Reservoir · South Korea
Cheongpyeong Lake
Lake in Gapyeong-gun, Gyeonngi-do, South Korea
- Area
- 10.9km²
- Average depth
- 17m
- Elevation
- 53m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 67km
- Volume
- 0.185km³
Cheongpyeong Lake is a reservoir in South Korea. It covers 10.9 km². On average it is 17 m deep. Its surface lies 53 m above sea level.
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The water
How warm is Cheongpyeong Lake?
The water is warmest in July, around 26 °C at the surface, and coldest in January, around 0 °C. The surface averages 20 °C or more from June to September: comfortable for most swimmers.
The lake usually freezes over for about 36 days a year, from around 3 January to 7 February.
On the shore, afternoons reach 28 °C on average in August and 0 °C in January. The driest month is January (20 mm of rain), the wettest July (369 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (160 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 | -11 | 20 | 5 | 5.3 | 12 |
| February | 1 | 3 | 3 | -8 | 31 | 5 | 5.7 | 12 |
| March | 6 | 10 | 9 | -3 | 39 | 7 | 6.3 | 13 |
| April | 13 | 16 | 16 | 3 | 76 | 8 | 6.4 | 13 |
| May | 19 | 22 | 22 | 9 | 81 | 8 | 6.9 | 12 |
| June | 24 | 26 | 26 | 15 | 124 | 11 | 5.7 | 10 |
| July | 26 | 26 | 28 | 20 | 369 | 19 | 2.9 | 11 |
| August | 26 | 26 | 28 | 20 | 269 | 18 | 4.3 | 10 |
| September | 23 | 25 | 24 | 14 | 141 | 10 | 5.2 | 10 |
| October | 18 | 21 | 18 | 6 | 57 | 6 | 6.1 | 10 |
| November | 10 | 14 | 9 | -1 | 46 | 8 | 4.8 | 11 |
| December | 3 | 6 | 1 | -8 | 22 | 5 | 5.0 | 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 11 days before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 10,028 km² of land.
- About 190 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
- Its shoreline is 5.7 times longer than a circle of the same area: plenty of bays and inlets.
Around the shore
What's around Cheongpyeong Lake
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- —beaches and swimming spots
- 8campsites
Jaraseom Camping Site, Olden, YCAMP and 5 more
- 1boat hire and water-sport clubs
Boat
- 1marinas and slipways
- 3ferry piers
Nami Island Pier, Fun boats, Ferry to Nami Island
- 2viewpoints
Changgyeongdae Platform
- 49hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Katamarin Resort Hotel, Gihwa Youth Hostel, Dolgorae Susang Resort Hotel, Songgang Resort Hotel, Fine Hotel and 44 more
- —fishing spots
- 161restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Gapyeong55,415 people
- Cheongpyeong
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Wonju Airport / Hoengseong Air Base (K-38/K-46) (WJU), 52 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 | -0.5 | 3.0 | 8.9 | 16.1 | 22.3 | 26.3 | 27.9 | 28.3 | 23.9 | 17.8 | 9.4 | 1.2 |
| 2020 | +4.4 | +1.9 | +2.9 | −0.9 | +0.5 | +1.7 | −1.3 | +0.2 | −1.0 | −0.9 | +1.1 | ±0.0 |
| 2021 | +0.7 | +2.2 | +3.0 | +1.0 | −1.4 | −0.5 | +2.1 | −0.8 | +0.7 | +0.8 | +1.4 | +1.7 |
| 2022 | +1.0 | −1.2 | +1.9 | +1.7 | −0.2 | −0.4 | +1.6 | −0.9 | +0.4 | −1.1 | +3.0 | −2.4 |
| 2023 | +1.1 | +1.7 | +4.2 | +1.3 | +0.7 | ±0.0 | +1.0 | +1.0 | +1.8 | +0.6 | −0.4 | +1.5 |
| 2024 | +2.0 | +2.7 | +0.7 | +3.0 | −0.3 | +1.2 | +0.8 | +2.7 | +3.4 | +1.6 | +2.8 | +0.8 |
| 2025 | +1.3 | −2.1 | +1.1 | +0.7 | −1.6 | +0.5 | +2.8 | +1.7 | +1.9 | +1.2 | +1.4 | +1.4 |
+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual
North Korea
ChinaAbout 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 (Q12619305) · 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.
