Why isn't my canal listed?

The City has surveyed the southeast canal network and part of the southwest so far. Northwest and remaining southwest canals are added as the City publishes them.

Does the City of Cape Coral dredge the canals?

Yes. A citywide dredging program funded through stormwater fees dredges to a permitted limit of five feet below mean low water, prioritizing canals by bottom elevation and boat traffic.

How Deep Are Cape Coral Canals? Depth by Canal

Q: How deep are the canals in Cape Coral?

Of the 254 saltwater canals the City of Cape Coral has surveyed, the typical bottom is about 6.8 feet below the survey datum, with shallow stretches around 6.2 feet. Deep basins near Cape Harbour run 15 to 23 feet. Depth varies canal by canal.

Q: Is Cape Coral canal water deep enough for a boat?

For most surveyed canals, yes for the 20-to-30-foot boats people keep on lifts here. A handful of canals have shallow stretches under 5 feet and suit shallower-draft boats. Check the specific canal.

Last updated October 26, 2026. Built from the City of Cape Coral's own canal depth survey (City data as of April 7, 2026), summarized by canal on this page and rechecked monthly as new areas are surveyed. About this data.

Listings never say how deep the water is. The City of Cape Coral has started measuring it, canal by canal, with a boat and a depth sounder, and publishes the raw readings. This page turns those 111,000 readings into one number per canal you can actually use: the typical bottom, the shallow stretches, and the deep spots. Hover or tap a canal on the map, or find it in the list below.

The depth map

under 5.5 ft5.5–6.56.5–7.57.5–10over 10 ft

Color is the typical (median) bottom reading along the canal. Hover or tap for the shallow and deep stretches. Canals with no color haven't been surveyed yet. Feet below the City's survey datum; see what the numbers mean.

What the survey shows so far

The City has measured 254 named saltwater canals: 219 in the southeast, 34 in the southwest, and one at the northeast edge. The northwest and the rest of the southwest are not surveyed yet; this page will add them as the City publishes them.

Southeast Cape Coral. Typical bottom 6.7 ft, and half of the surveyed SE canals fall between 6.4 and 7.2 ft. Shallow stretches typically read about 6.1 ft.
Southwest Cape Coral (surveyed part). Deeper on the whole: typical bottom 9.2 ft, because the surveyed SW canals include the big basins around Cape Harbour and the South Spreader Waterway.
The shallowest surveyed canals (shallow stretches under 5.5 ft): Vendome, Calusa, Rutland, Coral Pointe, Viking, Fermi, Vincennes, Venetian, Cat Cay Lake, Riverhead West, Little, Spreader Waterway East, Versaille, Genoa North, Tampico, Viceroy, Waikiki, Riverhead North, Sequoia, Morley, Chantrey, Cornwallis, Rainbow, Constable, Sherwood.
The deepest (typical bottom over 15 ft): Palos, Merrick, Orduna, Nevada, Palos Lake, Ramsey, Eternity, Keats, Lake Louise, Odyssey, Orchid, Cactus.

Two things the map makes plain. First, Cape Coral's canals were dug for boats, and the survey backs that up: the ordinary canal is 6 to 7 feet, not 2 or 3. Second, depth is a canal-by-canal fact, not a neighborhood fact. Two canals a block apart can differ by a foot and a half, which is the difference between a comfortable lift and a boat that touches at low tide.

What the numbers mean, and what they don't

Bottom elevation, not depth at low tide. The City records the elevation of the canal bottom against a fixed survey datum. To know how much water sits over that bottom at low tide you need the tide datum offset for Cape Coral, which the City has been asked to confirm; this page will add a "feet at mean low water" column when it does. Until then, treat the figures as relative: a 7-ft canal has about a foot more water than a 6-ft canal, at any tide.

Typical versus shallow stretch. The typical number is the middle reading along the canal. The shallow-stretch number is the reading that 90 percent of the canal is deeper than, which is closer to what your keel cares about. Shoaling at a canal mouth or a dead end can be shallower still; that is what the survey's individual points are for, and Laurel can pull them for any address.

