Lake · Aksaray Province

Lake Tuz

904 m2,966 ft

Area: 934 km²
Max depth: 2 m
Tonight: 9°CClear · Wind 8 km/h SE

Lake Tuz is a lake at 904 m above sea level in Aksaray Province, Turkey, 934 km² in area and 75.5 km long.

All facts

Surface elevation: 904 m
Length: 75.5 km
Shoreline: 302.1 km

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3D map

Lake Tuz 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Lake Tuz topographic map

10 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 50 mShowing west → east through the centre

Lake Tuz elevation profile

West → east through the centre

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Downloads

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Print & wall

JPGLake Tuz satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-09-06.

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GIS & GPS

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Lake

Lake Tuz in numbers

Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.

Shoreline: 302.1 km

Weather

Lake Tuz weather

Tonight · Clear · 9°C (48°F) · Wind 8 km/h SE

Lake Tuz forecast for about 904 m.

Tonight9°–8 km/h SE
Today8°20°–10 km/h NE
Sun8°20°–14 km/h SE
Mon8°20°–15 km/h S
Tue11°15°2.6 mm14 km/h SE
Wed11°18°2.7 mm13 km/h S
Thu9°12°12.8 mm20 km/h S
Fri8°14°2.2 mm16 km/h SW
Sat7°15°5.5 mm7 km/h S
Sun6°14°2.2 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 23, 23:18 UTC.

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°

99.9%

Moderate, 15–30°

0.1%

Steep, 30–45°

0.0%

Cliffs, 45° and over

0.0%

Steeper than 30°: 0.0% of the 400 km² view
Relief in view: 200 m low point 897 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Water 72.9%Cropland 11.1%Bare rock / sparse 9.4%Grassland 6.6%

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

Where it sits

Where Lake Tuz sits

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Mount ErciyesPeak · 3,916 m184 km E

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 2026-09-06)
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