
Rainy Lake
- Area
- 882 km²
- Max depth
- 50 m
Rainy Lake is a lake at 335 m above sea level in Minnesota, United States, 882 km² in area and 87.6 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 335 m
- Length
- 87.6 km
- Shoreline
- 2,483.0 km
Rainy Lake 3D map
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Rainy 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.
Rainy Lake elevation profile
West → east through the centre
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Rainy Lake in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 2,483.0 km
Rainy Lake weather
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Forecast data: NOAA National Weather Service, public domain.
Slope
Share of the 20 × 20 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 96% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 0.1% of the 400 km² view
- Relief in view
- 92 m low point 335 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 Rainy Lake sits
- Region
- Minnesota23United States932Canada331North America1,313
Nearby places
Steep Rock Lake389 m↑108 km E
Lake Vermilion420 m↑114 km SSE
Red Lake358 m↑157 km WSW
Lake Winnibigoshish↑162 km SSW
Cass Lake↑179 km SW
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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 2026-09-22)
- Land cover
- © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
- Facts
- Wikidata (CC0)
- Geometry
- © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
- Forecast
- Weather forecast from NOAA National Weather Service (public domain)