The Deepest Lakes in the World

The world's deepest lakes, by maximum depth.

The deepest lakes on Earth, ranked by maximum depth — Siberia's Lake Baikal plunges farther than any other.

#	Place	Max depth (ft)
1	Lake Baikal The world's deepest, oldest, and most voluminous lake	5,387 ft 1,642 m
2	Lake Tanganyika The world's longest freshwater lake and second deepest	4,826 ft 1,471 m
3	Caspian Sea The world's largest enclosed body of water, a salty inland sea fed by the Volga	3,363 ft 1,025 m
4	Lake Malawi The African rift lake with more fish species than any other	2,316 ft 706 m
5	Great Bear Lake The largest lake lying entirely within Canada	1,355 ft 413 m
6	Lake Superior The largest freshwater lake on Earth by surface area	1,332 ft 406 m
7	Lake Geneva The great crescent lake of the Alps, shared by Switzerland and France	1,017 ft 310 m
8	Dead Sea A hypersaline lake at the lowest point on Earth's land surface	997 ft 304 m
9	Lake Michigan The largest lake lying entirely within one country	922 ft 281 m
10	Lake Titicaca The highest navigable lake in the world, high in the Andes	922 ft 281 m
11	Lake Ladoga The largest lake in Europe, beside Saint Petersburg	755 ft 230 m
12	Loch Ness Scotland's deep, dark loch and home of a legend	755 ft 230 m

Figures are drawn from standard government and reference sources and shown in both imperial and metric units. See each entry for full details and citations. Browse all guides or open the explore map.