Lake · Belize
Four Mile Lagoon
Lake in Corozal District, Belize
- Area
- 1.5km²
- Average depth
- 2.0m
- Elevation
- 0m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 7.5km
- Volume
- 0.003km³
Four Mile Lagoon is a lake in Belize. It covers 1.5 km². On average it is 2.0 m deep. Its surface lies 0 m above sea level.
Plan your visit
Stay, sail and get there
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The water
How warm is Four Mile Lagoon?
The water is warmest in August, around 29 °C at the surface, and coldest in January, around 26 °C. The surface averages 20 °C or more from January to December: comfortable for most swimmers.
It does not normally freeze in winter.
On the shore, afternoons reach 31 °C on average in May and 27 °C in January. The driest month is March (38 mm of rain), the wettest October (221 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (64 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 | 26 | 26 | 27 | 22 | 68 | 12 | 6.2 | 11 |
| February | 26 | 26 | 28 | 22 | 40 | 7 | 7.1 | 11 |
| March | 27 | 27 | 29 | 23 | 38 | 5 | 7.8 | 12 |
| April | 28 | 28 | 31 | 24 | 39 | 5 | 8.2 | 12 |
| May | 29 | 29 | 31 | 26 | 130 | 10 | 7.3 | 11 |
| June | 29 | 29 | 30 | 26 | 201 | 18 | 6.0 | 11 |
| July | 29 | 29 | 30 | 26 | 120 | 17 | 6.7 | 10 |
| August | 29 | 29 | 30 | 26 | 154 | 19 | 6.8 | 10 |
| September | 29 | 29 | 30 | 26 | 172 | 22 | 6.2 | 9 |
| October | 28 | 29 | 29 | 25 | 221 | 20 | 6.2 | 9 |
| November | 27 | 28 | 28 | 23 | 128 | 15 | 6.6 | 10 |
| December | 26 | 27 | 27 | 22 | 81 | 13 | 6.2 | 10 |
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 32 days before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 107 km² of land.
- About 1.1 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
Around the shore
What's around Four Mile Lagoon
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- —beaches and swimming spots
- —campsites
- —boat hire and water-sport clubs
- —marinas and slipways
- 2ferry piers
Pueblo Nuevo
- —viewpoints
- —hotels, B&Bs and chalets
- —fishing spots
- 1restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Ranchito1,649 people
- San Joaquin1,528 people
- San Andres1,243 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Corozal Airport (CZH), 3 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 | 27.0 | 28.2 | 29.4 | 30.7 | 31.0 | 29.8 | 29.8 | 30.3 | 29.9 | 28.8 | 27.7 | 27.3 |
| 2020 | +1.4 | +1.1 | +0.6 | +1.7 | +0.7 | −0.7 | ±0.0 | +0.3 | +0.7 | +0.6 | +0.2 | −1.0 |
| 2021 | −0.3 | ±0.0 | +0.1 | +0.1 | +0.2 | +0.2 | +0.2 | +0.2 | −0.3 | +0.8 | +0.4 | +1.6 |
| 2022 | +0.7 | +0.1 | +0.6 | +0.2 | +0.4 | −0.5 | +0.1 | −0.8 | −0.7 | +0.1 | +0.7 | +0.8 |
| 2023 | +1.6 | +0.8 | +0.7 | +0.7 | +1.9 | +3.3 | +0.5 | +1.0 | +1.3 | +1.4 | +0.7 | +0.1 |
| 2024 | +1.5 | ±0.0 | +2.2 | +1.3 | +2.1 | +0.9 | +0.1 | −0.1 | +0.3 | ±0.0 | +0.6 | −0.6 |
| 2025 | −0.2 | ±0.0 | +0.9 | +0.2 | +1.4 | +0.6 | +0.5 | +0.5 | +0.3 | +0.5 | +0.6 | +0.7 |
+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual
Nearby
More lakes nearby
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Honduras37.0 km² · 297 km away31°maxLake YojoaHonduras79.0 km² · 390 km away28°maxAbout 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 (Q21870640) · 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.
