Lake · Buryatia

Lake Baikal

455 m1,493 ft

Area: 31,633 km²
Max depth: 1,642 m
Tonight: -2°CLight snow showers · Wind 36 km/h W

Lake Baikal is a lake at 455 m above sea level in Buryatia, Russia, 31,633 km² in area and 604.3 km long.

All facts

Surface elevation: 455 m
Length: 604.3 km
Shoreline: 2,341.5 km

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3D map

Lake Baikal 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Lake Baikal topographic map

25 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 125 mShowing west → east through the centre

Lake Baikal elevation profile

West → east through the centre

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Downloads

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Print & wall

JPGLake Baikal satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-08-04.

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GIS & GPS

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Lake

Lake Baikal in numbers

Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.

Shoreline: 2,341.5 km

Weather

Lake Baikal weather

Today · Light snow showers at night · -2 / 0°C (28 / 32°F) · 2.0 mm · Wind 36 km/h W

Lake Baikal forecast for about 455 m.

Today-2°0°2.0 mm36 km/h W
Sun-2°1°4.6 mm46 km/h NW
Mon-5°-3°4.1 mm45 km/h NW
Tue-3°-1°4.4 mm30 km/h W
Wed1°2°5.3 mm30 km/h W
Thu-8°1°6.0 mm42 km/h NW
Fri-8°-7°2.5 mm22 km/h NW
Sat-10°-5°0.3 mm23 km/h NW
Sun-6°-3°0.7 mm12 km/h W
Mon-9°-2°0.2 mm15 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: 96% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°

96.0%

Moderate, 15–30°

3.9%

Steep, 30–45°

0.1%

Cliffs, 45° and over

0.0%

Steeper than 30°: 0.1% of the 400 km² view
Relief in view: 628 m low point 455 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Water 71.0%Trees 28.4%

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

Where it sits

Where Lake Baikal sits

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 2026-08-04)
Land cover: © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts: Wikidata (CC0)
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