-30.98
1,399,388
932
629
55.0
19.0
Averages of List
6041.82
-8.81
1,124,548
472
880
51.8
27.3


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Measurements are taken at 11:59 pm of the date listed
Temperature data is from Navajo Dam, NM
CHANGE represents water elevation change from previous day

Units used in each measurement:
Elevation - Feet above sea level
Change - Feet difference over previous measurement
Content - Acre Feet
Inflow - Acre Feet per day
Outflow - Acre Feet per day
All Temps - Degrees Farhenheit
The Water Year runs from October 1 to September 30 of the next year
Acre Feet = 1.9835 * Flow CFS
TP = Total Precipitation



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*Air temp data is sourced from (Prev 24 Hr Extremes):    Farmington, NM Weather
Water data sourced from: Lake Navajo Source Data
Weather forecast for Navajo Dam, NM
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