Drying of Lake Urmia due to less water entry and evaporation leads to a rise in salt concentration as well as the saline water density. The declining saline water level and rising of its density have the opposite effect on the saltwater intrusion dynamic. In this study, based on the groundwater and lake water level fluctuations and density variation of Lake Urmia over two decades, the saltwater interaction in one of the coastal aquifers has been studied numerically using SEAWAT. The findings of the research have been approved by comparing the model results with the recorded data collected from the observation wells in the studied aquifer. The achieved results showed that in the case of constant lake water density saltwater wedge progresses slightly by the middle of the studied period and then recedes to the lakeside while considering the increasing density of the lake over 27 years showed that the length of the saltwater wedge in the field scale surprisingly has been expanded more than 250% during the shrinking period of the lake with more than 6 m dropping of water level. Overall, considering the behavior of the saltwater intrusion around the coastal area based on our findings would be conducive to the realistic management of the saline lakes and the implementation of any restoration program for drying lakes.