What the City is doing with this. The survey feeds the City's canal dredging program, which ranks canals by bottom elevation and traffic and dredges the worst to a permitted limit of five feet below mean low water. If a canal you care about is red or orange on the map, it is the kind the program is meant to catch.

Depth is what floats the boat. Canal width is what sells the photo; depth at the dock is what decides whether a lift and a 26-footer work. Pair this page with what draft runs where, the bridge heights on the way out, and minutes to open water for the route.

Every surveyed canal, A to Z

Canal	Quad	Typical bottom	Shallow stretch	Deep stretch	Readings
Abacus Canal	SE	6.6 ft	5.8 ft	7.0 ft	220
Albatross Canal	SW	8.8 ft	8.0 ft	9.5 ft	217
Alicante Canal North	SE	6.4 ft	6.1 ft	6.8 ft	187
Alicante Canal South	SE	6.4 ft	5.9 ft	6.8 ft	209
Allegro Canal	SE	6.9 ft	6.4 ft	7.5 ft	106
Amethyst Canal	SE	6.5 ft	6.2 ft	6.8 ft	193
Amity Canal	SW	14.8 ft	11.1 ft	17.7 ft	265
Anchor Canal	SE	6.8 ft	6.1 ft	7.3 ft	510
Anglers Canal	SE	6.4 ft	6.0 ft	6.8 ft	120
Antigua Canal	SE	6.5 ft	6.0 ft	7.4 ft	127
Axminister Canal	SW	8.6 ft	7.3 ft	10.2 ft	229
Balboa Canal N	SE	6.7 ft	5.9 ft	7.8 ft	149
Balboa Canal S	SE	6.5 ft	5.8 ft	7.4 ft	175
Balfour Canal	SE	6.7 ft	6.1 ft	7.3 ft	128
Balsam Canal	SW	14.5 ft	10.2 ft	19.6 ft	301
Bay Shore Canal	SE	10.1 ft	9.0 ft	13.3 ft	456
Biarritz Canal	SE	6.3 ft	5.7 ft	6.9 ft	667
Bikini Basin	SE	7.2 ft	6.8 ft	8.1 ft	378
Bikini Canal	SE	7.3 ft	6.4 ft	8.5 ft	140
Bimini Basin	SE	11.3 ft	10.2 ft	13.7 ft	131
Bimini Canal	SE	7.1 ft	6.0 ft	10.9 ft	2,110
Bonneville Canal	SE	9.6 ft	8.2 ft	10.4 ft	172
Brewster Canal	SE	6.5 ft	6.2 ft	7.2 ft	194
Bronte Canal	SE	6.3 ft	5.7 ft	6.8 ft	133
Browning Canal	SE	7.3 ft	6.8 ft	7.9 ft	125
Byron Canal	SE	6.2 ft	5.8 ft	6.5 ft	138
Cabot Canal	SE	6.8 ft	6.3 ft	7.5 ft	286
Cactus Canal	SW	15.2 ft	10.2 ft	18.2 ft	67
Calabar Canal North	SE	6.3 ft	5.8 ft	6.7 ft	547
Calabar Canal South	SE	6.4 ft	6.0 ft	6.8 ft	525
Calabar Canal West	SE	6.4 ft	5.8 ft	6.8 ft	266
Calusa Canal	SE	6.0 ft	5.0 ft	8.4 ft	118
Campo Canal	SE	6.5 ft	6.1 ft	6.7 ft	112
Carina Canal	SW	6.9 ft	6.3 ft	7.3 ft	187
Carnation Canal	SE	8.0 ft	7.2 ft	8.7 ft	184
Carolyn Canal	SE	6.5 ft	6.2 ft	7.0 ft	192
Carsonia Canal	SE	6.9 ft	6.5 ft	7.3 ft	157
Cat Cay Canal	SE	6.7 ft	6.2 ft	7.1 ft	223
