Lake Zurich
- Area
- 87 km²
- Max depth
- 136 m
- Tonight
- 6°CFair · Wind 23 km/h W
Lake Zurich is a lake at 405 m above sea level in Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland, 87 km² in area and 34.7 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 405 m
- Length
- 34.7 km
- Shoreline
- 146.6 km
Lake Zurich 3D map
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Lake Zurich 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.
Lake Zurich elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Lake Zurich downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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Lake Zurich in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 146.6 km
Lake Zurich weather
Tonight · Fair · 6°C (43°F) · 0.9 mm · Wind 23 km/h W
Lake Zurich forecast for about 405 m.
- Tonight6°0.9 mm23 km/h W
- Today4°8°11.2 mm19 km/h SW
- Sun7°13°6.8 mm28 km/h SW
- Mon7°13°–6 km/h SE
- Tue9°17°–4 km/h NW
- Wed9°12°1.6 mm8 km/h NE
- Thu5°13°–8 km/h NE
- Fri5°11°–3 km/h W
- Sat5°11°0.4 mm4 km/h NW
- Sun6°11°8.4 mm10 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 24, 01:17 UTC.
Camping & parking near Lake Zurich
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Lake Zurich, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
Schifflände
Nearest hut
Waldhütte Männedorf
Nearest trailhead
Helsana Trail
Nearest caravan site
4.0 km S
Nearest campsite
Camping am Lützelsee
All mapped places 10
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Parking | 1.1 km ENE |
| SchiffländeParking | 1.1 km NE |
| Parking | 1.2 km ENE |
| Waldhütte MännedorfHut | 2.9 km NE |
| Helsana TrailTrailhead | 3.5 km ENE |
| Caravan site | 4.0 km S |
| Waldhütte PfannenstielHut | 5.4 km N |
| Waldhütte HerrlibergHut | 6.5 km NNW |
| Camping am LützelseeCampsite | 7.4 km E |
| HaslenCampsite | 7.6 km ENE |
Slope
Share of the 20 × 20 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 84% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 1.9% of the 400 km² view
- Relief in view
- 759 m low point 403 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 10 km of Lake Zurich.
Summit list 4
- 1Stollen661 m 2.2 km ENE
- 2Pfannenstiel853 m 4.1 km NNW
- 3Rechberghölzli690 m 6.6 km SW
- 4Höchi514 m 7.5 km SE
Where Lake Zurich sits
- Region
- Canton of St. Gallen10Switzerland432Europe2,143
Nearby places
Data sources
- Terrain
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- Imagery
- Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (scene 2026-09-25)
- 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)