The Lothal system was located on the frontier of the Outer Rim and was several minutes away from the planet Garel via hyperspace travel. The Lothal sector as a whole was located in the “northeast” of the galaxy, on the extreme edge of the Outer Rim, directly bordering the Calamari sector (noted for containing Mon Cala).

The planet Lothal was varied world with a temperate climate. It was primarily terrestrial, and was known for its grassy plains, spine tree forests, farmland, long, low, snow-capped mountains, and gentle, shallow inland seas of freshwater. The planet also had prairie wilderness and marshes, the later of which were said to house will-o’-the-wisps. Some notable fauna included the loth-cats and the loth-wolves. By the Imperial Era, loth-wolves were widely believed to be extinct but could manifest themselves to Force-sensitive individuals. They were connected to the planet through the Force and Kanan regarded them as messengers warning them that the Empire was doing something “malevolent” to the planet.