Cat Cay Lake	SE	6.2 ft	5.3 ft	7.4 ft	624
Ceba Canal	SE	6.7 ft	5.8 ft	7.5 ft	250
Centaur Canal	SE	7.0 ft	6.4 ft	7.4 ft	153
Chantrey Canal	SE	6.5 ft	5.4 ft	7.3 ft	1,912
Chaucer Canal	SE	6.3 ft	5.7 ft	6.8 ft	197
Clinton Canal	SE	6.9 ft	6.4 ft	7.3 ft	197
Clipper Basin	SE	7.3 ft	7.0 ft	8.1 ft	87
Coleridge Canal	SE	7.0 ft	6.6 ft	7.3 ft	218
Collier Canal	SE	7.2 ft	6.5 ft	7.8 ft	766
Cologne Canal	SE	6.6 ft	5.8 ft	7.3 ft	224
Conrad Canal	SE	6.2 ft	5.8 ft	6.9 ft	57
Constable Canal	SE	6.6 ft	5.5 ft	7.3 ft	724
Coral Canal	SW	7.6 ft	6.6 ft	9.0 ft	1,055
Coral Pointe Canal	SE	6.3 ft	5.0 ft	11.6 ft	2,665
Cornwallis Canal	SE	5.8 ft	5.4 ft	6.2 ft	144
Courtney Canal	SW	7.1 ft	6.9 ft	7.1 ft	3
Crosby Canal	SE	6.6 ft	6.0 ft	7.1 ft	710
Croton Canal	SE	6.8 ft	6.4 ft	7.2 ft	600
Dap Canal	SW	7.9 ft	7.4 ft	8.2 ft	92
Darwin Canal	SE	6.7 ft	6.1 ft	7.0 ft	96
Del Mar Canal North	SE	8.2 ft	6.9 ft	10.6 ft	104
Del Mar Canal South	SE	9.6 ft	6.7 ft	11.2 ft	125
Delano Canal	SE	7.1 ft	6.5 ft	7.6 ft	161
Delbert Canal	SE	7.3 ft	6.8 ft	8.0 ft	538
Dexter Canal	SE	7.7 ft	7.4 ft	8.1 ft	212
Diamond Canal	SW	14.5 ft	12.7 ft	17.7 ft	205
Dimple Canal	SE	7.3 ft	7.0 ft	7.9 ft	141
Dinwiddie Canal	SE	7.1 ft	6.6 ft	7.7 ft	351
Dolphin Canal	SE	7.4 ft	6.8 ft	8.3 ft	1,418
Eliot Canal	SE	6.3 ft	5.8 ft	6.9 ft	75
Eternity Canal	SW	19.4 ft	11.1 ft	27.2 ft	759
Everest Canal	SE	6.5 ft	5.8 ft	7.3 ft	1,910
Fermi Canal	SE	6.2 ft	5.1 ft	7.6 ft	755
Fielding Canal	SE	6.9 ft	6.7 ft	7.3 ft	151
Flamingo Canal	SE	8.4 ft	7.3 ft	9.2 ft	444
Ford Canal	SE	6.6 ft	5.9 ft	7.1 ft	103
Foster Canal	SE	6.6 ft	6.3 ft	7.2 ft	194
Galsworthy Canal	SE	6.7 ft	6.1 ft	7.2 ft	241
Genoa Canal North	SE	5.9 ft	5.4 ft	6.5 ft	553
Genoa Canal South	SE	6.2 ft	5.6 ft	6.7 ft	508
Genoa Canal West	SE	6.3 ft	5.5 ft	6.7 ft	255
Gilbert Canal	SE	6.2 ft	5.7 ft	6.9 ft	197
Glade Canal	SE	6.2 ft	5.6 ft	9.3 ft	120
Glen Cove Canal	SE	6.4 ft	5.7 ft	7.3 ft	460
Gordon Canal	SE	6.9 ft	6.0 ft	7.5 ft	800
Granada Canal	SE	6.6 ft	5.8 ft	7.0 ft	294
Greeley Canal	SE	6.8 ft	6.3 ft	7.3 ft	225
Gregory Canal	SE	6.8 ft	6.1 ft	7.4 ft	623
Guenever Canal	SW	7.9 ft	6.6 ft	8.5 ft	211
Hastings Canal	SE	6.8 ft	6.3 ft	7.8 ft	287
Heddon Canal	SE	7.4 ft	6.1 ft	8.0 ft	171
Hoadly Canal	SE	7.3 ft	6.9 ft	7.7 ft	300
Hogarth Canal	SE	6.2 ft	5.7 ft	6.5 ft	162
Honolulu Canal	SE	6.8 ft	5.8 ft	7.6 ft	3,104
Hoya Canal	SE	6.7 ft	6.2 ft	7.1 ft	104
