Pangong Tso
- Area
- 655 km²
- Max depth
- 328 m
- Tonight
- -3°CPartly cloudy · Wind 6 km/h W
Pangong Tso is a lake at 4,244 m above sea level in Tibet Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China, 655 km² in area and 147.6 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 4,244 m
- Length
- 147.6 km
- Shoreline
- 601.0 km
Pangong Tso 3D map
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Pangong Tso topographic map
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.
Pangong Tso elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Pangong Tso downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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Pangong Tso in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 601.0 km
Pangong Tso weather
Tonight · Partly cloudy · -3°C (27°F) · Wind 6 km/h W
Pangong Tso forecast for about 4,244 m.
- Tonight-3°–6 km/h W
- Today-5°0°5.1 mm13 km/h N
- Sun-5°-2°1.6 mm10 km/h N
- Mon-4°-1°0.1 mm12 km/h N
- Tue-3°-1°0.1 mm8 km/h N
- Wed-3°2°–9 km/h NE
- Thu-1°3°–12 km/h NE
- Fri-1°4°–17 km/h SW
- Sat-1°4°–17 km/h SW
- Sun-1°3°–9 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 23, 23:19 UTC.
Camping & parking near Pangong Tso
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Pangong Tso, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest campsite
6.1 km E
Slope
Share of the 20 × 20 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mixed terrain: gentle slopes, steep faces and everything between.
- Steeper than 30°
- 26.2% of the 400 km² view
- Relief in view
- 1,773 m low point 4,242 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; 20 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Brown-headed Gull7
- Horned Lark6
- Hill Pigeon4
- Ruddy Shelduck4
- Himalayan Marmot4
- Great Crested Grebe3
Where Pangong Tso sits
- Region
- India313Tibet Autonomous Region19China121Asia964
Nearby places
Data sources
- Terrain
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- Imagery
- Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (scene 2026-09-10)
- 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)