Lake · Michigan

Lake Saint Clair

173 m568 ft

Area: 1,141 km²
Max depth: 3 m

Lake Saint Clair is a lake at 173 m above sea level in Michigan, United States, 1,141 km² in area and 46.7 km long.

All facts

Surface elevation: 173 m
Length: 46.7 km
Shoreline: 943.7 km

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3D map

Lake Saint Clair 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Lake Saint Clair topographic map

2 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 10 mShowing west → east through the centre

Lake Saint Clair elevation profile

West → east through the centre

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Downloads

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

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Print & wall

JPGLake Saint Clair satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2025-09-30.

3D printing & 3D apps

GIS & GPS

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Lake

Lake Saint Clair in numbers

Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.

Shoreline: 943.7 km

Weather

Lake Saint Clair weather

Lake Saint Clair forecast for about 173 m: unavailable right now. Try again in a few minutes.

Forecast data: NOAA National Weather Service, public domain.

Slope

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

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

Gentle, 0–15°

100.0%

Moderate, 15–30°

0.0%

Steep, 30–45°

0.0%

Cliffs, 45° and over

0.0%

Steeper than 30°: 0.0% of the 400 km² view
Relief in view: 39 m low point 164 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Water 67.5%Wetland 16.4%Trees 6.7%Cropland 6.3%Grassland 2.7%

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; 517 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6

Bluegill62
European Frog-bit44
Pumpkinseed39
Northern Map Turtle29
Yellow Perch27
Blue Dasher15

Where it sits

Where Lake Saint Clair sits

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Charles Mill Lake195 km S

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 2025-09-30)
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 NOAA National Weather Service (public domain)
Sources: Wikidata · GeoNames · Wikipedia