Reservoir · Ukraine
Dnieper Reservoir
Water reservoir on the Dnieper River in Ukraine
- Area
- 132km²
- Max depth
- 53m
- Average depth
- 25m
- Elevation
- 47m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 258km
- Volume
- 3.3km³
Dnieper Reservoir is a reservoir in Ukraine. It covers 132 km². On average it is 25 m deep, and 53 m at its deepest point. Its surface lies 47 m above sea level.
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The water
How warm is Dnieper Reservoir?
The water is warmest in July, around 25 °C at the surface, and coldest in February, 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 51 days a year, from around 8 January to 27 February.
On the shore, afternoons reach 30 °C on average in July and -1 °C in January. The driest month is April (36 mm of rain), the wettest June (59 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (143 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 | — | -1 | -8 | 50 | 9 | 1.5 | 17 |
| February | Ice | — | 1 | -7 | 38 | 7 | 3.3 | 18 |
| March | 2 | 5 | 8 | -2 | 42 | 9 | 4.9 | 18 |
| April | 9 | 13 | 16 | 4 | 36 | 8 | 7.1 | 16 |
| May | 17 | 20 | 23 | 11 | 53 | 10 | 8.9 | 14 |
| June | 23 | 25 | 27 | 16 | 59 | 11 | 9.7 | 14 |
| July | 25 | 26 | 30 | 18 | 46 | 8 | 9.8 | 14 |
| August | 25 | 25 | 30 | 17 | 38 | 6 | 9.4 | 14 |
| September | 21 | 23 | 23 | 12 | 42 | 6 | 6.9 | 15 |
| October | 15 | 19 | 15 | 4 | 37 | 6 | 4.3 | 16 |
| November | 9 | 12 | 7 | -1 | 41 | 8 | 1.5 | 16 |
| December | 3 | 5 | 1 | -5 | 44 | 9 | 0.7 | 17 |
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 24 days before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 469,069 km² of land.
- About 1,607 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
- Its shoreline is 6.3 times longer than a circle of the same area: plenty of bays and inlets.
Around the shore
What's around Dnieper Reservoir
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 15beaches and swimming spots
- 1campsites
- —boat hire and water-sport clubs
- 1marinas and slipways
- 2ferry piers
River Station
- 8viewpoints
View on Dnipro Hydroelectric Power Plant and 7 more
- 6hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Marco Polo Club and 5 more
- —fishing spots
- 48restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Zaporizhzhya710,052 people
- Voloske1,362 people
- Mykhailivka
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 | -1.3 | 0.7 | 7.7 | 15.7 | 22.7 | 27.0 | 30.2 | 30.1 | 23.2 | 14.8 | 6.7 | 0.9 |
| 2020 | +3.3 | +3.4 | +4.3 | −0.4 | −2.9 | +1.2 | +1.1 | −0.3 | +3.2 | +4.2 | −0.4 | +0.4 |
| 2021 | +2.6 | −0.2 | −1.4 | −1.8 | −1.2 | −2.0 | +0.7 | +0.3 | −2.3 | −0.7 | +1.9 | +1.6 |
| 2022 | +1.4 | +4.3 | −1.8 | −0.1 | −1.8 | +2.1 | −0.3 | +2.6 | −1.9 | +0.8 | +1.5 | +2.0 |
| 2023 | +2.9 | +1.2 | +2.1 | −1.1 | −2.0 | −0.7 | −0.2 | +1.8 | +2.6 | +2.1 | +1.9 | +1.8 |
| 2024 | +1.9 | +4.5 | +1.4 | +4.7 | −1.5 | +2.6 | +3.7 | +1.4 | +3.8 | +2.1 | −0.4 | +1.3 |
| 2025 | +5.0 | −1.3 | +4.7 | +1.9 | −0.9 | +0.1 | +2.9 | −0.3 | +0.4 | −0.2 | +4.0 | +0.8 |
+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual
Nearby
More lakes nearby
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| 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 (Q2381584) · 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.
