Bostalsee
- Area
- 1.10 km²
- Tonight
- 4°CRain · Wind 29 km/h SW
Bostalsee is a lake at 399 m above sea level in Saarland, Germany, 1.10 km² in area and 1.9 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 399 m
- Length
- 1.9 km
- Shoreline
- 7.1 km
Bostalsee in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 7.1 km≈1¾ h to walk around
Bostalsee 3D map
Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 4 × 4 km
Bostalsee terrain and contours
10 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.
Bostalsee elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Bostalsee weather
Tonight · Rain · 4°C (39°F) · 1.8 mm · Wind 29 km/h SW
Bostalsee forecast for about 399 m.
- Tonight4°1.8 mm29 km/h SW
- Today4°8°42.1 mm35 km/h S
- Sun6°10°10.0 mm29 km/h SW
- Mon6°10°1.1 mm20 km/h SW
- Tue10°15°0.3 mm17 km/h SW
- Wed5°12°–13 km/h NW
- Thu5°13°–9 km/h NE
- Fri5°11°–10 km/h NE
- Sat4°8°0.6 mm10 km/h E
- Sun3°7°4.5 mm12 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 24, 01:17 UTC.
Camping & parking near Bostalsee
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Bostalsee, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
Busparkplatz
Nearest caravan site
Wohnmobilstellplatz Gonnesweiler
Nearest campsite
Campingplatz Bostalsee
Nearest hut
7.7 km SW
All mapped places 9
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| BusparkplatzParking | 0.7 km WSW |
| Parking | 0.7 km WSW |
| P4Parking | 0.7 km SE |
| Wohnmobilstellplatz GonnesweilerCaravan site | 0.8 km E |
| Wohnmobil- & Glampingpark DraussZeit BostalseeCaravan site | 0.8 km WNW |
| Wohnmobilstellplatz BostalseeCaravan site | 1.2 km SW |
| Campingplatz BostalseeCampsite | 1.3 km SW |
| KapellenwieseCampsite | 5.2 km S |
| Hut | 7.7 km SW |
Slope
Share of the 4 × 4 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 89% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 0.2% of the 16 km² view
- Relief in view
- 166 m low point 369 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; 170 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Carrion Crow11
- Great Cormorant10
- European Toad8
- Long-tailed Tit7
- Canada Goose6
- Common Coot5
Where Bostalsee sits
Nearby places
Bostalsee downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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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 2026-08-13)
- 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)
- Wildlife
- iNaturalist community observations, counts only
- Forecast
- Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)