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Lake · Stockholm County

Mälaren

0 m0 ft
Area
1,058 km²
Max depth
64 m
Tonight
7°CCloudy · Wind 8 km/h SE

Mälaren is a lake at 0 m above sea level in Stockholm County, Sweden, 1,058 km² in area and 118.7 km long.

All facts
Length
118.7 km
Shoreline
2,727.5 km
Open the 3D view
3D map

Mälaren 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

Mälaren 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

Mälaren 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

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

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Lake

Mälaren in numbers

Shoreline from OpenStreetMap, surface from the 30 m terrain model.

Surface elevation
0 m0 ft
Shoreline
2,727.5 km
Weather

Mälaren weather

Tonight · Cloudy · 7°C (45°F) · Wind 8 km/h SE

Mälaren forecast for about 0 m.

  • Tonight7°–8 km/h SE
  • Today7°12°–30 km/h S
  • Sun8°10°5.6 mm36 km/h SE
  • Mon8°11°–27 km/h S
  • Tue7°10°–27 km/h S
  • Wed8°13°–27 km/h SW
  • Thu6°11°–14 km/h SW
  • Fri4°9°–13 km/h N
  • Sat7°9°–12 km/h SW
  • Sun6°8°–12 km/h NE
  • Mon6°8°–12 km/h NE

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, 00:30 UTC.

Camping & parking

Camping & parking near Mälaren

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

All mapped places 3
PlaceDistance
Parking3.5 km ENE
Parking4.1 km SE
Parking4.8 km ENE
Slope

Slope

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

Mostly gentle: 96% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°
95.9%
Moderate, 15–30°
4.1%
Steep, 30–45°
0.0%
Cliffs, 45° and over
0.0%
Steeper than 30°
0.0% of the 400 km² view
Relief in view
64 m low point -1 m
Land cover

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Trees 32.9%Water 31.4%Cropland 24.4%Grassland 9.6%Wetland 1.4%

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 10 km; 188 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6
  • Common yarrow5
  • Creeping thistle5
  • Peach-leaved Bellflower5
  • Orchard grass4
  • Common selfheal4
  • Blackthorn4
Where it sits

Where Mälaren sits

Region
Sweden23Europe2,143
Nearby

Nearby places

More 1
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 2025 (scene 2025-08-18)
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)
Wildlife
iNaturalist community observations, counts only
Forecast
Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)
Sources
Wikidata · GeoNames · Wikipedia