Lake · Leningrad Oblast

Lake Peipus

27 m89 ft

Area: 2,647 km²
Max depth: 8 m
Tonight: 10°CCloudy · Wind 34 km/h SE

Lake Peipus is a lake at 27 m above sea level in Leningrad Oblast, Russia, 2,647 km² in area and 80.7 km long.

All facts

Surface elevation: 27 m
Length: 80.7 km
Shoreline: 418.3 km

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3D map

Lake Peipus 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 Peipus 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 Peipus elevation profile

West → east through the centre

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Downloads

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

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Print & wall

JPGLake Peipus satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-09-07.

3D printing & 3D apps

GIS & GPS

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Lake

Lake Peipus in numbers

Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.

Shoreline: 418.3 km

Weather

Lake Peipus weather

Today · Cloudy · 10 / 11°C (50 / 52°F) · Wind 34 km/h SE

Lake Peipus forecast for about 27 m.

Today10°11°–34 km/h SE
Mon8°11°0.8 mm35 km/h S
Tue7°10°–26 km/h S
Wed7°9°–19 km/h S
Thu8°8°–15 km/h S
Fri7°8°–11 km/h NW
Sat6°8°–12 km/h NE
Sun5°7°–12 km/h NE
Mon4°6°–11 km/h NE
Tue5°6°–13 km/h W

Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 25, 11:30 UTC.

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°

99.3%

Moderate, 15–30°

0.7%

Steep, 30–45°

0.0%

Cliffs, 45° and over

0.0%

Steeper than 30°: 0.0% of the 400 km² view
Relief in view: 61 m low point 25 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Water 58.2%Trees 33.3%Grassland 7.6%

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; 257 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6

Mallard10
Great Egret8
Great Cormorant7
White Stork7
Yellowhammer6
European Starling5

Where it sits

Where Lake Peipus 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 2026-09-07)
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 · Wikipedia