Reservoir · North Macedonia
Debar Lake
Reservoir in Macedonia
- Area
- 10.1km²
- Average depth
- 51m
- Elevation
- 570m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 40km
- Volume
- 0.520km³
Debar Lake is a reservoir in North Macedonia. It covers 10.1 km². On average it is 51 m deep. Its surface lies 570 m above sea level.
Plan your visit
Stay, sail and get there
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The water
How warm is Debar Lake?
The water is warmest in July, around 24 °C at the surface, and coldest in January, around 5 °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 27 °C on average in August and 2 °C in January. The driest month is August (32 mm of rain), the wettest November (89 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (173 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 | 5 | 6 | 2 | -6 | 74 | 11 | 3.5 | 10 |
| February | 6 | 7 | 3 | -5 | 66 | 11 | 4.2 | 12 |
| March | 9 | 11 | 7 | -2 | 65 | 11 | 4.8 | 11 |
| April | 13 | 15 | 12 | 2 | 63 | 13 | 6.0 | 10 |
| May | 18 | 20 | 17 | 7 | 65 | 12 | 7.5 | 9 |
| June | 22 | 24 | 22 | 11 | 47 | 10 | 9.6 | 8 |
| July | 24 | 25 | 26 | 14 | 33 | 8 | 10.7 | 8 |
| August | 24 | 25 | 27 | 14 | 32 | 7 | 9.8 | 8 |
| September | 22 | 23 | 21 | 9 | 68 | 9 | 7.1 | 8 |
| October | 17 | 20 | 15 | 5 | 82 | 10 | 5.8 | 9 |
| November | 12 | 14 | 9 | 1 | 89 | 12 | 4.1 | 9 |
| December | 7 | 9 | 3 | -4 | 85 | 12 | 3.2 | 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 4 months before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 2,836 km² of land.
- About 55 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
- Its shoreline is 3.6 times longer than a circle of the same area: plenty of bays and inlets.
Around the shore
What's around Debar Lake
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- —beaches and swimming spots
- —campsites
- —boat hire and water-sport clubs
- —marinas and slipways
- —ferry piers
- —viewpoints
- 2hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Hotel Kosovrasti, Leon
- —fishing spots
- 4restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Centar Župa45,412 people
- Debar18,074 people
- Trebisht-Muçinë
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Ohrid St. Paul the Apostle Airport (OHD), 40 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 | 1.5 | 2.9 | 7.2 | 11.9 | 16.7 | 21.7 | 26.2 | 26.8 | 20.6 | 15.0 | 8.9 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | +1.5 | +2.5 | +1.0 | −0.3 | +0.3 | −1.4 | +0.7 | +0.1 | +2.5 | +0.3 | +0.8 | +3.0 |
| 2021 | +0.7 | +2.5 | −1.9 | −1.9 | +0.4 | +1.0 | +2.4 | +2.0 | +0.9 | −2.9 | +1.2 | −0.5 |
| 2022 | −0.1 | +1.0 | −3.1 | ±0.0 | +2.7 | +2.4 | +1.7 | −0.4 | +0.2 | +2.1 | +1.5 | +4.5 |
| 2023 | +2.7 | +1.3 | +1.2 | −2.0 | −1.2 | −1.3 | +1.2 | +0.5 | +3.5 | +4.2 | +0.7 | +2.8 |
| 2024 | +1.7 | +4.2 | +2.1 | +3.0 | +0.4 | +4.2 | +4.2 | +3.1 | +0.1 | +2.2 | −0.2 | +0.7 |
| 2025 | +2.7 | +1.0 | +2.7 | +0.6 | −0.7 | +4.7 | +3.5 | +0.8 | +2.8 | −1.9 | +1.1 | +3.1 |
+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual
Nearby
More lakes nearby
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Albania39.3 km² · 66 km away27°maxLake SkadarAlbania381 km² · 125 km away28°maxSmall Prespa lake
Greece37.8 km² · 93 km away25°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 (Q1181386) · 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.
