Lake · Austria
Faaker See
Lake in Carinthia
- Area
- 2.0km²
- Max depth
- 30m
- Average depth
- 6.8m
- Elevation
- 551m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 8.6km
- Volume
- 0.014km³
Faaker See is a lake in Austria. It covers 2.0 km². On average it is 6.8 m deep, and 30 m at its deepest point. Its surface lies 551 m above sea level.
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Stay, sail and get there
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The water
How warm is Faaker See?
The water is warmest in July, around 24 °C at the surface, and coldest in January, around 0 °C. The surface averages 20 °C or more from June to August: comfortable for most swimmers.
The lake usually freezes over for about 41 days a year, from around 28 December to 6 February.
On the shore, afternoons reach 22 °C on average in July and 0 °C in January. The driest month is January (58 mm of rain), the wettest August (140 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (73 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 | — | 0 | -8 | 58 | 8 | 3.8 | 6 |
| February | 1 | 3 | 1 | -7 | 66 | 8 | 4.6 | 7 |
| March | 6 | 10 | 6 | -3 | 74 | 10 | 5.6 | 7 |
| April | 13 | 16 | 11 | 1 | 83 | 13 | 5.7 | 7 |
| May | 18 | 20 | 16 | 6 | 110 | 16 | 6.2 | 7 |
| June | 23 | 24 | 20 | 10 | 120 | 17 | 7.4 | 6 |
| July | 24 | 24 | 22 | 12 | 125 | 17 | 8.3 | 6 |
| August | 22 | 24 | 22 | 12 | 140 | 16 | 7.4 | 6 |
| September | 19 | 21 | 17 | 7 | 130 | 13 | 5.9 | 6 |
| October | 14 | 17 | 12 | 3 | 118 | 13 | 4.6 | 6 |
| November | 8 | 11 | 6 | 0 | 119 | 12 | 3.1 | 6 |
| December | 2 | 4 | 1 | -6 | 85 | 10 | 3.4 | 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 8 months before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 25 km² of land.
- About 0.6 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
Around the shore
What's around Faaker See
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 7beaches and swimming spots
Strandbad Egg, Siedlerbad and 5 more
- 6campsites
Wiesencamping Marhof, Camping Arneitz, Strandcamping Gruber, Anderwald, Ferien am Walde and 1 more
- 3boat hire and water-sport clubs
Ahoi Faakersee, Bootsverlei Ahoi, Strandbad Walter
- 1marinas and slipways
- 2ferry piers
Insel Transfer
- 2viewpoints
Taborhöhe
- 98hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Karnerhof, Gina's Kinderhotel, Bundessport-und Freizeitzentrum Faaker See, Strandhotel Faak, Trink and 93 more
- —fishing spots
- 29restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Ledenitzen1,118 people
- Faak am See1,049 people
- Föderlach I1,012 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Klagenfurt Airport (KLU), 32 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 | -0.2 | 1.1 | 5.7 | 11.3 | 16.0 | 20.3 | 22.3 | 21.9 | 17.0 | 11.9 | 6.0 | 1.0 |
| 2020 | +2.9 | +2.7 | −0.2 | +1.9 | −0.4 | −2.0 | −0.2 | +0.1 | +0.7 | −1.6 | +1.4 | −0.6 |
| 2021 | −2.2 | −0.3 | −0.3 | −3.0 | −2.9 | +1.6 | −0.4 | −1.2 | +1.9 | −0.5 | +0.2 | −1.5 |
| 2022 | −0.6 | +0.1 | +0.3 | −1.5 | +1.2 | +2.4 | +2.6 | +0.9 | −0.9 | +3.9 | +0.9 | −0.4 |
| 2023 | +0.9 | +0.4 | +0.7 | −2.2 | −0.7 | +0.6 | ±0.0 | +0.2 | +2.8 | +3.4 | +0.1 | +1.7 |
| 2024 | +1.1 | +4.8 | +2.5 | +0.8 | −0.4 | −0.5 | +1.3 | +3.0 | −0.3 | +1.3 | +0.3 | +1.3 |
| 2025 | +1.9 | +1.3 | +1.5 | +1.6 | −0.6 | +2.9 | −0.7 | +0.5 | +1.1 | −0.4 | −0.1 | +2.4 |
+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual
SloveniaAbout 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 (Q595522) · 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.
