Lake · Tibet Autonomous Region

Pelku Tso

4,579 m15,023 ft

Area: 273 km²
Tonight: -4°CFair · Wind 23 km/h SW

Pelku Tso is a lake at 4,579 m above sea level in Tibet Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China, 273 km² in area and 28.2 km long.

All facts

Surface elevation: 4,579 m
Length: 28.2 km
Shoreline: 92.3 km

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Lake

Pelku Tso in numbers

Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.

Shoreline: 92.3 km

3D map

Pelku Tso 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Pelku Tso terrain and contours

50 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 250 mShowing west → east through the centre

Pelku Tso elevation profile

West → east through the centre

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Weather

Pelku Tso weather

Today · Clear · -4 / 2°C (25 / 36°F) · Wind 23 km/h SW

Pelku Tso forecast for about 4,579 m.

Today-4°2°–23 km/h SW
Sun-3°2°–23 km/h SW
Mon-3°3°–21 km/h SW
Tue-3°3°–12 km/h SW
Wed-3°3°–9 km/h W
Thu0°1°13.2 mm3 km/h SE
Fri0°1°49.1 mm9 km/h S
Sat-2°1°1.4 mm12 km/h N
Sun-4°-2°0.6 mm5 km/h NE
Mon-7°-3°0.2 mm8 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 23, 23:19 UTC.

Slope

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

Mostly gentle: 74% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°

74.2%

Moderate, 15–30°

23.0%

Steep, 30–45°

2.7%

Cliffs, 45° and over

0.0%

Steeper than 30°: 2.7% of the 400 km² view
Relief in view: 1,070 m low point 4,579 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Water 51.4%Bare rock / sparse 30.3%Grassland 17.7%

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

Where it sits

Where Pelku Tso sits

Nearby

Nearby places

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Tsum Valley78 km WSW

Downloads

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Print & wall

JPGPelku Tso satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-10-23.

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GIS & GPS

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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 2026-10-23)
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
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)
Sources: Wikidata · GeoNames · Wikipedia