Reservoir · Russia
Ivankovo Reservoir
Reservoir in Tver and Moscow Oblasts, Russia
- Area
- 215km²
- Max depth
- 19m
- Average depth
- 5.4m
- Elevation
- 120m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 545km
- Volume
- 1.2km³
Ivankovo Reservoir is a reservoir in Russia. It covers 215 km². On average it is 5.4 m deep, and 19 m at its deepest point. Its surface lies 120 m above sea level.
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The water
How warm is Ivankovo Reservoir?
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 June to August: comfortable for most swimmers.
The lake usually freezes over for about 149 days a year, from around 4 November to 1 April.
On the shore, afternoons reach 24 °C on average in July and -7 °C in January. The driest month is February (40 mm of rain), the wettest July (97 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (73 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 | — | -7 | -13 | 47 | 13 | 1.5 | 11 |
| February | Ice | — | -6 | -13 | 40 | 11 | 3.7 | 11 |
| March | Ice | — | 0 | -7 | 44 | 11 | 6.1 | 11 |
| April | 6 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 48 | 11 | 6.6 | 10 |
| May | 15 | 19 | 18 | 7 | 88 | 15 | 7.9 | 9 |
| June | 21 | 22 | 21 | 11 | 95 | 16 | 8.0 | 8 |
| July | 22 | 22 | 24 | 14 | 97 | 17 | 8.1 | 7 |
| August | 20 | 22 | 22 | 12 | 86 | 15 | 6.6 | 8 |
| September | 16 | 18 | 16 | 7 | 63 | 12 | 4.3 | 8 |
| October | 7 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 74 | 13 | 1.5 | 10 |
| November | Ice | — | 0 | -4 | 59 | 12 | 0.2 | 10 |
| December | Ice | — | -5 | -10 | 52 | 13 | 0.3 | 11 |
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 46 days before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 40,929 km² of land.
- About 296 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
- Its shoreline is 10.5 times longer than a circle of the same area: plenty of bays and inlets.
Around the shore
What's around Ivankovo Reservoir
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 44beaches and swimming spots
- 49campsites
- 5boat hire and water-sport clubs
- 22marinas and slipways
"Mayak" yacht club and 21 more
- 17ferry piers
- 3viewpoints
- 21hotels, B&Bs and chalets
- 18fishing spots
- 44restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Konakovo42,239 people
- Novozavidovskiy7,641 people
- Gorodnya5,000 people
- Kozlovo4,248 people
- Radchenko2,022 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Sheremetyevo International Airport (SVO), 93 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 | -7.2 | -5.7 | 0.0 | 9.2 | 17.7 | 20.7 | 23.6 | 21.9 | 15.9 | 7.5 | 0.4 | -4.7 |
| 2020 | +6.9 | +5.6 | +4.7 | −2.0 | −3.4 | +1.5 | −2.2 | −1.2 | +0.4 | +2.7 | +1.4 | −1.4 |
| 2021 | −0.5 | −4.5 | −1.5 | −0.2 | −0.6 | +3.2 | +2.5 | +0.6 | −3.9 | +0.6 | +1.7 | −3.6 |
| 2022 | +0.8 | +3.8 | −1.0 | −2.2 | −4.4 | +1.4 | −0.1 | +3.2 | −3.6 | +1.0 | −1.6 | −0.7 |
| 2023 | +1.1 | +1.1 | +0.5 | +2.9 | −1.3 | −0.2 | −2.0 | +1.4 | +3.0 | −0.9 | ±0.0 | −1.4 |
| 2024 | −3.2 | +1.5 | +1.0 | +3.6 | −1.0 | +2.7 | +1.7 | +1.1 | +5.0 | +2.0 | +0.5 | +1.6 |
| 2025 | +5.8 | +0.4 | +5.4 | +1.3 | −1.7 | −1.3 | +1.0 | −1.9 | +0.9 | ±0.0 | +2.5 | +2.2 |
+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 (Q1676050) · 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.
