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Lake Toba

901 m2,956 ft
Area
1,131 km²
Max depth
529 m

Lake Toba is a lake at 901 m above sea level in North Sumatra, Indonesia, 1,131 km² in area and 89.1 km long.

All facts
Surface elevation
901 m
Length
89.1 km
Shoreline
513.7 km
Open the 3D view
3D map

Lake Toba 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 Toba topographic map

50 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 250 mShowing west → east through the centre

Lake Toba elevation profile

West → east through the centre

Hover the profile to read elevation and distance.Tap or drag along the profile to read elevation and distance.
Downloads

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

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Lake

Lake Toba in numbers

Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.

Shoreline
513.7 km
Weather

Lake Toba weather

Lake Toba forecast for about 901 m: unavailable right now. Try again in a few minutes.

Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data.

Camping & parking

Camping & parking near Lake Toba

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

All mapped places 1
PlaceDistance
Campsite7.9 km NNW
Slope

Slope

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

Mostly gentle: 76% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°
76.1%
Moderate, 15–30°
17.4%
Steep, 30–45°
5.9%
Cliffs, 45° and over
0.5%
Steeper than 30°
6.4% of the 400 km² view
Relief in view
914 m low point 849 m
Land cover

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Trees 55.7%Water 28.6%Grassland 11.5%Cropland 3.3%Built-up 0.9%

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

Where it sits

Where Lake Toba sits

Region
North Sumatra3Indonesia71Asia1,096
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.
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)
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)
Sources
Wikidata · GeoNames · Wikipedia