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Lake Avernus
- Area
- 0.55 km²
- Max depth
- 60 m
- Tonight
- 19°CCloudy · Wind 24 km/h SW
Lake Avernus is a lake at 1 m above sea level in Campania, Italy, 0.55 km² in area and 1.0 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 1 m
- Length
- 1.0 km
- Shoreline
- 2.8 km
Lake Avernus in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 2.8 km≈45 min to walk around
Lake Avernus 3D map
Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 4 × 4 km
Lake Avernus terrain and contours
20 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.
Lake Avernus elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Lake Avernus weather
Tonight · Cloudy · 19°C (66°F) · 1.5 mm · Wind 24 km/h SW
Lake Avernus forecast for about 1 m.
- Tonight19°1.5 mm24 km/h SW
- Today14°21°0.1 mm37 km/h NE
- Sun14°18°–15 km/h NE
- Mon15°21°–18 km/h N
- Tue14°21°–14 km/h NW
- Wed14°21°–14 km/h NE
- Thu15°20°0.1 mm11 km/h NE
- Fri14°19°–9 km/h NE
- Sat13°19°–12 km/h NE
- Sun13°19°–11 km/h NE
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 Lake Avernus
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Lake Avernus, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
0.4 km SW
Nearest campsite
Ideal Camping
Nearest caravan site
5.3 km NE
All mapped places 7
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Parking | 0.4 km SW |
| Parking | 0.6 km S |
| Parking | 0.7 km SSE |
| Ideal CampingCampsite | 4.9 km NNW |
| Caravan site | 5.3 km NE |
| Campeggio Internazionale Vulcano SolfataraCampsite | 5.4 km E |
| Varca d'Oro Napoli VillageCampsite | 7.4 km NNW |
Slope
Share of the 4 × 4 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 86% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 3.4% of the 16 km² view
- Relief in view
- 317 m low point -1 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 Lake Avernus sits
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 2026-07-20)
- 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)
- Forecast
- Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)