Reservoir · Germany
Edersee
Reservoir in Hesse, Germany
- Area
- 9.1km²
- Average depth
- 22m
- Elevation
- 247m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 51km
- Volume
- 0.202km³
Edersee is a reservoir in Germany. It covers 9.1 km². On average it is 22 m deep. Its surface lies 247 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 23 °C on average in July and 2 °C in January. The driest month is April (47 mm of rain), the wettest July (82 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 | — | — | 2 | -3 | 69 | 14 | 0.9 | 20 |
| February | — | — | 3 | -3 | 52 | 12 | 2.2 | 19 |
| March | — | — | 7 | -1 | 54 | 13 | 3.9 | 18 |
| April | — | — | 13 | 3 | 47 | 11 | 5.9 | 15 |
| May | — | — | 17 | 7 | 74 | 13 | 6.3 | 14 |
| June | — | — | 20 | 10 | 70 | 13 | 6.7 | 14 |
| July | — | — | 23 | 12 | 82 | 15 | 6.5 | 14 |
| August | — | — | 23 | 12 | 74 | 13 | 5.9 | 13 |
| September | — | — | 18 | 8 | 60 | 11 | 4.8 | 14 |
| October | — | — | 12 | 4 | 59 | 13 | 3.0 | 16 |
| November | — | — | 6 | 1 | 66 | 14 | 1.0 | 17 |
| December | — | — | 2 | -2 | 72 | 16 | 0.6 | 19 |
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 5 months before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 1,422 km² of land.
- About 16 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
- Its shoreline is 4.8 times longer than a circle of the same area: plenty of bays and inlets.
Around the shore
What's around Edersee
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 7beaches and swimming spots
Rehbachstrand and 6 more
- 26campsites
Ferienzentrum Albert Schweitzer, Camping Zur Fähre, Trekkingplatz Lärenberg, DKV Campingplatz Edersee, Welten-Zelten Kellerwald and 21 more
- 15boat hire and water-sport clubs
Edersee: Tauchzone II (Sitte), Edersee: Tauchzone I (Berich), SSGE Segelsportgemeinschaft Edersee e.V., Gabi's Strandcafé, Segelschule Edersee and 10 more
- 7marinas and slipways
Slipstelle für Jollen and 6 more
- 9ferry piers
Bringhausen, Halbinsel Scheid, Waldeck, Strandbad, Sperrmauer, Ufer West, Sperrmauer, Ufer Ost and 4 more
- 59viewpoints
Herrmanns Höhe, Loreley Klippe, Elsterberg, Altane Schloss Waldeck, Katzenstein and 54 more
- 77hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Landgasthaus Forellenhof, Hotel Werbetal, Gästehaus zur Fähre, Idylle am Edersee, Ringhotel Roggenland and 72 more
- —fishing spots
- 45restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Waldeck7,785 people
- Vöhl6,296 people
- Edertal6,223 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Kassel Airport (KSF), 34 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 | 1.6 | 2.8 | 7.2 | 12.8 | 16.8 | 20.5 | 23.1 | 22.9 | 18.4 | 12.5 | 6.4 | 2.5 |
| 2020 | +2.5 | +3.5 | +0.7 | +2.4 | −0.7 | +0.1 | −0.1 | +1.9 | +2.0 | −0.3 | +1.3 | +0.4 |
| 2021 | −0.9 | +0.3 | +0.5 | −3.6 | −3.5 | +2.1 | −1.8 | −3.0 | +1.3 | +0.1 | −0.7 | +1.1 |
| 2022 | +1.8 | +3.2 | +1.9 | −1.7 | +1.8 | +2.9 | +2.5 | +4.6 | −0.3 | +3.2 | +2.2 | +0.3 |
| 2023 | +2.4 | +2.1 | +0.3 | −2.3 | +0.1 | +2.2 | −0.1 | −1.2 | +3.9 | +2.3 | +0.3 | +2.1 |
| 2024 | +0.6 | +4.9 | +2.7 | −0.4 | +1.5 | −0.5 | −0.9 | +1.3 | +1.0 | +1.3 | +0.2 | +0.9 |
| 2025 | +1.0 | +0.1 | +2.7 | +2.2 | +0.6 | +2.6 | +0.6 | +1.6 | +0.2 | −0.3 | +0.1 | +1.7 |
+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual
About 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 (Q693343) · 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.
