Reservoir · Germany
Großer Brombachsee
Reservoir in Germany
- Area
- 8.0km²
- Average depth
- 16m
- Elevation
- 407m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 15km
- Volume
- 0.129km³
Großer Brombachsee is a reservoir in Germany. It covers 8.0 km². On average it is 16 m deep. Its surface lies 407 m above sea level.
Plan your visit
Stay, sail and get there
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The water
How warm is Großer Brombachsee?
The water is warmest in July, around 23 °C at the surface, and coldest in January, around 2 °C. The surface averages 20 °C or more from June to August: comfortable for most swimmers.
It does not normally freeze in winter.
On the shore, afternoons reach 24 °C on average in July and 2 °C in January. The driest month is February (43 mm of rain), the wettest July (87 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (94 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 | 2 | 2 | -4 | 59 | 12 | 1.4 | 17 |
| February | 2 | 3 | 4 | -4 | 43 | 10 | 3.1 | 17 |
| March | 5 | 8 | 9 | -1 | 49 | 11 | 4.4 | 17 |
| April | 11 | 13 | 14 | 3 | 44 | 10 | 6.5 | 14 |
| May | 16 | 18 | 18 | 8 | 85 | 14 | 6.7 | 14 |
| June | 21 | 22 | 22 | 12 | 74 | 15 | 7.5 | 12 |
| July | 23 | 23 | 24 | 13 | 87 | 14 | 7.5 | 12 |
| August | 22 | 23 | 24 | 13 | 81 | 13 | 6.6 | 12 |
| September | 19 | 20 | 19 | 8 | 56 | 10 | 5.4 | 12 |
| October | 14 | 17 | 14 | 4 | 56 | 11 | 3.4 | 14 |
| November | 9 | 12 | 7 | 0 | 56 | 11 | 1.4 | 14 |
| December | 4 | 6 | 3 | -3 | 60 | 13 | 1.0 | 16 |
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 9.7 years before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 58 km² of land.
- About 0.4 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
Around the shore
What's around Großer Brombachsee
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 26beaches and swimming spots
Badeareal Ramsberg, Ziegelhüttenstrand, Hopfenstrand, Badeareal Pleinfeld and 22 more
- 6campsites
Waldcamping am Brombachsee, Wohnmobilstellplatz Panorama, Zeltwiese Absberg, Reisemobilhafen Badehalbinsel Absberg, Stellplatz am Igelsbachsee and 1 more
- 9boat hire and water-sport clubs
Kleiner Brombachsee, Großer Brombachsee - Tauchbasis Brombachsee, Wakepark Brombachsee, Segelschule Greubel / Basis 2, Ruderverein Brombachsee e.V. and 4 more
- 28marinas and slipways
Ramsberg, Yachthafen Absberg Seespitz, Seezentrum Enderndorf and 25 more
- 5ferry piers
Anlegestelle Absberg, Anlagestelle Allmannsdorf, Anlegestelle Enderndorf, Anlegestelle Ramsberg, Anlegestelle Pleinfeld/Wald
- 6viewpoints
Aussichtsturm mit Panorama auf den Brombachsee, Brombachsee-Blick and 4 more
- 37hotels, B&Bs and chalets
FeWo Ritzer, FeWo Riedl "Urlaub beim Krammer", Ferienwohnungen Alois Gerstner, FeWo Beim Schmied, Pension Krone and 32 more
- —fishing spots
- 24restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Pleinfeld7,482 people
- Absberg1,336 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Nuremberg Airport (NUE), 42 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 | 1.7 | 3.5 | 8.6 | 14.2 | 18.2 | 22.1 | 24.1 | 23.7 | 19.2 | 13.6 | 6.9 | 2.6 |
| 2020 | +2.6 | +4.0 | +0.5 | +2.7 | −0.3 | −1.3 | +0.7 | +1.2 | +1.6 | −0.6 | +1.0 | −0.1 |
| 2021 | −0.9 | +2.3 | −0.1 | −3.2 | −3.8 | +1.5 | −1.6 | −2.9 | +1.2 | −0.6 | −1.5 | +0.8 |
| 2022 | +1.1 | +3.1 | +1.1 | −2.0 | +1.9 | +2.8 | +2.6 | +3.4 | −1.0 | +3.8 | +2.4 | +0.8 |
| 2023 | +2.8 | +2.2 | +1.5 | −2.4 | ±0.0 | +2.1 | +1.4 | +0.5 | +4.3 | +3.4 | +0.8 | +2.1 |
| 2024 | +1.5 | +5.2 | +3.6 | +0.3 | +0.5 | −0.1 | +0.2 | +1.8 | −0.1 | +1.0 | −0.3 | +0.6 |
| 2025 | +1.6 | +0.3 | +2.1 | +1.8 | +0.1 | +2.6 | −0.4 | +1.0 | −0.2 | −0.4 | −0.3 | +1.4 |
+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 (Q49406) · 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.
