Lake · Maharashtra

Lonar Lake

480 m1,575 ft

Area: 1.00 km²
Max depth: 170 m
Tonight: 22°CFair · Wind 13 km/h N

Lonar Lake is a lake at 480 m above sea level in Maharashtra, India, 1.00 km² in area and 1.3 km long.

All facts

Surface elevation: 480 m
Length: 1.3 km
Shoreline: 3.8 km

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3D map

Lonar Lake 3D map

Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 4 × 4 km

Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Lonar Lake topographic map

5 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 25 mShowing west → east through the centre

Lonar Lake 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

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

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Print & wall

JPGLonar Lake satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-03-01.

3D printing & 3D apps

GIS & GPS

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Lake

Lonar Lake in numbers

Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.

Shoreline: 3.8 km≈1 h to walk around

Weather

Lonar Lake weather

Today · Partly cloudy · 22 / 31°C (72 / 88°F) · 0.3 mm · Wind 13 km/h N

Lonar Lake forecast for about 480 m.

Today22°31°0.3 mm13 km/h N
Sun22°33°–16 km/h NE
Mon21°32°–19 km/h NE
Tue22°31°–23 km/h NE
Wed24°29°–22 km/h NE
Thu24°30°–18 km/h N
Fri23°32°0.8 mm16 km/h NW
Sat23°31°0.1 mm9 km/h NE
Sun23°31°0.3 mm14 km/h E

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.

Slope

Share of the 4 × 4 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mostly gentle: 93% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°

93.4%

Moderate, 15–30°

4.9%

Steep, 30–45°

1.7%

Cliffs, 45° and over

0.0%

Steeper than 30°: 1.7% of the 16 km² view
Relief in view: 131 m low point 480 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Cropland 46.3%Grassland 20.1%Trees 10.5%Built-up 8.8%Water 7.9%Shrubland 6.2%

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

Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 2 km; 83 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6

Plum-headed Parakeet4
Bengal Sacred Langur4
Spotted Dove4
Asian Green Bee-eater3
Eurasian Collared-Dove3
Little Grebe3

Where it sits

Where Lonar Lake sits

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.
Imagery: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (scene 2026-03-01)
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 · Wikipedia