Lagoon · India
Dipor Bil
Permanent freshwater lake in India
- Area
- 2.3km²
- Average depth
- 2.3m
- Elevation
- 45m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 8.1km
- Volume
- 0.005km³
Dipor Bil is a lagoon in India. It covers 2.3 km². On average it is 2.3 m deep. Its surface lies 45 m above sea level.
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The water
Water temperature
There is no reliable satellite record of the water temperature for this lake yet.
On the shore, afternoons reach 32 °C on average in June and 21 °C in January. The driest month is January (7 mm of rain), the wettest June (374 mm).
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.
Climate: 1991–2020 average
| Month | Water°C | Water high°C | Air high°C | Air low°C | Rainmm | Rainy daysdays | Sunh/day | Windkm/h |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | — | — | 21 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 6.4 | 6 |
| February | — | — | 24 | 10 | 21 | 4 | 6.7 | 8 |
| March | — | — | 29 | 14 | 59 | 8 | 6.9 | 9 |
| April | — | — | 31 | 19 | 230 | 18 | 5.8 | 9 |
| May | — | — | 32 | 22 | 286 | 23 | 5.3 | 7 |
| June | — | — | 32 | 24 | 374 | 25 | 4.0 | 6 |
| July | — | — | 32 | 24 | 364 | 28 | 4.1 | 6 |
| August | — | — | 32 | 24 | 286 | 26 | 5.0 | 6 |
| September | — | — | 30 | 23 | 228 | 21 | 4.8 | 5 |
| October | — | — | 28 | 19 | 135 | 11 | 6.6 | 5 |
| November | — | — | 25 | 14 | 14 | 2 | 7.5 | 6 |
| December | — | — | 22 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 7.0 | 6 |
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 3 days before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 229 km² of land.
- About 19 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
Around the shore
What's around Dipor Bil
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
- 1viewpoints
Deepor Beel viewing point
- —hotels, B&Bs and chalets
- —fishing spots
- 6restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Azara8,780 people
- Dharapur8,095 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport (GAU), 7 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 | 21.1 | 24.3 | 28.8 | 31.2 | 32.0 | 32.2 | 31.8 | 31.6 | 30.4 | 28.5 | 25.2 | 22.0 |
| 2020 | −1.0 | −1.6 | −1.3 | −1.1 | −0.9 | −1.0 | −0.8 | +0.6 | +0.1 | +1.5 | +0.5 | ±0.0 |
| 2021 | +0.2 | −0.5 | −0.2 | +0.3 | −0.8 | −0.1 | +0.2 | −0.6 | +0.9 | +1.1 | −0.5 | +0.4 |
| 2022 | −0.3 | −2.9 | +0.7 | −0.4 | −0.8 | −1.4 | +0.2 | +0.8 | +0.5 | −0.2 | +0.9 | +0.6 |
| 2023 | +0.6 | +0.5 | −1.0 | +0.5 | +0.7 | +1.4 | +1.1 | +0.6 | +1.7 | +0.4 | +0.7 | +1.2 |
| 2024 | −0.2 | −1.2 | −0.7 | +1.8 | +1.1 | +0.5 | +1.2 | ±0.0 | +1.8 | +0.1 | +0.2 | −0.6 |
| 2025 | +0.2 | −0.9 | −0.5 | −0.2 | −1.2 | +0.6 | +0.8 | −0.6 | +0.9 | +1.0 | +0.3 | +0.3 |
+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual
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BangladeshAbout 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 (Q986842) · 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.
