Lake · Qinghai

Qinghai Lake

3,195 m10,482 ft

Area: 4,452 km²
Max depth: 21 m
Tonight: 0°CPartly cloudy · Wind 24 km/h E

Qinghai Lake is a lake at 3,195 m above sea level in Qinghai, People's Republic of China, 4,452 km² in area and 108.7 km long.

All facts

Surface elevation: 3,195 m
Length: 108.7 km
Shoreline: 418.2 km

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3D map

Qinghai Lake 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Qinghai Lake topographic map

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.

Index contours every 50 mShowing west → east through the centre

Qinghai Lake elevation profile

West → east through the centre

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Downloads

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Print & wall

JPGQinghai Lake satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-07-23.

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GIS & GPS

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Lake

Qinghai Lake in numbers

Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.

Shoreline: 418.2 km

Weather

Qinghai Lake weather

Today · Clear · 0 / 8°C (32 / 46°F) · Wind 24 km/h E

Qinghai Lake forecast for about 3,195 m.

Today0°8°–24 km/h E
Sun0°7°–21 km/h SE
Mon-1°7°–21 km/h SW
Tue-2°6°–10 km/h E
Wed-2°10°–32 km/h W
Thu-2°7°–17 km/h SE
Fri-1°10°–14 km/h W
Sat1°7°0.1 mm9 km/h S
Sun-2°6°0.4 mm10 km/h NW
Mon-2°4°0.1 mm13 km/h SE

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: 98% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°

98.3%

Moderate, 15–30°

1.5%

Steep, 30–45°

0.2%

Cliffs, 45° and over

0.0%

Steeper than 30°: 0.2% of the 400 km² view
Relief in view: 298 m low point 3,190 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Water 72.1%Grassland 27.7%

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

Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 10 km; 69 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6

Brown-headed Gull15
Bar-headed Goose5
Horned Lark5
Przewalskii's Naked Carp5
Ruddy Shelduck4
Ground Tit4

Where it sits

Where Qinghai Lake sits

Nearby

Nearby places

Chaka Salt Lake3,059 m75 km WSW

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 2026-07-23)
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
Forecast: Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)
Sources: Official website · Wikidata · GeoNames · Wikipedia