Lake · Xinjiang

Aksai Chin Lake

4,854 m15,925 ft

Area: 175 km²
Tonight: -9°CClear · Wind 8 km/h W

Aksai Chin Lake is a lake at 4,854 m above sea level in Xinjiang, People's Republic of China, 175 km² in area and 21.1 km long.

All facts

Surface elevation: 4,854 m
Length: 21.1 km
Shoreline: 75.7 km

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Lake

Aksai Chin Lake in numbers

Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.

Shoreline: 75.7 km

3D map

Aksai Chin Lake 3D map

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Surface

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Topographic map

Aksai Chin Lake terrain and contours

20 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.

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Aksai Chin Lake elevation profile

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Weather

Aksai Chin Lake weather

Tonight · Clear · -9°C (16°F) · Wind 8 km/h W

Aksai Chin Lake forecast for about 4,854 m.

Tonight-9°–8 km/h W
Today-10°-4°0.2 mm18 km/h N
Sun-11°-4°–23 km/h NW
Mon-11°-2°–29 km/h SW
Tue-10°-4°–23 km/h W
Wed-9°-4°–23 km/h SW
Thu-8°-1°–23 km/h SW
Fri-8°0°–28 km/h SW
Sat-8°-1°–23 km/h W
Sun-10°-3°–21 km/h W

Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 23, 23:19 UTC.

Slope

Share of the 20 × 20 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mostly gentle: 96% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°

95.6%

Moderate, 15–30°

4.2%

Steep, 30–45°

0.2%

Cliffs, 45° and over

0.0%

Steeper than 30°: 0.2% of the 400 km² view
Relief in view: 587 m low point 4,847 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Water 54.8%Bare rock / sparse 44.9%

Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.

Where it sits

Where Aksai Chin Lake sits

Nearby

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JPGAksai Chin Lake satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-07-17.

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Sources

Data sources

Terrain: Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
Imagery: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (scene 2026-07-17)
Land cover: © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts: Wikidata (CC0)
Wildlife: iNaturalist community observations, counts only
Panorama: Includes Copernicus WorldDEM-90 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
Forecast: Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)
Sources: Wikidata · GeoNames · Wikipedia