Ocean Floor Map

Mediterranean Sea depth map

Sea: average depth about 1,844 m, deepest 5,030 m (GEBCO_2026 grid).

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Sea level todayDrag the slider to lower the sea and see the land that would appear.

Sea level in metres below today’s. A simple bathtub model: it lowers the sea everywhere by the same amount and does not simulate how the water would really drain.

Key

Sea depth

  • Deeper than 6,000 m
  • 4,000 to 6,000 m
  • 2,000 to 4,000 m
  • 1,000 to 2,000 m
  • 200 to 1,000 m
  • Shallower than 200 m (the continental shelf)

Land height

  • Land up to 500 m
  • 500 to 2,000 m
  • Above 2,000 m

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  • Seabed exposed when the sea is lowered A dashed white line marks today’s coast.

How to read the map. Darker blue is deeper water. Tap anywhere to see how deep the sea is there, or how high the land is, and the nearest named undersea feature. Depths come from the GEBCO_2026 grid, which in most of the deep ocean is predicted from satellite measurements of the sea surface rather than surveyed by ship, and the map’s tiles are coarser than the grid, so narrow trenches read shallower on the map than their true depth. Not for navigation.

Mediterranean Sea at a glance

  • 1,844 maverage depth
  • 2,150 mmedian depth
  • 5,030 mmaximum depth
  • 1.6 million km²water area

Mediterranean Sea is a sea. Inside its outline the GEBCO grid has about 1.6 million km² of water, with an average depth of about 1,844 m (the middle value is 2,150 m) and a maximum of 5,030 m, found at 36.48° N, 21.20° E.

Open the map at the deepest cell and tap to read the depth.

How deep is each part of the Mediterranean Sea?

The bar splits the Mediterranean Sea's water by depth. Each colour is a depth band, and the shares add up to 100%.

  • 0 to 200 m: 13%
  • 200 to 1,000 m: 16.4%
  • 1,000 to 4,000 m: 69.5%
  • 4,000 to 6,000 m: 1.1%
  • below 6,000 m: 0%

Named features near the deepest point: Calypso Deep (11 km), Glabro (625 km), Palinuro Seamount (650 km), Marsili (673 km).

The Mediterranean Sea if sea level dropped

The slider on the map lowers the sea in steps. This table shows how much of the Mediterranean Sea's water would be land at each step.

Sea level lowered byBecomes landShare of its water
10 m9,971 km²0.6%
20 m25,042 km²1.6%
50 m66,518 km²4.3%
80 m109,807 km²7%
120 m153,425 km²9.8%
200 m203,085 km²13%
500 m330,680 km²21.2%
1,000 m458,836 km²29.4%
2,000 m727,229 km²46.6%
3,000 m1.4 million km²88.5%
4,000 m1.5 million km²98.9%
6,000 m1.6 million km²100%

A simple bathtub model: it lowers the sea everywhere by the same amount and does not simulate how water would really drain.

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Frequently asked questions

How deep is the Mediterranean Sea?

On average about 1,844 m in the GEBCO grid (the middle value is 2,150 m). The deepest cell inside its outline is 5,030 m, at 36.48° N, 21.20° E.

How big is the Mediterranean Sea?

About 1.6 million km² of water inside its Natural Earth outline, counted from the grid cells that are below sea level.

How much of the Mediterranean Sea would be land if sea level dropped?

With the sea 20 m lower, about 25,042 km² (1.6%) of its water would be land. At 6,000 m lower, 100% would be. This is a simple bathtub model that lowers the sea evenly everywhere.

Data: depths from the GEBCO_2026 grid, statistics worked out inside the Natural Earth outline of the sea. See data sources and licences. The GEBCO Grid should NOT be used for navigation or for any other purpose involving safety at sea.

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