Lake · Tibet Autonomous Region

Yamdrok Lake

4,438 m14,560 ft

Area: 548 km²
Tonight: -1°CFair · Wind 30 km/h SW

Yamdrok Lake is a lake at 4,438 m above sea level in Tibet Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China, 548 km² in area and 71.0 km long.

All facts

Surface elevation: 4,438 m
Length: 71.0 km
Shoreline: 577.1 km

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Lake

Yamdrok Lake in numbers

Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.

Shoreline: 577.1 km

3D map

Yamdrok Lake 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Yamdrok Lake terrain and contours

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

Yamdrok Lake elevation profile

West → east through the centre

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Weather

Yamdrok Lake weather

Today · Clear · -1 / 9°C (30 / 48°F) · Wind 30 km/h SW

Yamdrok Lake forecast for about 4,438 m.

Today-1°9°–30 km/h SW
Sun-2°10°–35 km/h SW
Mon-2°9°–27 km/h SE
Tue-2°7°–17 km/h S
Wed-2°7°–15 km/h SE
Thu0°8°0.9 mm8 km/h SE
Fri1°8°0.1 mm21 km/h SE
Sat0°4°1.7 mm15 km/h S
Sun-2°6°–14 km/h S
Mon-2°6°–13 km/h S

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: 68% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°

67.6%

Moderate, 15–30°

29.1%

Steep, 30–45°

3.3%

Cliffs, 45° and over

0.0%

Steeper than 30°: 3.3% of the 400 km² view
Relief in view: 928 m low point 4,435 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Grassland 47.8%Water 41.3%Bare rock / sparse 10.8%

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; 25 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6

Bar-headed Goose4
Ruddy Shelduck4
Woolly Hare3
Black-lipped Pika3
Brown-headed Gull3
Common Hoopoe2

Where it sits

Where Yamdrok Lake sits

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

PauhunriPeak · 7,128 m219 km WSW

Downloads

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Print & wall

JPGYamdrok Lake satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-09-27.

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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 2026 (scene 2026-09-27)
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