Lake · Lithuania
Galvė
Lake in Lithuania
- Area
- 6.7km²
- Max depth
- 47m
- Average depth
- 6.3m
- Elevation
- 145m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 38km
- Volume
- 0.042km³
Galvė is a lake in Lithuania. It covers 6.7 km². On average it is 6.3 m deep, and 47 m at its deepest point. Its surface lies 145 m above sea level.
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The water
How warm is Galvė?
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 104 days a year, from around 2 December to 15 March.
On the shore, afternoons reach 23 °C on average in July and -4 °C in January. The driest month is February (43 mm of rain), the wettest July (100 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (79 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 | — | -4 | -9 | 54 | 13 | 0.9 | 15 |
| February | Ice | — | -2 | -9 | 43 | 12 | 2.5 | 14 |
| March | 1 | 3 | 3 | -4 | 45 | 11 | 4.7 | 14 |
| April | 7 | 11 | 12 | 1 | 46 | 10 | 6.4 | 13 |
| May | 14 | 17 | 18 | 7 | 71 | 14 | 7.8 | 12 |
| June | 20 | 21 | 21 | 11 | 77 | 15 | 8.0 | 11 |
| July | 22 | 22 | 23 | 14 | 100 | 16 | 7.3 | 11 |
| August | 20 | 22 | 23 | 13 | 84 | 13 | 6.8 | 11 |
| September | 16 | 19 | 18 | 8 | 54 | 11 | 5.1 | 12 |
| October | 10 | 14 | 10 | 3 | 68 | 12 | 2.3 | 13 |
| November | 3 | 6 | 4 | -1 | 56 | 12 | 0.0 | 14 |
| December | Ice | — | -1 | -6 | 55 | 13 | 0.2 | 15 |
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 3.0 years before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 65 km² of land.
- About 0.5 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
- Its shoreline is 4.1 times longer than a circle of the same area: plenty of bays and inlets.
Around the shore
What's around Galvė
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 10beaches and swimming spots
Galvės ežero maudykla, Akmenos nudistų paplūdimys, Akmenos pliažas and 7 more
- 3campsites
Skaisčio stovyklavietė, Slėnis
- 6boat hire and water-sport clubs
Valčių nuoma, Galvės ežero maudykla, Trakų sporto bazė and 3 more
- 1marinas and slipways
Jachtklubas
- —ferry piers
- 7viewpoints
Trakų m. apžvalgos aikštelė, Trakų pilies panorama, Vaizdas į Galvės ežerą, Vaizdas į Galvės ežerą iš Užutrakio dvaro, Bulvių kelio apžvalgos aikštelė and 2 more
- 13hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Apvalaus stalo klubas, Little Town Apartments, Rotušė, Fransua Apartments, Verubė and 8 more
- —fishing spots
- 26restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Trakai5,530 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Vilnius International Airport (VNO), 20 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 | -3.9 | -2.2 | 3.4 | 11.6 | 17.9 | 21.1 | 23.4 | 22.9 | 17.6 | 9.8 | 3.7 | -1.3 |
| 2020 | +5.8 | +5.7 | +3.3 | −0.8 | −3.3 | +1.9 | −1.0 | +1.1 | +2.0 | +2.9 | +1.3 | +0.8 |
| 2021 | −0.5 | −3.3 | +0.7 | −2.3 | −2.7 | +2.7 | +2.7 | −2.0 | −2.6 | +0.6 | +0.9 | −2.1 |
| 2022 | +3.3 | +3.9 | +1.7 | −2.4 | −2.3 | +1.5 | −1.3 | +2.0 | −3.2 | +2.0 | −0.6 | −2.1 |
| 2023 | +3.5 | +2.2 | +1.7 | +0.3 | −0.6 | +0.6 | −1.3 | +1.5 | +4.0 | +0.7 | −0.5 | +1.1 |
| 2024 | +0.8 | +5.4 | +4.0 | +1.4 | +1.9 | +1.6 | +0.8 | +1.3 | +4.2 | +1.5 | +0.3 | +2.5 |
| 2025 | +5.1 | +0.8 | +5.3 | +2.3 | −3.3 | −0.6 | +0.2 | −1.5 | +1.6 | +0.4 | −0.2 | +2.4 |
+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual
BelarusAbout 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 (Q2579161) · 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.
