Lake · China

Ayakum Lake

3,883 m12,740 ft

Area: 958 km²
Max depth: 50 m
Tonight: -4°CFair · Wind 27 km/h NE

Ayakum Lake is a lake at 3,883 m above sea level in People's Republic of China, 958 km² in area and 80.0 km long.

All facts

Surface elevation: 3,883 m
Length: 80.0 km
Shoreline: 277.4 km

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Lake

Ayakum Lake in numbers

Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.

Shoreline: 277.4 km

3D map

Ayakum Lake 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Ayakum 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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Ayakum Lake elevation profile

West → east through the centre

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Weather

Ayakum Lake weather

Today · Clear · -4 / 2°C (25 / 36°F) · Wind 27 km/h NE

Ayakum Lake forecast for about 3,883 m.

Today-4°2°–27 km/h NE
Fri-5°1°–30 km/h NW
Sat-5°0°–33 km/h NW
Sun-7°-3°–27 km/h W
Mon-10°-5°–16 km/h NE
Tue-8°-4°–14 km/h S
Wed-8°-3°–14 km/h S
Thu-6°-2°0.1 mm16 km/h NE
Fri-4°-1°–22 km/h W
Sat-3°-2°–11 km/h NE

Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Nov 5, 05:17 UTC.

Slope

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

Mostly gentle: 98% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°

97.5%

Moderate, 15–30°

2.0%

Steep, 30–45°

0.4%

Cliffs, 45° and over

0.0%

Steeper than 30°: 0.4% of the 400 km² view
Relief in view: 377 m low point 3,878 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Water 70.4%Bare rock / sparse 29.6%

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

Where it sits

Where Ayakum Lake sits

Nearby

Nearby places

Taitema Lake831 m239 km NNW

Downloads

Ayakum Lake downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM

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Print & wall

JPGAyakum Lake satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-08-04.

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GIS & GPS

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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 2026-08-04)
Land cover: © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts: Wikidata (CC0)
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