Lake · Canada
Harrison Lake
Lake in British Columbia, Canada
- Area
- 222km²
- Average depth
- 195m
- Elevation
- 13m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 203km
- Volume
- 43.2km³
Harrison Lake is a lake in Canada. It covers 222 km². On average it is 195 m deep. Its surface lies 13 m above sea level.
Plan your visit
Stay, sail and get there
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The water
How warm is Harrison Lake?
The water is warmest in August, around 20 °C at the surface, and coldest in February, around 5 °C. It rarely averages 20 °C, but it stays above 17 °C from July to September: brisk, refreshing swimming.
It does not normally freeze in winter.
On the shore, afternoons reach 20 °C on average in July and -2 °C in December. The driest month is July (50 mm of rain), the wettest November (271 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (111 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 | 5 | 5 | -1 | -7 | 242 | 21 | 2.7 | 7 |
| February | 5 | 5 | 0 | -7 | 137 | 17 | 4.3 | 6 |
| March | 6 | 6 | 2 | -4 | 200 | 21 | 5.4 | 6 |
| April | 8 | 9 | 6 | -1 | 120 | 18 | 7.3 | 6 |
| May | 12 | 14 | 14 | 4 | 95 | 16 | 7.7 | 6 |
| June | 16 | 18 | 16 | 7 | 85 | 16 | 7.6 | 6 |
| July | 19 | 20 | 20 | 11 | 50 | 11 | 10.5 | 5 |
| August | 20 | 20 | 20 | 11 | 53 | 10 | 9.3 | 5 |
| September | 17 | 19 | 16 | 7 | 104 | 12 | 6.7 | 5 |
| October | 13 | 15 | 9 | 2 | 191 | 19 | 4.2 | 6 |
| November | 9 | 11 | 2 | -3 | 271 | 22 | 2.2 | 6 |
| December | 6 | 7 | -2 | -8 | 221 | 21 | 2.1 | 6 |
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 4.8 years before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 7,842 km² of land.
- About 286 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
- Its shoreline is 3.9 times longer than a circle of the same area: plenty of bays and inlets.
Around the shore
What's around Harrison Lake
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 76beaches and swimming spots
Sandy Cove Beach, Fossil Beach and 74 more
- 22campsites
Cogburn Beach Recreation Site, Ten Mile Bay North Group Site, Ten Mile Bay South Group Site, Ten Mile Bay Campground, Bremner Delta Recreation Reserve and 17 more
- 1boat hire and water-sport clubs
Killer's Cove Boat Rentals
- 13marinas and slipways
Miami Creek Canoe Launch, Harrison Yacht Club and 11 more
- —ferry piers
- 11viewpoints
Harrison Beach Lookout, Harrison Grind Lookout, Harrison Fire Lookout and 8 more
- 14hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Harrison Spa Motel, Glencoe, Harrison Lake Hotel, Tree House on Harrison Lake, Bramblebank Cottages and 9 more
- 2fishing spots
Francis Lake, Wood Lake
- 25restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Harrison Hot Springs1,905 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Abbotsford International Airport (YXX), 68 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 | -1.0 | -0.2 | 1.8 | 6.1 | 13.6 | 16.0 | 20.0 | 19.9 | 15.7 | 9.1 | 2.3 | -1.6 |
| 2020 | −0.2 | ±0.0 | −1.5 | −0.4 | +0.2 | −1.7 | −1.6 | −1.6 | +2.0 | −0.7 | ±0.0 | +2.0 |
| 2021 | +0.1 | −2.3 | −0.3 | +0.8 | −0.3 | +4.1 | +1.9 | −0.4 | −1.1 | −1.8 | +0.9 | −2.6 |
| 2022 | +1.1 | −0.2 | +0.2 | −0.8 | −3.7 | −0.1 | +1.6 | +3.3 | +3.0 | +5.3 | −2.5 | −2.7 |
| 2023 | +0.3 | −1.2 | −0.7 | −0.8 | +4.2 | +1.8 | +1.1 | +1.7 | +0.1 | +1.4 | +1.3 | +3.2 |
| 2024 | −0.8 | +1.6 | +1.8 | +1.7 | −1.9 | −1.2 | +2.2 | +0.7 | +0.5 | −1.3 | −1.8 | +2.1 |
| 2025 | −0.6 | −3.2 | −0.4 | +2.2 | −1.4 | +0.2 | −0.7 | +0.4 | +2.3 | −2.3 | +0.1 | +1.6 |
+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual
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| 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 (Q317529) · 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.
