Water level
8.02ft
-0.01 ft in 24h
USGS 10337000 updated 10:00 PM
CA · Sat, Aug 1
How's the bite at Lake Tahoe today? Good — save your energy for the evening.
Solid window. Be on the water early.
Built from solunar, pressure, level, wind. This water has no live gauge for every reading — see the sources below.
7/10
Good
Today's bite windows
12 AM6 AMNoon6 PM11 PM
Major
2:53 AM–4:53 AM
Moon overhead
Minor
9:38 AM–10:38 AM
Moonset
Major
3:14 PM–5:14 PM
Moon underfoot
Minor
9:41 PM–10:41 PM
Moonrise
Sunrise 6:01 AM · sunset 8:11 PM · tomorrow's first major 3:37 AM–5:37 AM · windows on every water
Solunar · computed updated 10:29 PM
Conditions right now
Pressure
30.14inHg
falling fast · -3 hPa/12h
NOAA KCXP updated 9:55 PM
Wind
6mph SE
NOAA KCXP updated 9:55 PM
Moon
83% waning
Solunar · computed updated 10:29 PM
Nearby gauges
These sit on connected water, not on Lake Tahoe itself.
- Outflow — 293 cfs USGS 10337500 updated 10:15 PM
What this means
Largemouth bass, Crappie, Catfish
This gauge reports level but no water temperature, so depth calls stay open. Read the windows and the pressure trend instead.
Lake Tahoe water level today
8.02 ft down 0.01 ft in 24 hours
That sits 0% of the way up the band it has held over the last 8 days, between 8.02 and 8.17 ft. Over the week it is down0.12ft.
07-24 8.02–8.17 ft 08-01
USGS 10337000 updated 10:00 PM
The week ahead
| Mon | 6 | Decent | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tue | 6 | Decent | |
| Wed | 6 | Decent | |
| Thu | 6 | Decent | |
| Fri | 6 | Decent | |
| Sat | 6 | Decent | |
| Sun | 6 | Decent |
Forecast days carry solunar and the wind outlook. Pressure and gauge movement land the morning of.
Before you go
A CA fishing license covers this water. The state agency sets the rules and is the one that counts.
Nearby waters today
- 7 Good Pyramid Lake NV · 104 km
- 6 Decent Deschutes River OR · 600 km
- 7 Good Great Salt Lake UT · 695 km
- 7 Good Medina Lake TX · 2213 km
- 9 On fire Rocky River NC · 3582 km
Questions people ask about Lake Tahoe
Answered from the same readings as the rest of this page. Where we have no basis for an answer, there is no entry — spot-by-spot local knowledge is not something we can claim for Lake Tahoe.
- Is it worth fishing Lake Tahoe today?
- 7 out of 10 — good. Solid window. Be on the water early. The strongest stretch is 2:53 AM–4:53 AM. That number is worked out fresh each morning from the solunar windows, the pressure trend, the water level.
- What time should you fish Lake Tahoe?
- Today's major windows run 2:53 AM–4:53 AM and 3:14 PM–5:14 PM, with minor windows at 9:38 AM–10:38 AM and 9:41 PM–10:41 PM. Sunrise is 6:01 AM and sunset 8:11 PM. A major landing on first or last light is the stretch worth setting an alarm for.
- What is the water temperature at Lake Tahoe?
- No gauge on Lake Tahoe measures water temperature. US reservoir gauges report height, not temperature — so rather than estimate it, this page leaves it out and leans on the windows and the pressure trend instead.
- What is the water level at Lake Tahoe right now?
- 8.02 ft, read at 10:00 PM from USGS station 10337000. Over 24 hours it is down 0.01 ft.
- Can you eat the fish you catch in Lake Tahoe?
- That is a health question, and it is answered officially rather than by us. California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment publishes the fish consumption advisory covering these waters, where over 150 site-specific advisories, searchable by water, species or county, plus a statewide default for untested waters. Read it before you keep a meal — we give no eating advice.
Where these numbers come from
- Solunar computed 10:29 PM
- NOAA KCXP Carson City Airport 9:55 PM
- NOAA REV gridded forecast 4:30 PM
- USGS 10337000 LAKE TAHOE A TAHOE CITY CA 10:00 PM
Pegel bei Tahoe City, dazu der Abfluss in den Truckee River als Kontext.
No one types these in by hand. If a source goes quiet, the page says so instead of showing you yesterday.