Reservoir · Ukraine
Dniester Reservoir
Reservoir in Ukraine
- Area
- 75.1km²
- Average depth
- 40m
- Elevation
- 115m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 253km
- Volume
- 3.0km³
Dniester Reservoir is a reservoir in Ukraine. It covers 75.1 km². On average it is 40 m deep. Its surface lies 115 m above sea level.
Plan your visit
Stay, sail and get there
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The water
How warm is Dniester Reservoir?
The water is warmest in July, around 26 °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.
It does not normally freeze in winter.
On the shore, afternoons reach 27 °C on average in August and -1 °C in January. The driest month is January (32 mm of rain), the wettest June (89 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (69 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 | 1 | 2 | -1 | -8 | 32 | 8 | 1.9 | 16 |
| February | 0 | 1 | 1 | -7 | 36 | 8 | 3.2 | 16 |
| March | 3 | 5 | 8 | -2 | 41 | 9 | 4.9 | 17 |
| April | 9 | 12 | 15 | 4 | 47 | 10 | 6.8 | 15 |
| May | 16 | 20 | 22 | 10 | 67 | 12 | 8.1 | 14 |
| June | 23 | 25 | 25 | 14 | 89 | 14 | 8.6 | 13 |
| July | 26 | 26 | 27 | 16 | 86 | 13 | 8.7 | 12 |
| August | 25 | 26 | 27 | 15 | 58 | 9 | 8.4 | 12 |
| September | 21 | 23 | 22 | 10 | 46 | 9 | 6.2 | 13 |
| October | 16 | 19 | 14 | 4 | 48 | 8 | 4.1 | 14 |
| November | 10 | 13 | 7 | -1 | 38 | 8 | 1.4 | 15 |
| December | 5 | 7 | 1 | -6 | 34 | 8 | 1.2 | 16 |
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 40,564 km² of land.
- About 254 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
- Its shoreline is 8.2 times longer than a circle of the same area: plenty of bays and inlets.
Around the shore
What's around Dniester Reservoir
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 18beaches and swimming spots
- 9campsites
Tourist camp and 8 more
- 1boat hire and water-sport clubs
- 76marinas and slipways
- 2ferry piers
- 17viewpoints
- 16hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Baza Vidpochynku 'tiras' and 15 more
- —fishing spots
- 3restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Novodnistrovsk10,590 people
- Lomachyntsi2,217 people
- Mikhalkove2,139 people
- Stara Ushytsya2,097 people
- Komariv1,804 people
- Vitrianka1,542 people
- Kulishivka1,080 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Suceava Ștefan cel Mare International Airport (SCV), 112 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 | -1.2 | 1.0 | 8.0 | 15.4 | 21.5 | 24.9 | 27.1 | 27.1 | 21.6 | 14.0 | 6.6 | 0.6 |
| 2020 | +3.8 | +4.7 | +2.8 | +0.8 | −3.2 | +0.4 | −0.6 | +1.9 | +3.2 | +2.7 | ±0.0 | +0.8 |
| 2021 | +2.0 | −0.7 | −1.8 | −3.4 | −2.6 | −0.6 | +1.2 | −1.0 | −2.3 | −0.7 | +1.8 | −0.1 |
| 2022 | +2.4 | +4.4 | −0.8 | −1.5 | +0.1 | +2.6 | +1.1 | +1.1 | −2.9 | +2.2 | −0.6 | +0.4 |
| 2023 | +5.3 | +2.9 | +2.2 | −2.9 | −1.2 | −1.0 | ±0.0 | +2.6 | +3.7 | +4.5 | +1.6 | +2.5 |
| 2024 | +2.5 | +8.1 | +2.4 | +3.0 | +0.8 | +2.7 | +3.6 | +3.2 | +3.6 | +1.3 | −1.1 | +1.9 |
| 2025 | +5.5 | ±0.0 | +4.4 | +1.1 | −4.2 | +0.5 | +0.9 | +0.7 | +0.9 | −1.7 | +2.2 | +2.5 |
+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual
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 (Q12101431) · 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.