Hudson Canal	SE	6.5 ft	6.2 ft	6.9 ft	101
Iberia Canal	SE	6.4 ft	6.1 ft	7.1 ft	113
Katama Canal	SW	6.9 ft	6.5 ft	7.3 ft	246
Katova Canal	SE	7.1 ft	6.1 ft	7.8 ft	134
Keats Canal	SE	19.3 ft	12.3 ft	27.7 ft	896
Kipling Canal	SE	6.4 ft	5.7 ft	6.8 ft	201
Lafayette Canal	SE	7.4 ft	6.6 ft	8.2 ft	707
Lake Louise	SW	19.3 ft	14.4 ft	22.3 ft	154
Lamb Canal	SE	6.9 ft	6.6 ft	7.6 ft	120
Las Palmas Canal	SE	10.2 ft	8.8 ft	12.9 ft	478
Lavender Canal	SE	6.4 ft	6.0 ft	6.7 ft	113
Leary Canal	SE	6.8 ft	6.5 ft	7.1 ft	63
Lido Canal	SE	7.3 ft	5.9 ft	18.4 ft	2,611
Lily Canal	SW	10.0 ft	8.5 ft	10.9 ft	245
Lisa Canal	SE	6.5 ft	6.3 ft	6.8 ft	119
Little Canal	SE	6.0 ft	5.3 ft	6.6 ft	494
Lotus Canal	SW	7.3 ft	6.4 ft	10.7 ft	1,330
Mackenzie Canal	SE	7.2 ft	6.3 ft	8.5 ft	341
Magnolia Canal	SE	6.6 ft	6.0 ft	6.8 ft	113
Malaga Canal	SE	6.9 ft	5.9 ft	11.8 ft	1,413
Mallorca Canal	SE	9.8 ft	9.1 ft	10.5 ft	187
Mandolin Canal	SE	8.0 ft	7.3 ft	9.0 ft	482
Mango Canal	SE	6.6 ft	5.9 ft	7.4 ft	433
Manila Canal	SE	7.0 ft	6.4 ft	7.8 ft	58
Manito Canal	SE	7.0 ft	6.4 ft	7.7 ft	114
Manuel Canal	SE	6.5 ft	5.6 ft	7.1 ft	749
Marigold Canal	SW	8.8 ft	8.2 ft	9.6 ft	347
Marlboro Canal	SE	13.2 ft	8.8 ft	16.3 ft	241
Marlowe Canal	SE	6.5 ft	5.8 ft	7.3 ft	129
Mast Canal	SE	6.7 ft	6.0 ft	7.4 ft	427
Meade Canal	NE	7.2 ft	6.4 ft	8.6 ft	3,960
Meredith Canal	SE	6.3 ft	6.0 ft	6.7 ft	154
Merrick Canal	SW	23.4 ft	20.0 ft	25.7 ft	447
Mertz Canal	SE	6.3 ft	6.0 ft	6.7 ft	58
Minstrel Canal	SE	11.4 ft	9.0 ft	16.9 ft	305
Miramar Canal	SE	6.3 ft	5.7 ft	8.6 ft	229
Moody Canal	SE	7.2 ft	6.6 ft	10.4 ft	933
Mordred Canal	SW	7.6 ft	6.7 ft	8.0 ft	144
Morley Canal	SE	6.0 ft	5.4 ft	7.0 ft	95
Moss Canal	SE	6.9 ft	5.8 ft	7.6 ft	853
Mullen Canal	SE	7.5 ft	7.1 ft	8.2 ft	111
Murray Canal	SE	6.7 ft	6.1 ft	7.2 ft	333
Nassau Canal	SE	6.5 ft	5.9 ft	7.4 ft	221
Navaho Canal	SE	8.5 ft	7.7 ft	10.5 ft	199
Neda Canal	SW	13.8 ft	12.5 ft	21.3 ft	95
Nevada Canal	SW	22.3 ft	15.6 ft	25.2 ft	329
Nightingale Canal	SE	7.2 ft	6.5 ft	7.7 ft	1,056
Nimue Canal	SW	7.9 ft	7.4 ft	8.3 ft	86
Nipper Canal	SW	6.5 ft	5.8 ft	7.1 ft	164
Norfolk Canal	SE	7.0 ft	5.9 ft	7.7 ft	260
Normandy Canal	SE	6.7 ft	5.9 ft	7.7 ft	392
North Tennyson Canal	SE	12.9 ft	8.8 ft	15.7 ft	258
Ochos Rios Canal	SE	6.7 ft	6.3 ft	7.1 ft	136
Odyssey Canal	SE	16.9 ft	12.1 ft	18.8 ft	166
Orange Canal	SE	6.6 ft	6.0 ft	7.1 ft	116
