Glacial lake · Montenegro
Black Lake
Lake in Žabljak, northern Montenegro
- Area
- 0.4km²
- Average depth
- 8.8m
- Elevation
- 1,420m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 3.6km
- Volume
- 0.003km³
Black Lake is a glacial lake in Montenegro. It covers 0.4 km². On average it is 8.8 m deep. Its surface lies 1,420 m above sea level.
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Stay, sail and get there
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The water
How warm is Black Lake?
The water is warmest in July, around 20 °C at the surface, and coldest in January, around 0 °C. It rarely averages 20 °C, but it stays above 17 °C from July to August: brisk, refreshing swimming.
The lake usually freezes over for about 88 days a year, from around 15 December to 12 March.
On the shore, afternoons reach 23 °C on average in August and 0 °C in January. The driest month is August (56 mm of rain), the wettest November (146 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (47 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 | Ice | — | 0 | -7 | 114 | 13 | 3.1 | 11 |
| February | Ice | — | 1 | -6 | 109 | 12 | 3.8 | 12 |
| March | 1 | 3 | 5 | -3 | 110 | 13 | 5.0 | 12 |
| April | 6 | 9 | 10 | 1 | 87 | 14 | 5.5 | 10 |
| May | 12 | 14 | 15 | 5 | 95 | 15 | 6.5 | 9 |
| June | 17 | 19 | 19 | 9 | 92 | 13 | 8.1 | 8 |
| July | 20 | 20 | 22 | 11 | 64 | 11 | 8.9 | 8 |
| August | 19 | 20 | 23 | 11 | 56 | 10 | 8.5 | 7 |
| September | 16 | 18 | 18 | 7 | 97 | 11 | 5.9 | 8 |
| October | 11 | 14 | 13 | 3 | 114 | 11 | 5.0 | 9 |
| November | 5 | 8 | 7 | -1 | 146 | 14 | 3.5 | 10 |
| December | Ice | — | 2 | -5 | 129 | 14 | 2.5 | 12 |
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 42 days before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 29 km² of land.
- About 0.9 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
Around the shore
What's around Black Lake
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 5beaches and swimming spots
- 5campsites
Autocamp Razvršje, Ivan Do, 8€, Kod Boće
- —boat hire and water-sport clubs
- —marinas and slipways
- —ferry piers
- 4viewpoints
View point of Crno ojero
- 7hotels, B&Bs and chalets
SOA, Jezera, Durmitor, Vista Durmitor, Mlinski potok and 2 more
- —fishing spots
- 2restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Žabljak1,937 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Tivat Airport (TIV), 88 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 | 0.0 | 1.1 | 4.9 | 10.4 | 15.3 | 19.3 | 22.2 | 23.4 | 18.0 | 13.0 | 7.2 | 1.5 |
| 2020 | +1.5 | +2.6 | +1.0 | +0.5 | −0.5 | −1.5 | −0.8 | −1.4 | +1.3 | −0.4 | +1.3 | +2.5 |
| 2021 | −0.4 | +2.9 | −2.1 | −2.2 | −0.1 | +1.4 | +2.4 | +2.0 | +1.2 | −1.7 | +1.6 | −1.0 |
| 2022 | −0.9 | +0.9 | −2.2 | −0.8 | +2.9 | +3.0 | +2.8 | +0.7 | −0.7 | +2.5 | +1.4 | +4.4 |
| 2023 | +2.6 | −0.7 | +1.8 | −2.6 | −0.4 | −0.1 | +1.8 | −0.7 | +2.7 | +3.5 | +0.4 | +2.6 |
| 2024 | +2.0 | +4.7 | +2.9 | +3.3 | +1.0 | +3.5 | +4.2 | +3.9 | +0.5 | +2.7 | −0.6 | −0.1 |
| 2025 | +2.9 | +1.9 | +3.0 | +0.4 | −1.0 | +4.0 | +3.0 | +1.2 | +2.4 | −2.6 | +0.9 | +3.0 |
+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual
Nearby
More lakes nearby
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Kosovo8.5 km² · 127 km away23°maxAbout 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 (Q1140650) · 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.
