Bhimtal Lake
- Area
- 0.45 km²
- Tonight
- 13°CClear · Wind 9 km/h SW
Bhimtal Lake is a lake at 1,324 m above sea level in Uttarakhand, India, 0.45 km² in area and 1.6 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 1,324 m
- Length
- 1.6 km
- Shoreline
- 4.2 km
Bhimtal Lake in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 4.2 km≈1 h to walk around
Bhimtal Lake 3D map
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Bhimtal Lake terrain and contours
50 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.
Bhimtal Lake elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Bhimtal Lake weather
Today · Clear · 13 / 20°C (55 / 68°F) · 0.1 mm · Wind 9 km/h SW
Bhimtal Lake forecast for about 1,324 m.
- Today13°20°0.1 mm9 km/h SW
- Sun15°22°–9 km/h SW
- Mon14°23°–8 km/h SW
- Tue16°23°–6 km/h S
- Wed18°24°–6 km/h S
- Thu15°24°–7 km/h S
- Fri14°22°0.3 mm7 km/h SW
- Sat15°22°–8 km/h SW
- Sun14°21°–8 km/h S
Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 24, 01:17 UTC.
Camping & parking near Bhimtal Lake
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Bhimtal Lake, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
0.3 km NE
Slope
Share of the 4 × 4 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mixed terrain: gentle slopes, steep faces and everything between.
- Steeper than 30°
- 32.0% of the 16 km² view
- Relief in view
- 965 m low point 957 m
Land cover
ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.
Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 2 km; 224 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Common Punch20
- Lesser Punch12
- Sorrel Sapphire10
- Oriental Turtle-Dove8
- Great Cormorant8
- Mallard8
Where Bhimtal Lake sits
- Region
- Uttarakhand18India313Asia964
Nearby places
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Data sources
- Terrain
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- Imagery
- Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2025 (scene 2025-09-27)
- Land cover
- © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
- Facts
- Wikidata (CC0)
- Camping & parking, Geometry
- © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
- Summits
- © OpenStreetMap contributors, via Overture Maps Foundation (ODbL)
- 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)