Lake · West Azerbaijan Province

Urmia Lake

1,268 m4,160 ft

Area: 3,286 km²
Max depth: 15 m
Tonight: 13°CClear · Wind 10 km/h E

Urmia Lake is a lake at 1,268 m above sea level in West Azerbaijan Province, Iran, 3,286 km² in area and 127.1 km long.

All facts

Surface elevation: 1,268 m
Length: 127.1 km
Shoreline: 668.7 km

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3D map

Urmia Lake 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Urmia Lake topographic map

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.

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Urmia Lake elevation profile

West → east through the centre

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Print & wall

JPGUrmia Lake satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-08-15.

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GIS & GPS

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Lake

Urmia Lake in numbers

Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.

Shoreline: 668.7 km

Weather

Urmia Lake weather

Tonight · Clear · 13°C (55°F) · Wind 10 km/h E

Urmia Lake forecast for about 1,268 m.

Tonight13°–10 km/h E
Today12°19°–24 km/h N
Sun11°17°0.8 mm19 km/h N
Mon10°17°–11 km/h N
Tue13°18°–9 km/h N
Wed13°18°3.8 mm10 km/h SE
Thu11°14°4.4 mm18 km/h SE
Fri11°16°–24 km/h SE
Sat12°17°–17 km/h W
Sun11°15°–23 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: 97% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°

96.5%

Moderate, 15–30°

2.9%

Steep, 30–45°

0.6%

Cliffs, 45° and over

0.0%

Steeper than 30°: 0.6% of the 400 km² view
Relief in view: 601 m low point 1,267 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Water 82.1%Bare rock / sparse 9.8%Grassland 7.7%

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

Where it sits

Where Urmia Lake sits

Nearby

Nearby places

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Lake Van1,640 m253 km WNW

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 2026-08-15)
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