Lake Champlain, United States and Canada

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Lake Champlain today

Lake Champlain right now: the water is 10 °C51 °F, there's a light breeze from the northwest at 8 km/h5 mph and it's 8 °C47 °F and mainly clear.

Updated 13:17 local time, Wednesday 11 November

Photo: Annacecchini, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Water temperature
10 °C51 °F
Measured, less than an hour ago.
Wind now
8 km/h5 mph
From the northwest, gusts 20 km/h12 mph. 4 knots, a light breeze.
Air
8 °C47 °F
Mainly clear.
Water level
28.60 m93.83 ft
Below normal for this date. Above sea level (NGVD 1929), down 0.01 m0.04 ft over 7 days. USGS, less than an hour ago.

Lake Champlain water level today

Lake Champlain is below normal for 11 November: 28.60 m93.83 ft against a median of 29.09 m95.44 ft for this date, measured over 30 years (1996–2026). On this date the level has ranged from 28.54 m93.62 ft to 30.11 m98.79 ft.

Water level28.60 m93.83 ft
Median for 11 November29.09 m95.44 ft
Difference from normalDown 0.49 m1.61 ft
Range on this date28.54 m93.62 ft to 30.11 m98.79 ft
Reading fromless than an hour ago

Source: USGS. Provisional data, subject to revision. What these terms mean.

Good for today?

Rules of thumb from the current wind and water temperature. Conditions differ across the lake, so check on the spot.

  • SwimmingCold – wetsuit weather
  • Kayak and paddleboardGood – calm water
  • SailingGood sailing breeze
  • Windsurf and kiteNot enough wind

Wind, next 24 hours

KilometresMiles per hour, gusts below. Arrows point the way the wind blows.

13:0085gusts 2113 N
16:001711gusts 2113 NW
19:002314gusts 2415 N
22:001610gusts 1710 NNE
01:00128gusts 128 ENE
04:00128gusts 128 NE
07:0074gusts 74 NE
10:00138gusts 149 N

Four-day forecast

DayWeatherHigh / lowWindGustsRain
Today11 Nov
Overcast
Overcast 10 °C51 °F / 6 °C43 °F2918 NW4528 2%
Tomorrow12 Nov
Drizzle
Drizzle 6 °C43 °F / 4 °C40 °F3220 NNE3320 69%
Friday13 Nov
Snow showers
Snow showers 4 °C40 °F / 1 °C34 °F3622 N4327 61%
Saturday14 Nov
Snow showers
Snow showers 4 °C39 °F / 1 °C34 °F2113 NNW3723 29%

Wind in km/hmph. Rain shows the highest hourly chance of rain that day.