Orchid Canal	SE	16.7 ft	9.3 ft	27.2 ft	470
Orduna Canal	SW	23.2 ft	19.7 ft	26.5 ft	284
Oriole Canal	SE	11.9 ft	9.4 ft	25.2 ft	151
Orpheus Canal	SE	11.7 ft	9.4 ft	23.9 ft	448
Ottersrest Canal	SE	10.5 ft	6.9 ft	12.6 ft	1,104
Palaco Grande Canal	SE	9.0 ft	7.9 ft	10.0 ft	1,178
Palos Canal	SW	23.6 ft	22.3 ft	25.4 ft	170
Palos Lake	SW	21.5 ft	11.4 ft	23.3 ft	69
Park Canal	SE	6.4 ft	5.8 ft	6.7 ft	119
Partridge Canal	SE	7.3 ft	6.8 ft	8.1 ft	399
Peachtree Canal	SE	7.9 ft	6.7 ft	9.1 ft	178
Pearl Canal	SE	7.0 ft	6.4 ft	7.4 ft	224
Pentagon Canal	SE	9.0 ft	8.5 ft	10.1 ft	200
Phoenix Canal	SE	9.2 ft	8.0 ft	14.5 ft	191
Picardy Canal	SE	7.8 ft	7.1 ft	8.4 ft	264
Picnic Canal	SE	6.5 ft	6.3 ft	6.7 ft	184
Placentia Canal	SW	11.2 ft	10.6 ft	12.0 ft	412
Plato Canal	SE	7.8 ft	6.2 ft	10.7 ft	1,772
Port Neuf Canal	SE	6.6 ft	6.2 ft	6.9 ft	197
Port Saint Germain Canal	SE	6.4 ft	6.0 ft	6.8 ft	186
Port St. Joe Canal	SE	6.4 ft	6.0 ft	6.7 ft	192
Port St. Lucie Canal	SE	6.1 ft	5.7 ft	6.5 ft	192
Primrose Canal	SE	11.2 ft	9.1 ft	13.4 ft	207
Princeton Canal	SW	7.0 ft	6.3 ft	7.6 ft	460
Rainbow Canal	SE	5.9 ft	5.4 ft	6.7 ft	156
Rainbow Canal North	SE	6.8 ft	6.4 ft	7.2 ft	194
Rainbow Canal South	SE	6.7 ft	6.2 ft	7.1 ft	213
Raleigh Canal	SE	6.5 ft	5.5 ft	9.1 ft	181
Ramsey Canal	SW	21.2 ft	16.6 ft	24.7 ft	177
Raven Canal	SE	7.1 ft	6.6 ft	7.5 ft	191
Reef Canal	SE	6.7 ft	6.4 ft	7.2 ft	106
Reynolds Canal	SE	6.0 ft	5.6 ft	6.6 ft	188
Riverhead Canal North	SE	5.9 ft	5.4 ft	6.4 ft	499
Riverhead Canal South	SE	6.0 ft	5.5 ft	6.5 ft	476
Riverhead Canal West	SE	6.0 ft	5.3 ft	6.5 ft	267
Roanoke Canal	SE	7.1 ft	6.3 ft	7.4 ft	335
Roberts Canal	SE	6.4 ft	6.0 ft	7.1 ft	198
Rodney Canal	SE	6.5 ft	5.9 ft	7.0 ft	153
Rondo Canal	SE	6.6 ft	5.9 ft	7.2 ft	839
Rubican Canal	SE	7.2 ft	6.5 ft	8.1 ft	3,739
Rutland Canal	SE	5.9 ft	5.0 ft	8.8 ft	180
Ryan Canal	SE	10.1 ft	9.4 ft	11.8 ft	190
Sacremento Canal	SE	6.2 ft	5.6 ft	8.6 ft	140
Salamander Canal	SE	6.4 ft	5.6 ft	8.9 ft	198
Salmon Canal	SW	7.9 ft	6.9 ft	10.0 ft	349
San Carlos Basin	SE	7.5 ft	6.9 ft	8.2 ft	756
San Carlos Canal	SE	7.9 ft	6.5 ft	12.3 ft	6,139
San Jose Canal	SW	12.4 ft	10.0 ft	14.1 ft	435
Santa Fe Canal	SE	6.9 ft	6.2 ft	7.4 ft	633
Sardinia Canal	SE	6.9 ft	6.2 ft	7.4 ft	105
Saturn Canal	SE	6.5 ft	5.7 ft	7.5 ft	180
Savannah Canal	SE	6.7 ft	6.0 ft	7.2 ft	139
Savona Canal	SE	6.5 ft	6.0 ft	7.7 ft	212
