Lake Navajo Water Database

Navajo Lake, San Juan River, Fly Fishing

Lake Navajo




Water Summary
Today is day 235 of 365 for water year 2025. We are 64% through the Water Year.
Last Reading: 6039.38 on Friday, May 23rd, 2025
Lake Navajo was last within 3" of this elevation on May 22, 2025

Elevation & Content Water Inflow Data Navajo Dam Release Data
Lake Navajo is 45.62 feet below Full Pool (Elevation 6085.00 )

By content, Lake Navajo is 62.15% of Full Pool (1,696,000 af)
Total inflows for water year 2025: 221,825 acre feet

This is 45.33% of the average of 489,303 acre feet
Total releases for water year 2025: 198,951 acre feet

This is % of last year's release of 333,966 acre feet
During WY 2025, water storage has fallen by 33,959 AF yet total inflows have exceeded total outflows by 22,874 AF
Inflows for WY 2025 are 88.2% of WY 2024          Rivers feeding Lake Navajo are running at 44.64% of the avg. Click for Details

Lake Navajo is down -8.59 feet from one year ago.    Lake Navajo is up 3.26 feet from the low for water year.

View Acre Feet     Last 14 Measurements
Lake Navajo is up 1.33 feet over these measurements

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION CHANGE CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Fri, May 23, 2025
6039.38
0.09
1,054,107
1284
402
86.0
45.1
Thu, May 22, 2025
6039.29
0.04
1,053,165
1118
399
88.4
45.4
Wed, May 21, 2025
6039.25
0.06
1,052,747
1241
399
80.1
39.0
Tue, May 20, 2025
6039.19
0.08
1,052,120
1235
397
71.8
36.5
Mon, May 19, 2025
6039.11
0.15
1,051,284
1595
391
57.5
40.8
Sun, May 18, 2025
6038.96
0.06
1,049,718
1239
385
67.7
52.1
Sat, May 17, 2025
6038.90
0.08
1,049,092
1385
385
80.8
44.3
Fri, May 16, 2025
6038.82
0.19
1,048,258
1937
384
76.7
39.7
Thu, May 15, 2025
6038.63
0.04
1,046,279
1077
379
70.0
36.6
Wed, May 14, 2025
6038.59
0.16
1,045,863
1773
376
62.9
48.5
Tue, May 13, 2025
6038.43
0.15
1,044,200
1805
377
80.4
57.6
Mon, May 12, 2025
6038.28
0.10
1,042,643
1499
378
83.1
47.6
Sun, May 11, 2025
6038.18
0.13
1,041,605
1513
379
81.8
47.0
Sat, May 10, 2025
6038.05
0.12
1,040,258
1459
378
78.0
44.1
Averages of List
6038.79
0.1
1,047,953
1440.0
386.4
76.1
44.6

Averages for May 23rd

AVERAGE TYPE ELEVATION CUR ELEV vs AVG FOR DATE CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Since Filled (06-25-1973)
6058.08
-18.7
1,330,868
3582.37
1750.69
76.52
46.45
All-Time
6046.19
-6.81
1,224,216
3717.67
1618.24
76.52
46.45

Last 10 May 23rd's data records

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION TODAY vs THEN CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Thu, May 23, 2024
6047.97
-8.59
1,147,822
1852
353
76.9
51.1
Tue, May 23, 2023
6062.45
-23.07
1,323,949
5426
39
82.4
56.5
Mon, May 23, 2022
6029.40
9.98
953,713
1320
293
68.0
52.0
Sun, May 23, 2021
6037.29
2.09
1,083,807
2748
324
70.0
42.0
Sat, May 23, 2020
6060.71
-21.33
1,356,846
1838
544
77.0
47.0
Thu, May 23, 2019
6052.28
-12.90
1,252,587
2679
412
61.0
40.0
Wed, May 23, 2018
6050.31
-10.93
1,229,197
986
542
82.0
43.0
Tue, May 23, 2017
6076.13
-36.75
1,567,611
2379
4646
75.0
48.0
Mon, May 23, 2016
6074.61
-35.23
1,545,620
4225
5090
77.0
39.0
Sat, May 23, 2015
6050.52
-11.14
1,231,673
2988
348
64.0
42.0
Averages of List
6054.25
-14.87
1,270,092
2608
1277
76.0
43.2


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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 - Average Cubic Feet / Second over entire 24 hour period
Outflow - Average Cubic Feet / Second over entire 24 hour period
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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