Salton Sea

Salton Sea: beaches, ramps and water level

On the map, Salton Sea is centered near 33.3377, -115.8391. The deepest point on record is about 49 feet. Surface elevation is about -234 feet.

Inland lakes are not monitored the way ocean beaches are, so posted signs matter more here. Swimming season in California runs through the warm months, and day-use areas set their own opening dates. There is no water temperature sensor here, so only air conditions are shown.

If the operating agency starts publishing a level for this lake, it will appear here. Salton Sea has no public water level gauge that we can read, so there is no level chart here. An invented number would be worse than none. There is a station 10 miles away, SALTON SEA NR WESTMORLAND CA, but it does not measure this lake.

The shoreline of Salton Sea has 6 named swimming spots in the datasets we read. These come from USGS GNIS. Among them are Bombay Beach, Sea View Beach and Salton Beach. Fees and opening dates are set by each park, not by the agency that runs the water.

If Salton Sea is busy, the nearest alternatives here are El Capitan Reservoir (California, 64 mi), Vail Lake (California, 66 mi) and San Vicente Reservoir (California, 69 mi). California has 86 lakes on this site in total.