Lake · Germany
Fleesensee
Lake in Mecklenburgische Seenplatte District, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
- Area
- 11.7km²
- Max depth
- 26m
- Average depth
- 5.1m
- Elevation
- 59m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 25km
- Volume
- 0.059km³
Fleesensee is a lake in Germany. It covers 11.7 km². On average it is 5.1 m deep, and 26 m at its deepest point. Its surface lies 59 m above sea level.
Plan your visit
Stay, sail and get there
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The water
How warm is Fleesensee?
The water is warmest in July, around 22 °C at the surface, and coldest in January, around 0 °C. The surface averages 20 °C or more from July to August: comfortable for most swimmers.
The lake usually freezes over for about 35 days a year, from around 3 January to 6 February.
On the shore, afternoons reach 23 °C on average in July and 2 °C in January. The driest month is April (35 mm of rain), the wettest July (84 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (90 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 | — | 2 | -3 | 58 | 13 | 0.9 | 20 |
| February | 1 | 2 | 3 | -3 | 43 | 11 | 2.2 | 19 |
| March | 4 | 7 | 8 | -1 | 43 | 10 | 4.0 | 19 |
| April | 9 | 12 | 14 | 3 | 35 | 9 | 6.8 | 17 |
| May | 15 | 17 | 18 | 8 | 50 | 11 | 7.5 | 16 |
| June | 20 | 21 | 21 | 12 | 60 | 13 | 7.7 | 16 |
| July | 22 | 22 | 23 | 14 | 84 | 15 | 7.1 | 15 |
| August | 21 | 22 | 23 | 14 | 65 | 13 | 6.4 | 15 |
| September | 18 | 20 | 19 | 10 | 52 | 10 | 5.4 | 16 |
| October | 12 | 15 | 13 | 6 | 52 | 12 | 3.0 | 17 |
| November | 6 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 50 | 12 | 1.0 | 18 |
| December | 2 | 4 | 3 | -1 | 56 | 13 | 0.4 | 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 3 months before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 1,292 km² of land.
- About 7.6 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
Around the shore
What's around Fleesensee
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 17beaches and swimming spots
Hundestrand and 16 more
- 5campsites
Reisemobilstellplatz Landgasthof "Am Fleesensee", SEEBOOTECH, Natur und Strandcamping am Jabelschen See, Heidepark Silz, Bootshalle Malchow
- 7boat hire and water-sport clubs
Tret-In Bootsverleih, Bootsverleih ''Enrico'', Kanu-Malchow, Fleesensee and 3 more
- 15marinas and slipways
Wasserwander-Rastplatz Malchow, SBS Yachthafenresort Fleesensee, Yachtclub Malchow, FB-Yachtcharter, Heidepark Silz and 10 more
- 2ferry piers
Untergöhren, Malchow
- 1viewpoints
- 32hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Hotel am Fleesensee, Seehotel Fleesensee, Sporthotel Malchow, Landpension "Am Fleesensee", Pension am See and 27 more
- —fishing spots
- 28restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Malchow7,384 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Rostock-Laage Airport (RLG), 48 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 | 1.8 | 3.3 | 7.5 | 13.6 | 18.1 | 21.4 | 23.4 | 23.1 | 18.9 | 13.0 | 7.0 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | +3.7 | +4.1 | +1.2 | +0.9 | −1.8 | +0.9 | −1.6 | +2.3 | +1.0 | +0.5 | +1.6 | +0.2 |
| 2021 | −0.4 | −1.1 | +1.2 | −3.1 | −2.6 | +3.2 | +0.9 | −1.7 | +0.8 | +1.0 | +0.8 | −0.7 |
| 2022 | +2.9 | +3.8 | +1.7 | −1.5 | +0.4 | +1.5 | +0.7 | +2.4 | −1.1 | +3.2 | +0.7 | −1.1 |
| 2023 | +3.6 | +2.0 | +1.0 | −1.6 | +0.2 | +2.1 | −0.6 | −0.4 | +4.4 | +1.2 | +0.3 | +1.0 |
| 2024 | +1.2 | +4.7 | +3.6 | +0.7 | +2.8 | −0.1 | +0.1 | +1.1 | +1.6 | +1.4 | −0.2 | +2.3 |
| 2025 | +1.3 | +0.4 | +3.1 | +2.3 | −0.6 | +0.8 | −0.2 | −0.4 | +1.0 | +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 (Q523551) · 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.
