Gadsar Lake
- Area
- 0.39 km²
- Tonight
- -9°CPartly cloudy · Wind 6 km/h SW
Gadsar Lake is a lake at 3,572 m above sea level in Jammu and Kashmir, India, 0.39 km² in area and 0.9 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 3,572 m
- Length
- 0.9 km
- Shoreline
- 2.6 km
Gadsar Lake in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 2.6 km≈45 min to walk around
Gadsar Lake 3D map
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Gadsar 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.
Gadsar Lake elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Gadsar Lake weather
Today · Light snow showers · -9 / 1°C (16 / 34°F) · 0.5 mm · Wind 6 km/h SW
Gadsar Lake forecast for about 3,572 m.
- Today-9°1°0.5 mm6 km/h SW
- Sun-13°1°1.1 mm9 km/h N
- Mon-14°3°–10 km/h N
- Tue-7°3°–6 km/h S
- Wed-6°4°–6 km/h S
- Thu-4°5°–11 km/h S
- Fri-4°4°0.1 mm5 km/h S
- Sat-4°5°–6 km/h S
- Sun-3°5°–4 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 Gadsar Lake
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Gadsar Lake, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest campsite
Hejan
All mapped places 3
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| HejanCampsite | 3.6 km SW |
| Gadsar campsiteCampsite | 4.8 km NNW |
| ShadimargCampsite | 5.6 km SW |
Slope
Share of the 4 × 4 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly steep: more than half the view is steeper than 30°, the angle of most avalanche terrain.
- Steeper than 30°
- 60.0% of the 16 km² view
- Relief in view
- 1,340 m low point 3,434 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.
Where Gadsar Lake sits
- Region
- Jammu and Kashmir18India313Asia964
Nearby places
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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 2026-09-26)
- 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)