Lake · Chile
Budi Lake
Lake in southern Chile
- Area
- 55.5km²
- Average depth
- 16m
- Elevation
- 1m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 177km
- Volume
- 0.873km³
Budi Lake is a lake in Chile. It covers 55.5 km². On average it is 16 m deep. Its surface lies 1 m above sea level.
Plan your visit
Stay, sail and get there
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The water
How warm is Budi Lake?
The water is warmest in January, around 21 °C at the surface, and coldest in July, around 8 °C. The surface averages 20 °C or more from December to February: comfortable for most swimmers.
It does not normally freeze in winter.
On the shore, afternoons reach 22 °C on average in February and 11 °C in July. The driest month is January (28 mm of rain), the wettest June (186 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (151 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 | 21 | 22 | 22 | 10 | 28 | 4 | 11.8 | 11 |
| February | 21 | 22 | 22 | 10 | 30 | 4 | 10.6 | 10 |
| March | 19 | 20 | 20 | 9 | 47 | 7 | 9.1 | 10 |
| April | 16 | 18 | 17 | 7 | 74 | 11 | 6.4 | 9 |
| May | 12 | 14 | 14 | 6 | 135 | 15 | 4.2 | 10 |
| June | 10 | 11 | 12 | 5 | 186 | 18 | 3.3 | 11 |
| July | 8 | 9 | 11 | 4 | 169 | 18 | 3.8 | 11 |
| August | 10 | 11 | 12 | 5 | 147 | 17 | 4.8 | 11 |
| September | 12 | 14 | 13 | 5 | 88 | 12 | 7.0 | 10 |
| October | 15 | 17 | 15 | 6 | 84 | 11 | 8.2 | 10 |
| November | 18 | 19 | 17 | 8 | 61 | 9 | 9.8 | 10 |
| December | 20 | 21 | 19 | 9 | 45 | 8 | 11.2 | 11 |
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 2.5 years before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 457 km² of land.
- About 11 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
- Its shoreline is 6.7 times longer than a circle of the same area: plenty of bays and inlets.
Around the shore
What's around Budi Lake
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 5beaches and swimming spots
Playa La Chasquilla
- 4campsites
Camping Las Chasquillas, Camping Municipal
- —boat hire and water-sport clubs
- 10marinas and slipways
Muelle Puerto Domínguez, Embarcadero Huapi Budi, Embarcadero Huentén, Embarcadero Vallejos, Isla Nahuelhuapi and 5 more
- 12ferry piers
Embarcadero Huapi Budi, Embarcadero Puerto Domínguez, Embarcadero Puente El Roble, Embarcadero Isla Llepo 2, Embarcadero Huentén and 7 more
- 3viewpoints
Mirador Cerro Maule, Mirador Jardín del Budi
- 5hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Boca Budi, Hostería Maule, Cabañas del Budi, Hospedaje El Sol
- —fishing spots
- 5restaurants and cafés
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: La Araucanía International Airport (ZCO), 55 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 | 21.9 | 22.5 | 20.5 | 16.8 | 13.8 | 11.5 | 10.8 | 11.7 | 13.2 | 14.7 | 16.7 | 19.4 |
| 2020 | +0.7 | +0.3 | +1.0 | +1.1 | +0.9 | −0.3 | −0.2 | −0.7 | −0.2 | −0.1 | ±0.0 | −0.6 |
| 2021 | −0.7 | +0.2 | +1.0 | +1.0 | +0.6 | ±0.0 | +0.1 | ±0.0 | +0.1 | +0.4 | +1.2 | +3.3 |
| 2022 | −0.3 | +0.7 | −0.9 | −1.6 | −0.5 | −0.8 | −0.6 | −0.5 | −0.3 | +1.3 | +4.6 | +3.4 |
| 2023 | +0.7 | +1.3 | +0.1 | +1.4 | +1.2 | +1.4 | +0.9 | +0.2 | −0.4 | ±0.0 | −0.2 | +2.0 |
| 2024 | +1.8 | +1.5 | −0.6 | +0.2 | −1.6 | +0.8 | −0.4 | −0.4 | −1.3 | +1.9 | +0.8 | +1.0 |
| 2025 | +0.7 | −0.5 | −0.1 | −0.8 | −1.2 | −0.9 | +0.8 | +1.3 | +0.8 | +0.4 | +1.5 | +1.2 |
+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual
About 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 (Q3296928) · 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.
