Lake · Denmark
Furesø
Lake in Denmark
- Area
- 8.5km²
- Max depth
- 38m
- Average depth
- 10m
- Elevation
- 19m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 17km
- Volume
- 0.086km³
Furesø is a lake in Denmark. It covers 8.5 km². On average it is 10 m deep, and 38 m at its deepest point. Its surface lies 19 m above sea level.
Plan your visit
Stay, sail and get there
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The water
How warm is Furesø?
The water is warmest in July, around 21 °C at the surface, and coldest in February, around 1 °C. The surface averages 20 °C or more in July: comfortable for most swimmers.
It does not normally freeze in winter.
On the shore, afternoons reach 21 °C on average in July and 2 °C in January. The driest month is April (37 mm of rain), the wettest August (88 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (68 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 | 2 | 3 | 2 | -1 | 67 | 13 | 0.3 | 24 |
| February | 1 | 2 | 2 | -1 | 54 | 11 | 1.6 | 23 |
| March | 3 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 45 | 11 | 4.3 | 21 |
| April | 7 | 10 | 10 | 3 | 37 | 9 | 6.8 | 19 |
| May | 13 | 16 | 15 | 8 | 51 | 11 | 8.1 | 18 |
| June | 19 | 20 | 18 | 12 | 73 | 13 | 8.3 | 18 |
| July | 21 | 21 | 21 | 15 | 79 | 13 | 7.6 | 17 |
| August | 20 | 21 | 20 | 15 | 88 | 15 | 6.3 | 18 |
| September | 16 | 18 | 17 | 12 | 57 | 12 | 4.9 | 20 |
| October | 12 | 14 | 12 | 7 | 77 | 14 | 2.5 | 22 |
| November | 8 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 68 | 14 | 0.5 | 22 |
| December | 5 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 70 | 14 | 0.0 | 23 |
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 3.3 years before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 67 km² of land.
- About 0.8 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
Around the shore
What's around Furesø
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 7beaches and swimming spots
Frederiksdal Fribad, Høje Klint, Badebro ved Holte Roklub, Fiskebæk Friluftsbad, Kinabugten and 2 more
- 19campsites
Landgangsstedet Åsevang, Bådhus, Ny Åsevang, Klavs Nar, Fandens Mose and 14 more
- 7boat hire and water-sport clubs
Roklubben Furesø, Kanokajakcenter.dk, Farum Sø Bådudlejning, Bagsværd Sø Rostadion, Birkerød Roklub and 2 more
- 6marinas and slipways
Yachtklubben Furesøen, Holte Havn and 4 more
- 11ferry piers
Birkerød, Aldershvile Slotspavilion, Jægerhuset, Holte Havn, Riggata and 6 more
- 8viewpoints
Vulkanen and 7 more
- 4hotels, B&Bs and chalets
family Sadolin, Sinatur Hotel Frederiksdal, Kolle Kolle Hotel og Konferencecenter, Comwell Holte
- —fishing spots
- 21restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Farum20,312 people
- Virum15,200 people
- Gammel Virum15,000 people
- Værløse13,197 people
- Stavnsholt5,658 people
- Holte
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Copenhagen Kastrup Airport (CPH), 25 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 | 2.3 | 2.3 | 4.9 | 10.1 | 15.1 | 18.4 | 20.8 | 20.5 | 17.1 | 11.9 | 7.3 | 3.9 |
| 2020 | +3.7 | +3.7 | +1.8 | +0.7 | −1.6 | +1.8 | −2.2 | +2.2 | +1.2 | +0.9 | +1.9 | +1.0 |
| 2021 | −0.7 | −1.5 | +1.1 | −1.3 | −1.6 | +2.0 | +1.9 | −0.8 | +1.1 | +1.0 | +0.9 | −1.2 |
| 2022 | +2.2 | +3.0 | +1.5 | −0.2 | −0.3 | +0.5 | −0.4 | +2.3 | −0.3 | +2.3 | +1.5 | −1.4 |
| 2023 | +2.4 | +2.2 | +0.8 | +0.1 | +0.1 | +2.3 | −1.1 | −0.9 | +2.5 | +0.6 | −1.2 | −0.4 |
| 2024 | −0.6 | +2.5 | +1.7 | −0.2 | +2.6 | −0.1 | −0.9 | +0.4 | +1.4 | +1.3 | +0.7 | +1.7 |
| 2025 | +1.5 | +0.5 | +2.8 | +2.2 | −0.5 | +0.1 | +0.8 | −0.2 | +1.6 | +0.9 | ±0.0 | +1.8 |
+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual
SwedenAbout 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 (Q2181714) · 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.
