Kochelsee
- Area
- 5.83 km²
- Max depth
- 66 m
- Tonight
- 5°CPartly cloudy · Wind 15 km/h W
Kochelsee is a lake at 598 m above sea level in Bavaria, Germany, 5.83 km² in area and 3.7 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 598 m
- Length
- 3.7 km
- Shoreline
- 16.6 km
Camping & parking near Kochelsee
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Kochelsee, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
1.3 km SSE
Nearest campsite
Campingplatz Kesselberg
Nearest caravan site
Glentleiten Freilichtmuseum Parking
Nearest hut
Berggasthaus Herzogstand
All mapped places 8
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Campingplatz KesselbergCampsite | 1.2 km SE |
| Parking | 1.3 km SSE |
| Parking | 1.3 km SSE |
| Parking | 1.4 km SE |
| Campingplatz RenkenCampsite | 1.5 km ESE |
| Glentleiten Freilichtmuseum ParkingCaravan site | 4.5 km WNW |
| Berggasthaus HerzogstandHut | 4.7 km SSW |
| Camping WalchenseeCampsite | 7.3 km SSW |
Kochelsee in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 16.6 km≈4¼ h to walk around
Kochelsee 3D map
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Kochelsee 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.
Kochelsee elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Kochelsee weather
Tonight · Partly cloudy · 5°C (41°F) · Wind 15 km/h W
Kochelsee forecast for about 598 m.
- Tonight5°–15 km/h W
- Today3°9°3.6 mm24 km/h W
- Sun5°14°17.0 mm22 km/h SW
- Mon7°13°–7 km/h NW
- Tue10°20°–6 km/h N
- Wed8°12°4.2 mm5 km/h N
- Thu4°12°–7 km/h N
- Fri3°12°–6 km/h N
- Sat3°11°–6 km/h N
- Sun5°9°3.3 mm4 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.
Slope
Share of the 5.7 × 5.7 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 67% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 14.4% of the 32 km² view
- Relief in view
- 961 m low point 597 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 2.9 km; 707 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Hart's-tongue fern24
- Common Coot20
- Great Crested Grebe18
- Mute Swan16
- Liverleaf16
- Drooping bittercress15
Where Kochelsee sits
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- Terrain
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- Imagery
- Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (scene 2026-07-24)
- 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)
- Summits
- © OpenStreetMap contributors, via Overture Maps Foundation (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)