Lake · Jiangxi

Poyang Lake

12 m39 ft

Area: 2,750 km²
Max depth: 8 m
Tonight: 17°CClear · Wind 27 km/h N

Poyang Lake is a lake at 12 m above sea level in Jiangxi, People's Republic of China, 2,750 km² in area and 150.7 km long.

All facts

Surface elevation: 12 m
Length: 150.7 km
Shoreline: 1,800.8 km

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3D map

Poyang Lake 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Poyang Lake topographic map

5 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 25 mShowing west → east through the centre

Poyang Lake elevation profile

West → east through the centre

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Downloads

Poyang Lake downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM

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Print & wall

JPGPoyang Lake satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2025-08-28.

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GIS & GPS

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Lake

Poyang Lake in numbers

Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.

Shoreline: 1,800.8 km

Weather

Poyang Lake weather

Today · Partly cloudy · 17 / 23°C (63 / 73°F) · Wind 27 km/h N

Poyang Lake forecast for about 12 m.

Today17°23°–27 km/h N
Sun19°24°–26 km/h NE
Mon18°26°–23 km/h N
Tue19°24°–30 km/h N
Wed19°23°–16 km/h NE
Thu19°23°–15 km/h N
Fri20°24°0.1 mm15 km/h N
Sat22°26°–13 km/h NE
Sun17°30°7.2 mm39 km/h N
Mon15°17°2.1 mm33 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, 23:18 UTC.

Slope

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

Mostly gentle: 99% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°

99.3%

Moderate, 15–30°

0.7%

Steep, 30–45°

0.0%

Cliffs, 45° and over

0.0%

Steeper than 30°: 0.0% of the 400 km² view
Relief in view: 78 m low point 9 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Wetland 48.6%Water 39.9%Cropland 5.3%Trees 2.9%Grassland 1.8%Built-up 1.1%

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

Where it sits

Where Poyang Lake sits

Nearby

Nearby places

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 2025 (scene 2025-08-28)
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
Forecast: Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)
Sources: Wikidata · GeoNames · Wikipedia