Dongting Lake
- Area
- 1,076 km²
- Max depth
- 31 m
- Tonight
- 17°CClear · Wind 16 km/h N
Dongting Lake is a lake at 21 m above sea level in Hunan, People's Republic of China, 1,076 km² in area and 137.3 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 21 m
- Length
- 137.3 km
- Shoreline
- 1,918.9 km
Dongting Lake 3D map
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Dongting Lake 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.
Dongting Lake elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Dongting Lake downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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Dongting Lake in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 1,918.9 km
Dongting Lake weather
Today · Fair · 17 / 23°C (63 / 73°F) · Wind 16 km/h N
Dongting Lake forecast for about 21 m.
- Today17°23°–16 km/h N
- Sun17°24°–16 km/h NE
- Mon18°24°–22 km/h N
- Tue18°19°–26 km/h N
- Wed17°20°–14 km/h N
- Thu18°20°0.1 mm13 km/h N
- Fri19°21°4.8 mm17 km/h N
- Sat20°22°2.2 mm14 km/h N
- Sun16°19°11.7 mm33 km/h N
- Mon15°17°–27 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 23, 23:18 UTC.
Camping & parking near Dongting Lake
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Dongting Lake, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
君山公园停车场
All mapped places 1
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| 君山公园停车场Parking | 7.4 km NE |
Slope
Share of the 20 × 20 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 100% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 0.0% of the 400 km² view
- Relief in view
- 117 m low point 21 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 10 km; 55 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Black Drongo3
- Azure-winged Magpie3
- Masked Laughingthrush3
- Eurasian Curlew2
- Yellow-billed Grosbeak2
- Collared Finchbill2
Where Dongting Lake sits
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 2026-09-13)
- 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)