Saxony Canal	SE	6.9 ft	6.0 ft	7.5 ft	113
Scott Canal	SE	6.1 ft	5.7 ft	6.7 ft	117
Sequoia Canal	SE	6.5 ft	5.4 ft	7.7 ft	142
Shakespeare Canal	SE	6.3 ft	5.9 ft	6.7 ft	284
Shaw Canal	SE	6.0 ft	5.7 ft	6.3 ft	119
Shelly Canal	SE	6.8 ft	6.0 ft	7.7 ft	133
Shenandoah Canal	SW	9.5 ft	7.9 ft	10.5 ft	129
Sherwood Canal	SE	6.6 ft	5.5 ft	8.6 ft	90
Shetland Canal	SE	6.3 ft	5.5 ft	7.3 ft	181
Sierra Canal North	SE	6.9 ft	6.6 ft	7.5 ft	189
Sierra Canal South	SE	6.6 ft	6.2 ft	7.1 ft	214
Singapore Canal	SE	6.8 ft	6.2 ft	7.9 ft	169
Sonata Canal	SE	8.6 ft	7.8 ft	9.8 ft	434
South Retunda Canal	SE	6.7 ft	6.1 ft	7.2 ft	125
South Spreader Waterway	SW	7.7 ft	6.6 ft	8.8 ft	1,130
South Tennyson Canal	SE	8.5 ft	7.6 ft	9.4 ft	343
Spencer Canal	SE	6.8 ft	6.3 ft	7.2 ft	160
Spreader Waterway East	SE	5.9 ft	5.3 ft	6.3 ft	28
Stanley Canal	SE	6.3 ft	5.9 ft	7.0 ft	196
Stokes Canal	SE	6.9 ft	6.3 ft	7.7 ft	376
Stokes Canal North	SE	6.8 ft	6.3 ft	7.1 ft	173
Styvesant Canal	SE	7.4 ft	6.9 ft	7.8 ft	209
Swan Canal	SE	9.3 ft	8.3 ft	10.6 ft	202
Swinburne Canal	SE	6.4 ft	5.7 ft	7.2 ft	383
Tampico Canal	SE	6.7 ft	5.4 ft	7.5 ft	216
Tequila Canal	SE	6.5 ft	6.2 ft	7.1 ft	584
Thackeray Canal	SE	7.2 ft	6.5 ft	7.8 ft	772
Tobago Canal	SE	6.8 ft	6.1 ft	7.5 ft	206
Towne Canal	SE	6.8 ft	6.4 ft	7.3 ft	134
Trinidad Canal	SE	6.8 ft	5.9 ft	7.3 ft	130
Trojan Canal E	SE	8.9 ft	7.7 ft	10.3 ft	161
Trojan Canal W	SW	8.8 ft	7.8 ft	9.7 ft	91
Upton Canal	SE	6.9 ft	6.5 ft	7.5 ft	105
Vendome Canal	SE	6.3 ft	4.7 ft	9.3 ft	209
Venetian Canal	SE	6.3 ft	5.2 ft	8.6 ft	206
Versaille Canal	SE	5.7 ft	5.3 ft	6.0 ft	3
Viceroy Canal	SE	6.0 ft	5.4 ft	8.7 ft	238
Victoria Canal	SE	6.3 ft	5.7 ft	7.3 ft	204
Viking Canal	SE	6.5 ft	5.1 ft	8.9 ft	209
Villareal Canal	SE	9.1 ft	7.9 ft	10.1 ft	235
Vincennes Canal	SE	6.3 ft	5.1 ft	9.1 ft	230
Vista Grande Canal	SE	8.9 ft	7.8 ft	9.8 ft	277
Waikiki Canal	SE	6.1 ft	5.4 ft	6.7 ft	300
Walpole Canal	SE	6.0 ft	5.6 ft	6.4 ft	151
Wavell Canal	SE	6.6 ft	6.0 ft	7.3 ft	198
Wendy Canal	SE	10.2 ft	9.2 ft	11.3 ft	257
Whipporwill Canal North	SE	7.0 ft	6.6 ft	7.7 ft	178
Whipporwill Canal South	SE	6.2 ft	5.8 ft	6.8 ft	211
Wimberdon Canal	SE	8.9 ft	8.1 ft	9.8 ft	160
Woodbine Canal	SE	8.2 ft	7.2 ft	8.8 ft	159
Woodland Canal	SE	8.0 ft	7.4 ft	8.6 ft	161
Wyonne Canal	SE	6.5 ft	5.9 ft	6.9 ft	118
York Canal	SE	6.2 ft	5.5 ft	6.7 ft	228

