Lake · Ontario

Lake Nipigon

259 m850 ft

Area: 4,463 km²
Max depth: 165 m
Tonight: 11°CCloudy · Wind 35 km/h S

Lake Nipigon is a lake at 259 m above sea level in Ontario, Canada, 4,463 km² in area and 115.2 km long.

All facts

Surface elevation: 259 m
Length: 115.2 km
Shoreline: 2,341.3 km

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3D map

Lake Nipigon 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Lake Nipigon topographic map

5 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 25 mShowing west → east through the centre

Lake Nipigon elevation profile

West → east through the centre

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Downloads

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

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Print & wall

JPGLake Nipigon satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-09-22.

3D printing & 3D apps

GIS & GPS

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Lake

Lake Nipigon in numbers

Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.

Shoreline: 2,341.3 km

Weather

Lake Nipigon weather

Tonight · Cloudy · 11°C (52°F) · Wind 35 km/h S

Lake Nipigon forecast for about 259 m.

Tonight11°–35 km/h S
Sat9°15°–43 km/h S
Sun5°11°–41 km/h NW
Mon4°5°–26 km/h N
Tue5°5°2.0 mm31 km/h SE
Wed8°10°9.7 mm30 km/h S
Thu8°9°–33 km/h NW
Fri8°9°–20 km/h SE
Sat10°11°17.3 mm37 km/h S
Sun7°12°16.3 mm43 km/h NW

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: 98% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°

98.3%

Moderate, 15–30°

1.5%

Steep, 30–45°

0.2%

Cliffs, 45° and over

0.0%

Steeper than 30°: 0.2% of the 400 km² view
Relief in view: 131 m low point 259 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Water 81.7%Trees 16.7%Grassland 1.6%

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

Where it sits

Where Lake Nipigon 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 2026-09-22)
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