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Lake Inari

118 m387 ft
Area
1,090 km²
Max depth
92 m
Tonight
3°CPartly cloudy · Wind 11 km/h SE

Lake Inari is a lake at 118 m above sea level in Lapland, Finland, 1,090 km² in area and 84.2 km long.

All facts
Surface elevation
118 m
Length
84.2 km
Shoreline
3,403.7 km
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3D map

Lake Inari 3D map

Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 20 × 20 km

Surface
Vertical scale
Topographic map

Lake Inari topographic map

10 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 50 mShowing west → east through the centre

Lake Inari elevation profile

West → east through the centre

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Downloads

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

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Lake

Lake Inari in numbers

Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.

Shoreline
3,403.7 km
Weather

Lake Inari weather

Tonight · Partly cloudy · 3°C (37°F) · Wind 11 km/h SE

Lake Inari forecast for about 118 m.

  • Tonight3°–11 km/h SE
  • Today3°5°0.7 mm16 km/h S
  • Sun5°6°–20 km/h S
  • Mon5°6°4.4 mm30 km/h S
  • Tue5°6°2.2 mm28 km/h S
  • Wed5°7°–38 km/h S
  • Thu4°6°–24 km/h SW
  • Fri3°5°–19 km/h W
  • Sat2°4°–20 km/h SW
  • Sun2°4°–22 km/h SW
  • Mon3°3°–21 km/h SW

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, 23:30 UTC.

Camping & parking

Camping & parking near Lake Inari

Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Lake Inari, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.

  • Nearest hut

    Petäjäsaari autiotupa

    5.5 km S · +1 more within 6.3 km

All mapped places 2
PlaceDistance
Petäjäsaari autiotupaHut5.5 km S
Kahkusaari autiotupaHut6.3 km NNE
Slope

Slope

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

Mostly gentle: 99% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°
99.0%
Moderate, 15–30°
1.0%
Steep, 30–45°
0.0%
Cliffs, 45° and over
0.0%
Steeper than 30°
0.0% of the 400 km² view
Relief in view
151 m low point 118 m
Land cover

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Water 59.8%Trees 33.3%Grassland 4.8%Wetland 2.0%

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 10 km; 44 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6
  • Siberian Jay12
  • Western Capercaillie4
  • Common Butterwort3
  • Arctic Kidney Lichen3
  • Eurasian Bee Beetle2
  • Yellow Moosedung Moss2
Where it sits

Where Lake Inari sits

Region
Lapland6Finland15Europe2,143
Nearby

Nearby places

More 1
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 2025 (scene 2025-07-31)
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)
Wildlife
iNaturalist community observations, counts only
Forecast
Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)
Sources
Wikidata · GeoNames · Wikipedia