Hashmat Khan Lake

Lake and protected area in Kabul, Afghanistan

Area: 1.4km²
Average depth: 4.1m
Elevation: 1,792m a.s.l.
Shoreline: 7.0km
Volume: 0.006km³

Hashmat Khan Lake is a lake in Afghanistan. It covers 1.4 km². On average it is 4.1 m deep. Its surface lies 1,792 m above sea level.

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The water

Water temperature

There is no reliable satellite record of the water temperature for this lake yet.

On the shore, afternoons reach 32 °C on average in July and 5 °C in January. The driest month is December (19 mm of rain), the wettest April (79 mm).

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.

Climate: 1991–2020 average

The year at the lake, month by month
Month	Water°C	Water high°C	Air high°C	Air low°C	Rainmm	Rainy daysdays	Sunh/day	Windkm/h
January	—	—	5	-6	40	5	6.1	8
February	—	—	7	-5	65	7	6.2	10
March	—	—	14	0	78	9	7.6	9
April	—	—	20	5	79	8	9.2	10
May	—	—	25	9	48	6	11.4	12
June	—	—	29	12	30	4	13.1	14
July	—	—	32	14	34	5	12.9	14
August	—	—	30	13	42	6	11.9	13
September	—	—	26	9	33	5	11.3	11
October	—	—	20	4	25	3	10.1	9
November	—	—	13	0	28	3	7.8	8
December	—	—	8	-4	19	2	7.0	8

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

Drawn to the same scale, next to lakes you may know.

Average depth4 m

On average, water stays in the lake for about 4.8 years before flowing out.
Its catchment drains 8 km² of land.
About 0.0 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.

Around the shore

What's around Hashmat Khan Lake

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
—ferry piers
—viewpoints
1hotels, B&Bs and chalets
—fishing spots
—restaurants and cafés

Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Kabul International Airport (KBL), 8 km in a straight line.

OpenStreetMap is built by volunteers: when a number is low, it may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

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	5.0	6.8	13.5	19.5	24.6	29.2	31.5	30.4	26.4	20.4	13.4	7.9
2020	−3.6	+2.0	−3.1	−2.2	−2.5	−1.0	−0.8	+1.5	+0.2	−1.3	−1.6	−1.2
2021	+2.8	+6.2	+1.6	+0.1	−0.8	+0.3	+0.3	−0.6	+1.0	−1.8	−0.4	+0.3
2022	−2.6	−0.1	+3.4	+4.3	−0.2	−0.9	±0.0	−2.6	+0.1	+0.3	−1.0	+0.1
2023	−3.6	+2.4	+0.5	+0.1	−1.3	+1.3	+0.1	+0.3	+1.6	+1.6	+2.6	+4.0
2024	+4.7	−0.4	−2.0	−3.3	−0.5	−0.4	+0.4	+0.6	+1.8	+2.5	+3.0	−0.3
2025	+1.2	+2.3	+1.0	+4.8	+4.4	+2.9	+1.1	+0.7	+0.7	+0.6	+1.1	+2.6

+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual

Nearby

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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 (Q109941382) · 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.