Limmernsee
- Area
- 1.32 km²
- Tonight
- -3°CSnow · Wind 7 km/h W
Limmernsee is a lake at 1,784 m above sea level in Canton of Glarus, Switzerland, 1.32 km² in area and 2.8 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 1,784 m
- Length
- 2.8 km
- Shoreline
- 6.9 km
Limmernsee in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 6.9 km≈1¾ h to walk around
Limmernsee 3D map
Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 4.8 × 4.8 km
Limmernsee 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.
Limmernsee elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Limmernsee weather
Tonight · Snow · -3°C (27°F) · 1.3 mm · Wind 7 km/h W
Limmernsee forecast for about 1,784 m.
- Tonight-3°1.3 mm7 km/h W
- Today-4°-1°7.7 mm11 km/h S
- Sun-7°2°14.9 mm12 km/h SW
- Mon-9°6°–5 km/h W
- Tue0°9°–3 km/h W
- Wed0°6°0.3 mm2 km/h W
- Thu-5°5°–4 km/h W
- Fri-6°7°–5 km/h W
- Sat-5°5°0.7 mm5 km/h NW
- Sun0°3°5.6 mm3 km/h NW
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 Limmernsee
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Limmernsee, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest hut
Kistenpasshütte
Nearest campsite
1.5 km SE
Nearest parking
5.5 km NNW
All mapped places 9
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| KistenpasshütteHut | 1.3 km ENE |
| Campsite | 1.5 km SE |
| Campsite | 2.3 km ESE |
| BifertenhütteHut | 2.5 km SSE |
| MuttseehütteHut | 2.5 km N |
| Campsite | 3.4 km E |
| Parking | 5.5 km NNW |
| Parking | 5.5 km NNW |
| Parking | 6.7 km SE |
Slope
Share of the 4.8 × 4.8 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly steep: more than half the view is steeper than 30°, the angle of most avalanche terrain.
- Steeper than 30°
- 50.8% of the 23 km² view
- Relief in view
- 1,563 m low point 1,478 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.
Where Limmernsee sits
- Region
- Canton of Glarus11Switzerland432Europe2,143
Nearby places
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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 2026-09-27)
- 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)
- Forecast
- Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)