Lake · British Columbia

Williston Lake

668 m2,192 ft

Area: 1,713 km²
Max depth: 166 m
Tonight: 1°CClear · Wind 10 km/h W

Williston Lake is a lake at 668 m above sea level in British Columbia, Canada, 1,713 km² in area and 223.2 km long.

All facts

Surface elevation: 668 m
Length: 223.2 km
Shoreline: 1,584.1 km

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3D map

Williston Lake 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Williston Lake topographic map

50 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 250 mShowing west → east through the centre

Williston Lake elevation profile

West → east through the centre

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Downloads

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Print & wall

JPGWilliston Lake satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-07-16.

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GIS & GPS

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Lake

Williston Lake in numbers

Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.

Shoreline: 1,584.1 km

Weather

Williston Lake weather

Today · Clear · 1 / 3°C (34 / 37°F) · Wind 10 km/h W

Williston Lake forecast for about 668 m.

Today1°3°–10 km/h W
Sat1°4°–13 km/h NW
Sun0°4°–13 km/h N
Mon0°3°–4 km/h W
Tue1°3°2.1 mm13 km/h N
Wed-1°2°–17 km/h N
Thu-2°0°–5 km/h N
Fri-2°0°0.1 mm9 km/h S
Sat-1°3°4.5 mm11 km/h SE
Sun4°5°4.7 mm22 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 24, 01:17 UTC.

Slope

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

Mostly gentle: 92% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°

91.9%

Moderate, 15–30°

7.2%

Steep, 30–45°

0.8%

Cliffs, 45° and over

0.0%

Steeper than 30°: 0.8% of the 400 km² view
Relief in view: 1,035 m low point 667 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Water 58.8%Trees 35.4%Grassland 4.8%Moss & lichen 0.8%

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

Where it sits

Where Williston Lake sits

Nearby

Nearby places

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 2026-07-16)
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: Official website · Wikidata · GeoNames · Wikipedia