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Lake · Canton of Zurich

Greifensee

469 m1,539 ft
Max depth
34 m
Tonight
4°CLight rain showers · Wind 24 km/h SW

Greifensee is a lake at 469 m above sea level in Canton of Zurich, Switzerland.

All facts
Surface elevation
469 m
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Greifensee 3D map

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Surface
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Topographic map

Greifensee terrain and contours

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.

Index contours every 25 mShowing west → east through the centre

Greifensee elevation profile

West → east through the centre

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Weather

Greifensee weather

Tonight · Light rain showers · 4°C (39°F) · 1.1 mm · Wind 24 km/h SW

Greifensee forecast for about 469 m.

  • Tonight4°1.1 mm24 km/h SW
  • Today3°8°13.6 mm23 km/h SW
  • Sun6°12°10.9 mm34 km/h SW
  • Mon5°12°–11 km/h S
  • Tue8°17°–6 km/h SE
  • Wed7°11°2.6 mm12 km/h NE
  • Thu3°12°–12 km/h NE
  • Fri3°10°–4 km/h E
  • Sat4°10°0.3 mm5 km/h N
  • Sun4°10°5.8 mm12 km/h SW

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

Camping & parking near Greifensee

Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Greifensee, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.

  • Nearest parking

    Jungholz

    0.7 km ENE · +2 more within 0.9 km

  • Nearest campsite

    Rausenbach

    1.1 km WSW · +2 more within 1.9 km

  • Nearest hut

    Waldhütte Maur

    2.1 km WNW · +2 more within 3.3 km

All mapped places 9
PlaceDistance
JungholzParking0.7 km ENE
Badeanstalt MaurParking0.8 km SW
TuricumParking0.9 km ESE
RausenbachCampsite1.1 km WSW
Naturfreunde ZeltplatzCampsite1.5 km WNW
MaurholzCampsite1.9 km WNW
Waldhütte MaurHut2.1 km WNW
WaldhütteHut2.8 km NNW
Waldhütte Näniker HardHut3.3 km NNE
Slope

Slope

Share of the 4 × 4 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mostly gentle: 98% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°
98.3%
Moderate, 15–30°
1.7%
Steep, 30–45°
0.0%
Cliffs, 45° and over
0.0%
Steeper than 30°
0.0% of the 16 km² view
Relief in view
88 m low point 434 m
Land cover

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Water 25.9%Trees 23.0%Built-up 18.0%Grassland 17.8%Cropland 15.3%

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

Where it sits

Where Greifensee sits

Region
Canton of Zurich14Switzerland432Europe2,143
Nearby

Nearby places

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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 2026-09-25)
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)
Forecast
Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)
Sources
Wikidata · GeoNames · Wikipedia