Obersee
- Area
- 528 km²
- Max depth
- 253 m
- Tonight
- 8°CCloudy · Wind 34 km/h SW
Obersee is a lake at 394 m above sea level in Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland, 528 km² in area and 68.9 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 394 m
- Length
- 68.9 km
- Shoreline
- 349.5 km
Obersee in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 349.5 km
Obersee 3D map
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Obersee terrain and contours
20 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.
Obersee elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Obersee weather
Tonight · Cloudy · 8°C (46°F) · 3.0 mm · Wind 34 km/h SW
Obersee forecast for about 394 m.
- Tonight8°3.0 mm34 km/h SW
- Today7°10°8.3 mm36 km/h SW
- Sun10°15°8.3 mm41 km/h W
- Mon10°12°–14 km/h W
- Tue13°16°0.2 mm6 km/h S
- Wed9°13°4.2 mm14 km/h NE
- Thu8°13°–18 km/h NE
- Fri6°10°0.1 mm10 km/h N
- Sat6°10°0.4 mm10 km/h NE
- Sun8°11°4.6 mm30 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 Obersee
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Obersee, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
Miettingerplatz
Nearest campsite
CAP Rotach
Nearest caravan site
Wohnmobilstellplatz CAP Rotach
All mapped places 7
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Parking | 4.9 km NNE |
| Parking | 4.9 km NNE |
| MiettingerplatzParking | 5.0 km NNE |
| CAP RotachCampsite | 6.1 km NE |
| Wohnmobilstellplatz CAP RotachCaravan site | 6.2 km NE |
| Campingplatz FischbachCampsite | 7.1 km NNW |
| Camping Schloss HelmsdorfCampsite | 7.8 km NW |
Slope
Share of the 20 × 20 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 97% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 0.2% of the 400 km² view
- Relief in view
- 368 m low point 392 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.
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 10 km; 2,081 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Mallard130
- Mute Swan127
- Eurasian Blackbird125
- Black-headed Gull115
- Great Crested Grebe114
- Grey Heron104
Where Obersee sits
- Region
- Canton of St. Gallen10Switzerland432Germany118Europe2,143
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 2026-07-24)
- 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
- 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)