Lake · Germany
Chiemsee
Freshwater lake in Bavaria, Germany
- Area
- 75.0km²
- Max depth
- 72m
- Average depth
- 7.7m
- Elevation
- 515m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 70km
- Volume
- 0.576km³
Chiemsee is a lake in Germany. It covers 75.0 km². On average it is 7.7 m deep, and 72 m at its deepest point. Its surface lies 515 m above sea level.
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The water
How warm is Chiemsee?
The water is warmest in July, around 22 °C at the surface, and coldest in February, around 3 °C. The surface averages 20 °C or more from July to August: comfortable for most swimmers.
It does not normally freeze in winter.
On the shore, afternoons reach 23 °C on average in July and 2 °C in January. The driest month is November (64 mm of rain), the wettest June (150 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (124 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 | 3 | 4 | 2 | -5 | 82 | 13 | 2.0 | 12 |
| February | 3 | 3 | 3 | -4 | 65 | 12 | 3.8 | 12 |
| March | 5 | 6 | 8 | -1 | 77 | 15 | 5.0 | 12 |
| April | 9 | 11 | 14 | 3 | 70 | 13 | 6.6 | 10 |
| May | 14 | 17 | 18 | 8 | 129 | 18 | 6.6 | 10 |
| June | 20 | 22 | 22 | 12 | 150 | 19 | 7.5 | 9 |
| July | 22 | 22 | 23 | 14 | 141 | 19 | 7.6 | 9 |
| August | 22 | 22 | 23 | 13 | 147 | 17 | 6.9 | 8 |
| September | 18 | 20 | 18 | 9 | 102 | 14 | 5.3 | 9 |
| October | 14 | 16 | 14 | 4 | 83 | 13 | 3.7 | 9 |
| November | 9 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 64 | 12 | 1.7 | 10 |
| December | 5 | 7 | 3 | -3 | 71 | 14 | 1.3 | 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 5 months before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 1,440 km² of land.
- About 41 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
Around the shore
What's around Chiemsee
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 43beaches and swimming spots
Strandbad Schöllkopf, Hunde Badestrand, Beckerscheim, Schweinebucht, FKK Chiemsee and 38 more
- 11campsites
Schraml, Chiemsee Camping Rödlgries, Chiemgau Camping Lambach, Panorama Camping Harras, Campingplatz Kupferschmiede and 6 more
- 29boat hire and water-sport clubs
Chiemsee Bootsverleih, Gruenaeugel, Bootsverleih Stöffl, Bootsverleih, Bootsverleih Schraml and 24 more
- 49marinas and slipways
Yachthafen Jell, Slipanalage Yacht-Club Urfahrn, Gemeindlicher Segelhafen - Chiemseepark Felden, Bootsverleih Schaber/Fischer am See, Seglerhafen Harras and 44 more
- 11ferry piers
Herreninsel, Prien/Stock, Gstadt, Fraueninsel Hauptsteg, Fraueninsel Nordsteg and 6 more
- 24viewpoints
Ludwigshöhe, Aussichtsplateau, Beobachtungsstand, Urfahrner Spitz, Aussichtsplattform Chieming and 19 more
- 54hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Landgasthof Lambach, Jugendzeltlagerplatz Kreisjugendring Traunstein, Gästehaus Unt'am See, Bernauer Stub'n, Thomafischer Irmingard Wallner and 49 more
- 3fishing spots
- 88restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Prien am Chiemsee10,915 people
- Bernau am Chiemsee6,645 people
- Übersee4,896 people
- Chieming4,503 people
- Grabenstätt4,152 people
- Rimsting3,476 people
- Gstadt am Chiemsee1,355 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Salzburg Airport (SZG), 42 km in a straight line.
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Photos
Seen by visitors
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 | 1.6 | 3.1 | 8.1 | 13.8 | 17.8 | 21.5 | 23.2 | 22.7 | 18.1 | 13.6 | 7.4 | 2.7 |
| 2020 | +2.6 | +4.4 | +0.5 | +2.6 | −1.3 | −1.3 | −0.2 | +0.5 | +1.0 | −0.9 | +1.1 | +0.1 |
| 2021 | −1.0 | +3.3 | −0.5 | −3.0 | −2.9 | +2.1 | −0.2 | −2.1 | +1.8 | −0.2 | −1.2 | +0.5 |
| 2022 | +1.3 | +2.6 | +1.9 | −1.8 | +1.8 | +2.4 | +1.1 | +1.0 | −1.0 | +4.2 | +1.8 | +0.8 |
| 2023 | +2.7 | +2.1 | +1.8 | −3.2 | −0.7 | +1.1 | +1.2 | +1.0 | +4.4 | +3.9 | +0.2 | +2.6 |
| 2024 | +1.6 | +6.1 | +3.8 | +1.0 | +1.0 | +0.5 | +1.1 | +2.4 | +0.5 | +2.2 | −0.3 | +0.5 |
| 2025 | +1.8 | +2.1 | +2.1 | +1.8 | −1.1 | +3.0 | −0.9 | +0.8 | +1.3 | −1.0 | −0.3 | +1.7 |
+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual
AustriaAbout 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 (Q4138) · 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.
