Chiemsee
- Area
- 76 km²
- Max depth
- 72 m
- Tonight
- 7°CCloudy · Wind 19 km/h W
Chiemsee is a lake at 518 m above sea level in Bavaria, Germany, 76 km² in area and 14.2 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 518 m
- Length
- 14.2 km
- Shoreline
- 86.7 km
Chiemsee 3D map
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Chiemsee topographic map
5 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.
Chiemsee elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Chiemsee downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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Chiemsee in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 86.7 km
Chiemsee weather
Tonight · Cloudy · 7°C (45°F) · Wind 19 km/h W
Chiemsee forecast for about 518 m.
- Tonight7°–19 km/h W
- Today4°9°0.9 mm27 km/h W
- Sun6°10°18.5 mm25 km/h SW
- Mon5°11°0.5 mm19 km/h W
- Tue8°16°–7 km/h SW
- Wed7°11°3.0 mm12 km/h W
- Thu4°10°–5 km/h NE
- Fri3°10°–6 km/h NE
- Sat3°9°0.3 mm4 km/h SW
- Sun5°9°3.7 mm13 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 Chiemsee
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Chiemsee, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
3.4 km W
Nearest campsite
Chiemgau Camping Lambach
Nearest caravan site
Stellplatz für Wohnmobile Übersee (Upper Bavaria)
All mapped places 7
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Parking | 3.4 km W |
| Parking | 3.7 km NW |
| Parking | 3.7 km NW |
| Campsite | 3.8 km W |
| Chiemgau Camping LambachCampsite | 4.5 km NNW |
| Chiemsee StrandcampingCampsite | 4.7 km ESE |
| Stellplatz für Wohnmobile Übersee (Upper Bavaria)Caravan site | 5.6 km S |
Slope
Share of the 16.2 × 16.2 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 95% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 0.3% of the 262 km² view
- Relief in view
- 146 m low point 515 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 8.1 km; 1,777 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Setaceous Hebrew Character200
- Bird-cherry Ermine167
- Yellow Shell Moth153
- Box Tree Moth140
- Black-headed Gull135
- Mallard134
Where Chiemsee sits
Nearby places
Data sources
- Terrain
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- Imagery
- Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (scene 2026-08-15)
- 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
- 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)