Lake · Odisha

Chilika Lake

1 m3 ft

Area: 874 km²
Tonight: 22°CFair · Wind 12 km/h NE

Chilika Lake is a lake at 1 m above sea level in Odisha, India, 874 km² in area and 64.6 km long.

All facts

Surface elevation: 1 m
Length: 64.6 km
Shoreline: 549.3 km

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3D map

Chilika Lake 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Chilika Lake topographic map

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.

Index contours every 100 mShowing west → east through the centre

Chilika Lake elevation profile

West → east through the centre

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Downloads

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Print & wall

JPGChilika Lake satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-02-20.

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GIS & GPS

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Lake

Chilika Lake in numbers

Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.

Shoreline: 549.3 km

Weather

Chilika Lake weather

Today · Partly cloudy · 22 / 31°C (72 / 88°F) · Wind 12 km/h NE

Chilika Lake forecast for about 1 m.

Today22°31°–12 km/h NE
Sun22°30°–16 km/h NE
Mon22°30°–21 km/h N
Tue24°30°18.3 mm19 km/h NE
Wed24°24°146.1 mm22 km/h S
Thu25°26°44.6 mm29 km/h S
Fri25°30°0.4 mm24 km/h S
Sat24°30°0.9 mm6 km/h W
Sun22°30°–7 km/h NE
Mon22°30°0.2 mm7 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 Oct 24, 01:17 UTC.

Slope

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

Mostly gentle: 95% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°

95.4%

Moderate, 15–30°

3.9%

Steep, 30–45°

0.6%

Cliffs, 45° and over

0.0%

Steeper than 30°: 0.6% of the 400 km² view
Relief in view: 460 m low point 0 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Water 45.8%Cropland 31.8%Trees 17.6%Grassland 2.6%Built-up 1.7%

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

Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 10 km; 133 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6

Eurasian Wigeon25
Brahminy Kite17
Wood Sandpiper15
Little Cormorant13
Bar-headed Goose11
Indian Pond-Heron10

Where it sits

Where Chilika Lake sits

Nearby

Nearby places

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 2026-02-20)
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