Reservoir · Portugal
Aguieira Reservoir
Reservoir in Portugal
- Area
- 11.3km²
- Average depth
- 40m
- Elevation
- 125m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 107km
- Volume
- 0.450km³
Aguieira Reservoir is a reservoir in Portugal. It covers 11.3 km². On average it is 40 m deep. Its surface lies 125 m above sea level.
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The water
Water temperature
There is no reliable satellite record of the water temperature for this lake yet.
On the shore, afternoons reach 31 °C on average in August and 12 °C in January. The driest month is July (12 mm of rain), the wettest October (139 mm).
From above
The whole lake from space
Month by month
The year at the lake, month by month
Not a forecast: these are averages over many years. Water is the 2013–2021 average; air, rain, sun and wind are the 1991–2020 average.
Climate: 1991–2020 average
| Month | Water°C | Water high°C | Air high°C | Air low°C | Rainmm | Rainy daysdays | Sunh/day | Windkm/h |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | — | — | 12 | 3 | 137 | 13 | 4.3 | 7 |
| February | — | — | 13 | 3 | 101 | 10 | 5.9 | 7 |
| March | — | — | 16 | 5 | 113 | 10 | 6.6 | 8 |
| April | — | — | 18 | 7 | 98 | 12 | 8.1 | 7 |
| May | — | — | 22 | 9 | 61 | 10 | 9.8 | 7 |
| June | — | — | 27 | 12 | 31 | 5 | 10.5 | 7 |
| July | — | — | 31 | 14 | 12 | 2 | 11.3 | 7 |
| August | — | — | 31 | 14 | 20 | 3 | 10.7 | 7 |
| September | — | — | 28 | 13 | 47 | 7 | 8.8 | 6 |
| October | — | — | 22 | 10 | 139 | 12 | 6.2 | 7 |
| November | — | — | 15 | 6 | 138 | 13 | 4.7 | 7 |
| December | — | — | 12 | 4 | 122 | 12 | 4.4 | 7 |
Water: LakeTEMP (Landsat 8, 2013–2021). Air, rain, sun and wind: NASA POWER, 1991–2020 averages. A rainy day has at least 1 mm of rain. Sunshine hours are derived from measured solar radiation.
Size & depth
How big, how deep
- On average, water stays in the lake for about 3 months before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 3,055 km² of land.
- About 55 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
- Its shoreline is 9.0 times longer than a circle of the same area: plenty of bays and inlets.
Around the shore
What's around Aguieira Reservoir
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 2beaches and swimming spots
Praia Fluvial da Nossa Senhora da Ribeira de Parada
- —campsites
- 1boat hire and water-sport clubs
- 3marinas and slipways
- —ferry piers
- 4viewpoints
Miradouro Pedra da Sé, Miradouro da Pedra Gorda, Trainspotting - Coval, Miradouro do Penedo c'Abana
- 3hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Montebelo Aguieira Lake Resort & Spa, Hotel Monte Rio Aguieira, Encontro no Rio
- —fishing spots
- 4restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Tábua12,071 people
- Santa Comba Dão11,597 people
- São João de Areias1,939 people
- Travanca1,079 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Aerodromo Goncalves Lobato (Viseu Airport) (VSE), 50 km in a straight line.
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Recent years
How each month compared
Afternoon high on the shore. The first row is the reference, the 1991–2020 average in °C; the years below show the difference from it: warmer in orange, cooler in blue.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991–2020 average | 11.6 | 12.8 | 15.5 | 18.1 | 22.1 | 27.2 | 31.1 | 31.4 | 28.1 | 21.6 | 14.8 | 12.1 |
| 2020 | +0.4 | +3.1 | +0.8 | −1.2 | +2.0 | −3.0 | +4.0 | −1.2 | +0.2 | −2.2 | +1.2 | −0.5 |
| 2021 | −0.9 | +0.6 | +0.8 | +1.0 | −1.5 | −1.6 | −1.2 | +0.2 | −2.0 | +1.8 | +0.6 | +2.2 |
| 2022 | +1.5 | +3.2 | ±0.0 | ±0.0 | +5.2 | +0.6 | +4.7 | +2.4 | −1.9 | +1.9 | +0.9 | +1.8 |
| 2023 | +0.1 | +0.5 | +1.0 | +3.2 | +1.2 | +1.6 | −0.2 | +1.8 | −1.0 | +2.3 | +1.5 | +0.4 |
| 2024 | +2.1 | +2.6 | −0.1 | +2.0 | −0.9 | −0.8 | +1.9 | +2.5 | −0.7 | −1.1 | +2.8 | +1.2 |
| 2025 | +1.4 | +1.4 | −0.5 | +0.5 | +0.2 | +3.0 | +2.4 | +2.9 | −0.7 | +3.0 | ±0.0 | −0.2 |
+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual
Nearby
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SpainAbout these numbers
| Outline, area, depth, volume | HydroLAKES v1.0 (Messager et al. 2016) · CC BY 4.0 |
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| Water temperature and ice | LakeTEMP v1 (Korver et al. 2024), Landsat 8 2013–2021 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Air, rain, sun, wind | NASA POWER, 1991–2020 · public domain |
| Names and description | Wikidata (Q122182785) · CC0 |
| Around the shore | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
Every figure is an average or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
