Lake · New South Wales

Lake Cowal

204 m669 ft

Area: 92 km²
Tonight: 21°CFair · Wind 22 km/h N

Lake Cowal is a lake at 204 m above sea level in New South Wales, Australia, 92 km² in area and 14.5 km long.

All facts

Surface elevation: 204 m
Length: 14.5 km
Shoreline: 41.1 km

Open the 3D view

Lake

Lake Cowal in numbers

Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.

Shoreline: 41.1 km

3D map

Lake Cowal 3D map

Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 16.5 × 16.5 km

Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Lake Cowal 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.

Index contours every 100 mShowing west → east through the centre

Lake Cowal elevation profile

West → east through the centre

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Weather

Lake Cowal weather

Today · Fair · 21 / 29°C (70 / 84°F) · Wind 22 km/h N

Lake Cowal forecast for about 204 m.

Today21°29°–22 km/h N
Sun11°28°14.6 mm34 km/h N
Mon9°20°–19 km/h SW
Tue8°18°–20 km/h SW
Wed10°20°–13 km/h SW
Thu12°23°–7 km/h NE
Fri16°23°14.5 mm14 km/h N
Sat12°22°0.9 mm23 km/h W
Sun11°20°–19 km/h SW
Mon17°24°–7 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.

Slope

Share of the 16.5 × 16.5 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mostly gentle: 100% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°

99.5%

Moderate, 15–30°

0.4%

Steep, 30–45°

0.1%

Cliffs, 45° and over

0.0%

Steeper than 30°: 0.1% of the 272 km² view
Relief in view: 432 m low point -22 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Grassland 41.5%Cropland 26.4%Water 23.5%Trees 4.9%Bare rock / sparse 3.5%

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

Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 8.3 km; 77 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6

Whistling Kite8
Glossy Ibis6
Peron's Tree Frog5
Pied Stilt4
Spotted Marsh Frog4
Whiskered Tern4

Where it sits

Where Lake Cowal sits

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Black MountainPeak · 812 m239 km SE

Downloads

Lake Cowal downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM

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Print & wall

JPGLake Cowal satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-01-26.

3D printing & 3D apps

GIS & GPS

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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 2026-01-26)
Land cover: © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts: Wikidata (CC0)
Wildlife: iNaturalist community observations, counts only
Forecast: Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)
Sources: Wikidata · GeoNames · Wikipedia