Lake · Tibet Autonomous Region

Siling Lake

4,545 m14,911 ft

Area: 2,308 km²
Tonight: -2°CClear · Wind 41 km/h W

Siling Lake is a lake at 4,545 m above sea level in Tibet Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China, 2,308 km² in area and 79.8 km long.

All facts

Surface elevation: 4,545 m
Length: 79.8 km
Shoreline: 420.7 km

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Lake

Siling Lake in numbers

Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.

Shoreline: 420.7 km

3D map

Siling Lake 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Siling Lake 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.

Index contours every 50 mShowing west → east through the centre

Siling Lake elevation profile

West → east through the centre

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Weather

Siling Lake weather

Today · Fair · -2 / 4°C (28 / 39°F) · Wind 41 km/h W

Siling Lake forecast for about 4,545 m.

Today-2°4°–41 km/h W
Sun-2°5°–35 km/h W
Mon-2°2°–19 km/h SW
Tue-2°4°–24 km/h NW
Wed-2°2°–17 km/h W
Thu-2°4°0.1 mm23 km/h S
Fri1°1°5.7 mm21 km/h S
Sat-3°1°2.5 mm17 km/h W
Sun-4°-2°–21 km/h W
Mon-6°-2°–16 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, 23:19 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°

99.2%

Moderate, 15–30°

0.6%

Steep, 30–45°

0.1%

Cliffs, 45° and over

0.0%

Steeper than 30°: 0.1% of the 400 km² view
Relief in view: 246 m low point 4,544 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Water 73.1%Bare rock / sparse 25.4%Grassland 1.5%

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

Where it sits

Where Siling Lake sits

Downloads

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

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Print & wall

JPGSiling Lake satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2025-09-25.

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 2025 (scene 2025-09-25)
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
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)
Sources: Wikidata · GeoNames · Wikipedia