Lagoon · Ivory Coast
Ébrié Lagoon
Lagoon in Côte d'Ivoire
- Area
- 514km²
- Max depth
- 20m
- Average depth
- 5.3m
- Elevation
- 1m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 826km
- Volume
- 2.7km³
Ébrié Lagoon is a lagoon in Ivory Coast. It covers 514 km². On average it is 5.3 m deep, and 20 m at its deepest point. Its surface lies 1 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 January and 27 °C in July. The driest month is January (24 mm of rain), the wettest June (236 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 | — | — | 32 | 23 | 24 | 7 | 6.3 | 9 |
| February | — | — | 32 | 24 | 61 | 14 | 5.6 | 10 |
| March | — | — | 31 | 25 | 120 | 26 | 5.9 | 10 |
| April | — | — | 30 | 25 | 146 | 28 | 6.3 | 10 |
| May | — | — | 29 | 24 | 187 | 30 | 5.6 | 10 |
| June | — | — | 28 | 23 | 236 | 28 | 3.9 | 11 |
| July | — | — | 27 | 22 | 89 | 18 | 4.1 | 12 |
| August | — | — | 28 | 22 | 47 | 14 | 3.6 | 12 |
| September | — | — | 28 | 22 | 95 | 22 | 4.0 | 11 |
| October | — | — | 29 | 23 | 163 | 28 | 5.3 | 10 |
| November | — | — | 30 | 24 | 106 | 25 | 6.5 | 8 |
| December | — | — | 30 | 24 | 48 | 15 | 6.3 | 8 |
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 83,109 km² of land.
- About 237 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
- Its shoreline is 10.3 times longer than a circle of the same area: plenty of bays and inlets.
Around the shore
What's around Ébrié Lagoon
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 23beaches and swimming spots
Plage Filet Bleu and 22 more
- 3campsites
Adresse de Gisèle, Mopoyem, Bora-Bora
- 1boat hire and water-sport clubs
Cercle de la Voile d’Abidjan
- 11marinas and slipways
Gare de Pinasse Koumassi – M’Pouto, Gare de Pinasse M’Pouto – Koumassi, Ponton BBr, Association Sportive Nautique d'Abidjan and 7 more
- 27ferry piers
Bac de Eloka, Gare Lagunaire de Treichville Sotra, Gare pinasse Koumassi - M'Badon, Gare Pinasse Koumassi marché 32 - Sans fil, Gare Lagunaire du Plateau Sotra and 22 more
- 1viewpoints
Embouchure du fleuve Comoë
- 204hotels, B&Bs and chalets
La Taverne Bassamoise, Akwaba Yopougon, Hôtel Le Tereso, Hôtel Le Wafou, Hôtel La Nouvelle Pergola and 199 more
- —fishing spots
- 975restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Abidjan6,321,017 people
- Koumassi412,282 people
- Marcory214,061 people
- Dabou138,083 people
- Grand-Bassam96,797 people
- Bingerville82,983 people
- Songon14,977 people
- Petit Badien8,987 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Félix-Houphouët-Boigny International Airport (ABJ), 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 | 31.7 | 31.6 | 30.6 | 29.9 | 28.9 | 27.8 | 27.2 | 27.7 | 28.4 | 28.9 | 29.6 | 30.5 |
| 2020 | −0.1 | +1.4 | +0.1 | +0.2 | +0.8 | +0.3 | −0.2 | +0.1 | +0.1 | −0.4 | −0.8 | −1.3 |
| 2021 | −2.1 | −1.3 | −1.1 | −0.4 | +0.4 | +0.5 | +0.2 | −0.2 | −0.6 | −0.5 | −0.8 | −0.5 |
| 2022 | −1.5 | −0.2 | +0.3 | −0.4 | −0.3 | ±0.0 | +0.1 | −1.0 | −1.0 | −0.3 | −0.7 | −0.9 |
| 2023 | −1.2 | ±0.0 | −0.3 | −0.7 | +0.2 | +0.1 | +0.4 | −0.5 | −0.4 | −0.3 | −0.4 | ±0.0 |
| 2024 | −0.1 | +0.8 | +1.0 | +1.8 | +1.4 | +1.0 | +1.1 | +1.1 | +1.6 | +0.2 | −0.2 | −0.2 |
| 2025 | −1.0 | −0.3 | ±0.0 | +0.8 | +1.0 | +0.7 | +0.7 | +0.7 | +1.3 | +1.0 | +0.7 | −0.4 |
+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual
GhanaAbout 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 (Q273288) · 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.
