Lake · Uzbekistan
Aydar Lake
Lake in Uzbekistan
- Area
- 2,742km²
- Average depth
- 16m
- Elevation
- 241m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 2,903km
- Volume
- 44.3km³
Aydar Lake is a lake in Uzbekistan. It covers 2,742 km². On average it is 16 m deep. Its surface lies 241 m above sea level.
Plan your visit
Stay, sail and get there
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The water
How warm is Aydar Lake?
The water is warmest in July, around 27 °C at the surface, and coldest in February, around 2 °C. The surface averages 20 °C or more from June to September: comfortable for most swimmers.
It does not normally freeze in winter.
On the shore, afternoons reach 39 °C on average in July and 6 °C in January. The driest month is August (1 mm of rain), the wettest March (37 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (113 readings). Shallow bays and beaches are often warmer.
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.
Water: 2013–2021 averageClimate: 1991–2020 average
| Month | Water°C | Water high°C | Air high°C | Air low°C | Rainmm | Rainy daysdays | Sunh/day | Windkm/h |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 2 | 4 | 6 | -4 | 23 | 6 | 3.7 | 13 |
| February | 2 | 3 | 8 | -3 | 34 | 7 | 5.1 | 14 |
| March | 5 | 8 | 17 | 3 | 37 | 8 | 6.6 | 14 |
| April | 12 | 16 | 24 | 9 | 32 | 6 | 8.6 | 13 |
| May | 20 | 23 | 32 | 16 | 18 | 4 | 10.8 | 13 |
| June | 25 | 27 | 37 | 21 | 5 | 1 | 12.4 | 15 |
| July | 27 | 27 | 39 | 23 | 2 | 0 | 12.8 | 17 |
| August | 26 | 26 | 37 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 12.1 | 15 |
| September | 22 | 24 | 30 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 10.6 | 13 |
| October | 18 | 20 | 22 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 7.9 | 12 |
| November | 12 | 15 | 13 | 1 | 24 | 6 | 5.0 | 13 |
| December | 6 | 9 | 6 | -4 | 23 | 6 | 3.6 | 14 |
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
- Its catchment drains 20,310 km² of land.
- Its shoreline is 15.6 times longer than a circle of the same area: plenty of bays and inlets.
Around the shore
What's around Aydar Lake
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 33beaches and swimming spots
swiming land, Plyaj, Sohil and 30 more
- 7campsites
- 1boat hire and water-sport clubs
Qayiq inarasi
- 22marinas and slipways
- 8ferry piers
- 1viewpoints
FISH TRAVEL
- 25hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Yurt and 24 more
- 2fishing spots
- 2restaurants and cafés
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Navoi International Airport (NVI), 136 km in a straight line.
OpenStreetMap is built by volunteers: when a number is low, it may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.
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 | 5.7 | 8.4 | 17.0 | 24.0 | 31.9 | 37.3 | 39.0 | 37.1 | 30.3 | 21.7 | 12.6 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | −0.8 | +3.8 | +1.1 | −0.1 | −0.4 | −0.4 | +0.4 | −1.3 | −2.6 | −2.6 | −4.0 | −4.2 |
| 2021 | −0.2 | +5.5 | −1.7 | +1.0 | +2.7 | +1.8 | +1.6 | +1.0 | +1.9 | −3.8 | −0.3 | +4.9 |
| 2022 | +2.9 | +3.8 | −2.7 | +4.4 | −1.1 | +1.6 | +1.2 | −0.9 | +2.0 | +0.4 | +0.7 | −2.8 |
| 2023 | −2.9 | +1.4 | +5.3 | +2.0 | −0.4 | +1.5 | +1.8 | −0.7 | −1.3 | +1.3 | +6.0 | +2.1 |
| 2024 | +2.7 | −0.9 | −1.5 | +0.9 | −2.3 | +1.4 | −0.1 | +0.7 | −1.7 | −0.6 | +2.3 | −0.9 |
| 2025 | −0.3 | +0.6 | +0.1 | +4.0 | +3.2 | +1.3 | +2.3 | +0.6 | +0.9 | +1.9 | +1.0 | +1.6 |
+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual
Kazakhstan
TajikistanAbout these numbers
| Outline, area, depth, volume | HydroLAKES v1.0 (Messager et al. 2016) · CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|
| 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 (Q280771) · 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.
