Kunming Lake
- Area
- 0.83 km²
- Max depth
- 2 m
- Tonight
- 11°CLight rain · Wind 7 km/h NE
Kunming Lake is a lake at 48 m above sea level in Beijing, People's Republic of China, 0.83 km² in area and 1.5 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 48 m
- Length
- 1.5 km
- Shoreline
- 7.3 km
Kunming Lake in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 7.3 km≈1¾ h to walk around
Kunming Lake 3D map
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Kunming Lake 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.
Kunming Lake elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Kunming Lake weather
Today · Light rain at night · 11 / 17°C (52 / 63°F) · 0.7 mm · Wind 7 km/h NE
Kunming Lake forecast for about 48 m.
- Today11°17°0.7 mm7 km/h NE
- Sun10°13°4.1 mm7 km/h W
- Mon9°18°–17 km/h NW
- Tue4°14°–13 km/h NW
- Wed3°13°–7 km/h S
- Thu5°16°–8 km/h S
- Fri5°18°–19 km/h NW
- Sat4°10°–9 km/h S
- Sun1°13°–20 km/h N
- Mon1°8°–14 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 Kunming Lake
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Kunming Lake, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
1.1 km WNW
Nearest campsite
大湖西侧林下帐篷区
All mapped places 6
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Parking | 1.1 km WNW |
| Parking | 1.2 km N |
| Parking | 1.2 km WNW |
| 大湖西侧林下帐篷区Campsite | 1.8 km ESE |
| 大舞台西南侧林下帐篷区Campsite | 1.9 km ESE |
| 中心草坪东侧林下帐篷区Campsite | 2.1 km ESE |
Slope
Share of the 4 × 4 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 98% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 0.0% of the 16 km² view
- Relief in view
- 80 m low point 38 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 km; 419 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Mandarin Duck246
- Mallard148
- Great Crested Grebe91
- Oriental Magpie87
- Common Merganser82
- Black Swan79
Where Kunming Lake sits
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- Terrain
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- Imagery
- Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (scene 2026-09-23)
- 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)