Phoksundo Lake
- Area
- 4.93 km²
- Max depth
- 145 m
- Tonight
- -4°CPartly cloudy · Wind 15 km/h SW
Phoksundo Lake is a lake at 3,614 m above sea level in Mid-Western Development Region, Nepal, 4.93 km² in area and 5.0 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 3,614 m
- Length
- 5.0 km
- Shoreline
- 18.6 km
Phoksundo Lake in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 18.6 km≈4¾ h to walk around
Phoksundo Lake 3D map
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Phoksundo Lake terrain and contours
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.
Phoksundo Lake elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Phoksundo Lake weather
Today · Clear · -4 / 6°C (25 / 43°F) · Wind 15 km/h SW
Phoksundo Lake forecast for about 3,614 m.
- Today-4°6°–15 km/h SW
- Sun-3°6°–15 km/h SW
- Mon-2°8°–13 km/h SW
- Tue-2°8°–10 km/h SW
- Wed0°9°–10 km/h SW
- Thu2°10°15.6 mm8 km/h SW
- Fri3°5°64.7 mm6 km/h N
- Sat-4°5°6.4 mm7 km/h N
- Sun-6°5°–7 km/h N
- Mon-8°4°0.1 mm5 km/h N
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 Phoksundo Lake
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Phoksundo Lake, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest campsite
Shepherds Camp
All mapped places 3
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Shepherds CampCampsite | 2.3 km NW |
| Shepherds CampCampsite | 2.3 km NW |
| RingmoCampsite | 3.3 km SSW |
Slope
Share of the 7 × 7 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly steep: more than half the view is steeper than 30°, the angle of most avalanche terrain.
- Steeper than 30°
- 68.6% of the 49 km² view
- Relief in view
- 1,999 m low point 3,577 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 3.5 km; 51 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Fireweed3
- Large-billed Crow2
- Eurasian Tree Sparrow2
- Allium fasciculatum2
- Black juniper2
- Rufous-vented Tit2
Where Phoksundo Lake sits
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 2026-09-29)
- 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)
- Summits
- © OpenStreetMap contributors, via Overture Maps Foundation (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)