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Tyrifjorden

63 m207 ft
Area
135 km²
Max depth
97 m
Tonight
5°CCloudy · Wind 4 km/h E

Tyrifjorden is a lake at 63 m above sea level in Buskerud, Norway, 135 km² in area and 26.9 km long.

All facts
Surface elevation
63 m
Length
26.9 km
Shoreline
182.0 km
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Lake

Tyrifjorden in numbers

Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.

26.9 km longest5 kmN ↑
Shoreline
182.0 km
3D map

Tyrifjorden 3D map

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Surface
Vertical scale
Topographic map

Tyrifjorden terrain and contours

25 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 125 mShowing west → east through the centre

Tyrifjorden elevation profile

West → east through the centre

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Weather

Tyrifjorden weather

Tonight · Cloudy · 5°C (41°F) · Wind 4 km/h E

Tyrifjorden forecast for about 63 m.

  • Tonight5°–4 km/h E
  • Today7°9°14.4 mm27 km/h SE
  • Sun7°8°29.6 mm33 km/h SE
  • Mon6°13°2.6 mm17 km/h SW
  • Tue8°11°2.4 mm30 km/h S
  • Wed7°12°–20 km/h S
  • Thu4°12°–12 km/h W
  • Fri3°7°–3 km/h SE
  • Sat3°6°–6 km/h N
  • Sun4°5°–6 km/h N
  • Mon3°5°–6 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 24, 00:30 UTC.

Camping & parking

Camping & parking near Tyrifjorden

Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Tyrifjorden, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.

  • Nearest parking

    4.4 km S

    +2 more within 5.0 km

  • Nearest campsite

    Hollerud Camping

    5.0 km NNW · +2 more within 7.3 km

All mapped places 6
PlaceDistance
Parking4.4 km S
Parking4.7 km NNE
Parking5.0 km NNW
Hollerud CampingCampsite5.0 km NNW
Utvika CampingCampsite7.2 km E
Onsakervika CampingCampsite7.3 km NNE
Slope

Slope

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

Mostly gentle: 81% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°
81.1%
Moderate, 15–30°
16.4%
Steep, 30–45°
2.0%
Cliffs, 45° and over
0.5%
Steeper than 30°
2.5% of the 400 km² view
Relief in view
653 m low point 50 m
Land cover

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Trees 53.4%Water 29.8%Cropland 8.8%Grassland 6.9%Built-up 1.1%

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; 119 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6
  • Red-berried elder4
  • Scots pine4
  • Large-leaved lupine4
  • Eurasian Red Squirrel3
  • Common toadflax3
  • Musk beetle3
Where it sits

Where Tyrifjorden sits

Region
Buskerud3Norway55Europe2,143
Nearby

Nearby places

More 1
Downloads

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

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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 2025-08-17)
Land cover
© ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts
Wikidata (CC0)
Camping & parking, Geometry
© OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
Summits
© OpenStreetMap contributors, via Overture Maps Foundation (ODbL)
Wildlife
iNaturalist community observations, counts only
Forecast
Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)
Sources
Wikidata · GeoNames · Wikipedia