Lake Sils
- Area
- 4.08 km²
- Max depth
- 71 m
- Tonight
- -6°CFog · Wind 7 km/h NE
Lake Sils is a lake at 1,796 m above sea level in Canton of the Grisons, Switzerland, 4.08 km² in area and 4.9 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 1,796 m
- Length
- 4.9 km
- Shoreline
- 15.0 km
Lake Sils in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 15.0 km≈3¾ h to walk around
Lake Sils 3D map
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Lake Sils terrain and contours
100 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.
Lake Sils elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Lake Sils weather
Tonight · Fog · -6°C (21°F) · Wind 7 km/h NE
Lake Sils forecast for about 1,796 m.
- Tonight-6°–7 km/h NE
- Today-8°-1°1.7 mm8 km/h E
- Sun-6°3°0.3 mm12 km/h S
- Mon-3°7°–5 km/h NE
- Tue3°11°–2 km/h NE
- Wed1°7°0.1 mm4 km/h N
- Thu-3°6°–2 km/h NW
- Fri-2°6°–5 km/h N
- Sat-3°4°0.2 mm6 km/h N
- Sun1°3°2.4 mm4 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 24, 01:17 UTC.
Camping & parking near Lake Sils
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Lake Sils, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
0.6 km NW
Nearest campsite
Plan Curtinac
Nearest hut
Alp da Segl
Nearest caravan site
Stellplatz Silvaplana
All mapped places 11
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Parking | 0.6 km NW |
| Parking | 0.6 km WNW |
| Parking | 1.0 km NNW |
| Plan CurtinacCampsite | 2.1 km SW |
| Alp da SeglHut | 4.2 km SE |
| Alp Muot SelvasHut | 5.9 km SE |
| SilvaplanaCampsite | 6.3 km NE |
| Cesa da SettHut | 7.4 km W |
| Stellplatz SilvaplanaCaravan site | 7.6 km NE |
| Stellplatz BivioCaravan site | 7.9 km NW |
| Camping BivioCampsite | 7.9 km NW |
Slope
Share of the 6.9 × 6.9 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mixed terrain: gentle slopes, steep faces and everything between.
- Steeper than 30°
- 30.7% of the 48 km² view
- Relief in view
- 1,563 m low point 1,568 m
Land cover
ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.
Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.
Nearby summits
Named peaks within 3.4 km of Lake Sils.
Summit list 3
- 1Piz Mez2,972 m 2.8 km N
- 2Piz Lagrev3,165 m 3.1 km NNW
- 3Piz d'Emmat Dadaint2,929 m 3.3 km NW
Where Lake Sils sits
- Region
- Canton of the Grisons96Switzerland432Europe2,143
Nearby places
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- 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 2026-09-27)
- 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)
- Summits
- © OpenStreetMap contributors, via Overture Maps Foundation (ODbL)
- Panorama
- Includes Copernicus WorldDEM-90 © 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.
- Forecast
- Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)