Lake · Jalisco

Lake Chapala

1,519 m4,984 ft

Area: 1,086 km²
Max depth: 10 m
Tonight: 15°CPartly cloudy · Wind 15 km/h NW

Lake Chapala is a lake at 1,519 m above sea level in Jalisco, Mexico, 1,086 km² in area and 77.3 km long.

All facts

Surface elevation: 1,519 m
Length: 77.3 km
Shoreline: 237.9 km

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3D map

Lake Chapala 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Lake Chapala topographic map

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.

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Lake Chapala elevation profile

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Print & wall

JPGLake Chapala satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-02-20.

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Lake

Lake Chapala in numbers

Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.

Shoreline: 237.9 km

Weather

Lake Chapala weather

Today · Fair · 15 / 23°C (59 / 73°F) · Wind 15 km/h NW

Lake Chapala forecast for about 1,519 m.

Today15°23°–15 km/h NW
Sat15°26°0.6 mm19 km/h NE
Sun16°25°0.6 mm25 km/h E
Mon16°25°13.6 mm9 km/h SE
Tue16°18°3.2 mm9 km/h E
Wed16°21°0.9 mm11 km/h E
Thu15°22°0.2 mm10 km/h SE
Fri16°22°0.4 mm6 km/h SE
Sat16°24°1.1 mm7 km/h S
Sun15°25°0.2 mm5 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 23, 23:18 UTC.

Slope

Share of the 20 × 20 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mostly gentle: 89% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°

88.5%

Moderate, 15–30°

8.4%

Steep, 30–45°

3.0%

Cliffs, 45° and over

0.1%

Steeper than 30°: 3.1% of the 400 km² view
Relief in view: 861 m low point 1,517 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Water 45.8%Trees 20.9%Cropland 18.4%Grassland 7.4%Shrubland 5.2%Built-up 2.2%

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

Where it sits

Where Lake Chapala sits

Nearby

Nearby places

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 2026-02-20)
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