Hood Canal is long and narrow with an average width of and a mean depth of . It has of shoreline and of tideland. Its surface area is and it contains a volume of water totaling . Hood Canal extends for about southwest from the entrance between Foulweather Bluff and Tala Point to Union, where it turns sharply to the northeast, a stretch called The Great Bend. It continues for about to Belfair, where it ends in a shallow tideland called Lynch Cove.