Xuanwu Lake
- Area
- 3.48 km²
- Tonight
- 16°CFair · Wind 17 km/h NE
Xuanwu Lake is a lake at 9 m above sea level in People's Republic of China, 3.48 km² in area and 3.6 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 9 m
- Length
- 3.6 km
- Shoreline
- 19.5 km
Xuanwu Lake in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 19.5 km≈4¾ h to walk around
Xuanwu Lake 3D map
Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 5.6 × 5.6 km
Xuanwu 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.
Xuanwu Lake elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Xuanwu Lake weather
Today · Cloudy · 16 / 21°C (61 / 70°F) · Wind 17 km/h NE
Xuanwu Lake forecast for about 9 m.
- Today16°21°–17 km/h NE
- Sun14°23°–20 km/h N
- Mon14°23°–15 km/h N
- Tue14°21°–12 km/h NE
- Wed14°20°6.3 mm9 km/h SE
- Thu15°22°–8 km/h W
- Fri16°23°–5 km/h S
- Sat17°23°15.0 mm17 km/h E
- Sun14°17°10.4 mm26 km/h NE
- Mon11°15°–18 km/h NE
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.
Camping & parking near Xuanwu Lake
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Xuanwu Lake, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
0.7 km NE
Nearest hut
琵琶湖
Slope
Share of the 5.6 × 5.6 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 96% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 0.0% of the 31 km² view
- Relief in view
- 234 m low point 2 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.
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 2.8 km; 1,408 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Chinese Blackbird151
- Oriental Turtle-Dove113
- Azure-winged Magpie110
- Oriental Magpie-Robin107
- Light-vented Bulbul104
- Masked Laughingthrush97
Where Xuanwu Lake sits
Nearby places
Mochou Lake↑5.3 km SW
Slender West Lake↑70 km ENE
Lake Tai3 m↑163 km SE
Yangcheng Lake↑169 km SE
Mount JiuhuaPeak · 1,342 m↑202 km SSW
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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 2025 (scene 2025-08-18)
- 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)
- 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)