Lake · Xinjiang

Kanas Lake

1,369 m4,491 ft

Area: 45 km²
Max depth: 120 m
Tonight: -11°CCloudy · Wind 10 km/h E

Kanas Lake is a lake at 1,369 m above sea level in Xinjiang, People's Republic of China, 45 km² in area and 23.4 km long.

All facts

Surface elevation: 1,369 m
Length: 23.4 km
Shoreline: 59.7 km

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3D map

Kanas Lake 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Kanas Lake topographic map

100 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.

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Kanas Lake elevation profile

West → east through the centre

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Print & wall

JPGKanas Lake satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-09-12.

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GIS & GPS

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Lake

Kanas Lake in numbers

Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.

Shoreline: 59.7 km

Weather

Kanas Lake weather

Today · Snow · -11 / -4°C (12 / 25°F) · 3.2 mm · Wind 10 km/h E

Kanas Lake forecast for about 1,369 m.

Today-11°-4°3.2 mm10 km/h E
Sun-13°-3°–9 km/h E
Mon-8°4°–6 km/h SE
Tue-6°3°–2 km/h SE
Wed-6°2°–3 km/h NW
Thu-6°3°–3 km/h E
Fri-4°0°4.0 mm3 km/h SE
Sat-8°1°–3 km/h E
Sun-7°2°–3 km/h W
Mon-5°5°–2 km/h SE

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: 51% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°

51.3%

Moderate, 15–30°

38.6%

Steep, 30–45°

9.8%

Cliffs, 45° and over

0.3%

Steeper than 30°: 10.1% of the 400 km² view
Relief in view: 1,652 m low point 1,357 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Grassland 35.9%Trees 35.4%Moss & lichen 15.1%Water 11.7%Bare rock / sparse 1.8%

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; 36 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6

Common Merganser4
Anomalous peony4
Great Cormorant3
Whooper Swan3
Common Goldeneye3
White Wagtail2

Where it sits

Where Kanas Lake sits

Nearby

Nearby places

AqkolLake46 km NE

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 2026-09-12)
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