Lake · Sweden
Ivö Lake
Lake in Sweden
- Area
- 49.9km²
- Max depth
- 50m
- Average depth
- 12m
- Elevation
- 4m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 93km
- Volume
- 0.591km³
Ivö Lake is a lake in Sweden. It covers 49.9 km². On average it is 12 m deep, and 50 m at its deepest point. Its surface lies 4 m above sea level.
Plan your visit
Stay, sail and get there
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The water
How warm is Ivö Lake?
The water is warmest in July, around 21 °C at the surface, and coldest in February, around 1 °C. The surface averages 20 °C or more from July to August: comfortable for most swimmers.
It does not normally freeze in winter.
On the shore, afternoons reach 21 °C on average in July and 2 °C in January. The driest month is April (37 mm of rain), the wettest July (82 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (98 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 | 1 | 2 | 2 | -2 | 62 | 13 | 0.4 | 21 |
| February | 1 | 1 | 2 | -2 | 51 | 11 | 1.6 | 20 |
| March | 3 | 5 | 5 | -1 | 43 | 10 | 4.5 | 18 |
| April | 7 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 37 | 9 | 6.9 | 16 |
| May | 13 | 16 | 15 | 7 | 49 | 10 | 8.1 | 16 |
| June | 19 | 20 | 19 | 11 | 58 | 12 | 8.4 | 16 |
| July | 21 | 21 | 21 | 14 | 82 | 13 | 7.5 | 15 |
| August | 20 | 21 | 20 | 14 | 80 | 14 | 6.4 | 16 |
| September | 17 | 19 | 17 | 11 | 57 | 12 | 5.0 | 18 |
| October | 12 | 14 | 11 | 7 | 76 | 14 | 2.5 | 19 |
| November | 7 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 71 | 15 | 0.5 | 19 |
| December | 3 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 67 | 15 | 0.1 | 20 |
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 20 months before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 1,157 km² of land.
- About 11 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
- Its shoreline is 3.7 times longer than a circle of the same area: plenty of bays and inlets.
Around the shore
What's around Ivö Lake
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 18beaches and swimming spots
Furestads badplats, Strandänges Badplats and 16 more
- 6campsites
Caravan Club Söndremark, Slättön, Söndre Udde, Strandängens Camping & Vandrarhem, Ivö Camping and 1 more
- 1boat hire and water-sport clubs
Wetlandi
- 5marinas and slipways
Småbåtshamnen Ivön
- 2ferry piers
Barum, Ivö
- 8viewpoints
- 5hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Hotell Iföhus, Barnakälla, Bäckaskog slott, Tiny House in Sävedal
- —fishing spots
- 14restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Bromölla7,854 people
- Näsum1,307 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Ronneby Airport (RNB), 58 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 | 1.6 | 1.9 | 4.7 | 9.8 | 14.9 | 18.6 | 20.9 | 20.4 | 16.9 | 11.4 | 6.7 | 3.4 |
| 2020 | +3.9 | +3.9 | +1.9 | +1.6 | −0.9 | +2.2 | −1.7 | +1.7 | +1.6 | +1.2 | +2.2 | +1.4 |
| 2021 | −0.4 | −1.3 | +1.0 | −0.8 | −1.2 | +2.9 | +2.3 | −0.8 | +0.6 | +1.2 | +0.8 | −1.7 |
| 2022 | +2.0 | +2.6 | +1.7 | ±0.0 | −0.3 | +0.7 | −0.5 | +2.2 | −0.5 | +2.6 | +1.6 | −1.1 |
| 2023 | +2.7 | +2.0 | +0.4 | −0.5 | +0.2 | +2.1 | −1.1 | −0.6 | +2.3 | +0.5 | −1.4 | −0.5 |
| 2024 | −0.7 | +2.2 | +1.1 | −0.5 | +1.8 | ±0.0 | −0.7 | +0.5 | +1.4 | +1.5 | +0.6 | +1.8 |
| 2025 | +1.7 | +0.4 | +2.6 | +2.2 | −0.5 | −0.5 | +0.9 | −0.1 | +1.2 | +0.9 | +0.2 | +1.6 |
+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual
DenmarkAbout 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 (Q1675882) · 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.
