Lake · Qinghai

Qarhan Playa

2,678 m8,786 ft

Area: 226 km²
Tonight: 4°CPartly cloudy · Wind 36 km/h W

Qarhan Playa is a lake at 2,678 m above sea level in Qinghai, People's Republic of China, 226 km² in area and 44.6 km long.

All facts

Surface elevation: 2,678 m
Length: 44.6 km
Shoreline: 111.8 km

Open the 3D view

Lake

Qarhan Playa in numbers

Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.

Shoreline: 111.8 km

3D map

Qarhan Playa 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Qarhan Playa terrain and contours

2 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 10 mShowing west → east through the centre

Qarhan Playa elevation profile

West → east through the centre

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Weather

Qarhan Playa weather

Today · Partly cloudy · 4 / 13°C (39 / 55°F) · Wind 36 km/h W

Qarhan Playa forecast for about 2,678 m.

Today4°13°–36 km/h W
Sun3°10°–33 km/h W
Mon3°10°–20 km/h W
Tue2°12°–21 km/h W
Wed2°10°–19 km/h W
Thu2°11°–15 km/h N
Fri4°12°–8 km/h SE
Sat4°11°–29 km/h SW
Sun1°6°0.2 mm23 km/h W
Mon1°7°–12 km/h NW

Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 24, 01:17 UTC.

Slope

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

Mostly gentle: 100% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°

100.0%

Moderate, 15–30°

0.0%

Steep, 30–45°

0.0%

Cliffs, 45° and over

0.0%

Steeper than 30°: 0.0% of the 400 km² view
Relief in view: 32 m low point 2,677 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Water 54.7%Bare rock / sparse 45.3%

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

Where it sits

Where Qarhan Playa sits

Nearby

Nearby places

Kunlun Pass4,772 m184 km SSW

Downloads

Qarhan Playa downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM

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Print & wall

JPGQarhan Playa satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-08-18.

3D printing & 3D apps

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 2026-08-18)
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