Pielinen
- Area
- 871 km²
- Max depth
- 48 m
- Tonight
- 5°CPartly cloudy · Wind 21 km/h SE
Pielinen is a lake at 93 m above sea level in North Karelia, Finland, 871 km² in area and 90.6 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 93 m
- Length
- 90.6 km
- Shoreline
- 1,539.0 km
Pielinen in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 1,539.0 km
Pielinen 3D map
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Pielinen terrain and contours
10 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.
Pielinen elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Pielinen weather
Tonight · Partly cloudy · 5°C (41°F) · Wind 21 km/h SE
Pielinen forecast for about 93 m.
- Tonight5°–21 km/h SE
- Today5°7°3.4 mm23 km/h SE
- Sun7°8°0.3 mm25 km/h SE
- Mon8°9°3.0 mm35 km/h SE
- Tue8°9°–33 km/h S
- Wed8°9°2.3 mm37 km/h S
- Thu7°8°–26 km/h S
- Fri6°7°–15 km/h SW
- Sat5°6°–14 km/h W
- Sun5°6°–17 km/h SE
- Mon4°5°–15 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, 23:30 UTC.
Camping & parking near Pielinen
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Pielinen, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
6.8 km SE
All mapped places 1
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Parking | 6.8 km SE |
Slope
Share of the 20 × 20 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 98% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 0.1% of the 400 km² view
- Relief in view
- 217 m low point 90 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.
Where Pielinen sits
Nearby places
Pielinen downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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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 2026-09-14)
- 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)
- 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)