Feet below the City's survey datum. Typical = median of the readings along the canal; shallow stretch = 90th-percentile shallow reading; deep stretch = 10th-percentile. Names and outlines are the City's. Canal not listed? It hasn't been surveyed yet. The canal map covers every named canal, salt or fresh.

Questions people ask

How deep are the canals in Cape Coral?

Of the 254 saltwater canals the City has surveyed, the typical bottom is about 6.8 feet below the survey datum, with shallow stretches around 6.2 feet. The deep basins near Cape Harbour run 15 to 23 feet. Individual canals vary, which is why this page lists each one.

Is Cape Coral canal water deep enough for a boat?

For most of the surveyed canals, yes for the boats people actually keep here: center consoles, bay boats and cruisers in the 20-to-30-foot range on lifts. The handful of canals with shallow stretches under 5 feet suit shallower-draft boats. Check the specific canal, then match it to your draft.

Where does this depth data come from?

The City of Cape Coral Public Works Department's Canal Bathymetric Depth Survey, a public dataset of about 111,000 sounded points collected to plan dredging. This page summarizes those points by canal; the City's own map shows every individual reading.

Why isn't my canal on the list?

The City has surveyed the southeast canal network and part of the southwest so far. The northwest and the remaining southwest canals are not measured yet. This page is rechecked monthly and adds canals as the City publishes them.

Does the City dredge the canals?

Yes. Cape Coral has a citywide canal dredging program funded through stormwater fees, with a permitted limit of five feet below mean low water. Canals are prioritized by bottom elevation and boat traffic.

Can I get the depth at a specific dock?

Yes. Send Laurel the address and she will pull the City's individual readings along that seawall and tell you what they mean for a lift and your boat. Call or text 239-672-1699.

About this data

Depth readings: City of Cape Coral Public Works Department, Canal Bathymetric Depth Survey (public dataset, City data as of April 7, 2026). Canal names and outlines: City of Cape Coral GIS. Per-canal figures on this page are the median, 90th-percentile-shallow and 10th-percentile-deep readings inside each canal outline, computed by Laurel ONeill from the City's points; readings above the water line at seawall edges are excluded. Page rechecked monthly; "Last updated" at the top reflects the most recent refresh. Verify depths at a specific dock before relying on them.

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