Reservoir · Russia
Izhevsk Reservoir
Reservoir in Udmurtia, Russia
- Area
- 18.8km²
- Average depth
- 12m
- Elevation
- 94m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 35km
- Volume
- 0.217km³
Izhevsk Reservoir is a reservoir in Russia. It covers 18.8 km². On average it is 12 m deep. Its surface lies 94 m above sea level.
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The water
How warm is Izhevsk Reservoir?
The water is warmest in July, around 23 °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 166 days a year, from around 25 October to 8 April.
On the shore, afternoons reach 23 °C on average in July and -12 °C in January. The driest month is February (34 mm of rain), the wettest June (82 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (101 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 | — | -12 | -18 | 42 | 12 | 1.9 | 11 |
| February | Ice | — | -10 | -18 | 34 | 10 | 4.0 | 11 |
| March | Ice | — | -3 | -10 | 48 | 11 | 5.3 | 12 |
| April | 3 | 8 | 6 | -2 | 46 | 10 | 6.7 | 10 |
| May | 13 | 17 | 17 | 6 | 61 | 12 | 8.6 | 10 |
| June | 20 | 22 | 20 | 11 | 82 | 15 | 8.9 | 9 |
| July | 23 | 23 | 23 | 14 | 80 | 16 | 9.0 | 8 |
| August | 21 | 23 | 21 | 12 | 71 | 14 | 6.7 | 8 |
| September | 14 | 18 | 14 | 6 | 62 | 12 | 4.2 | 9 |
| October | 4 | 9 | 5 | -1 | 70 | 13 | 1.5 | 10 |
| November | Ice | — | -3 | -8 | 53 | 12 | 0.2 | 10 |
| December | Ice | — | -10 | -16 | 49 | 12 | 0.8 | 10 |
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 7 months before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 1,708 km² of land.
- About 11 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
Around the shore
What's around Izhevsk Reservoir
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 6beaches and swimming spots
- 15campsites
- 2boat hire and water-sport clubs
- 3marinas and slipways
- 5ferry piers
- 25viewpoints
Old jetty, Embankment, Stone mound, Glade located near Vazhnin kljuch, Wooden pier near "Losiny ostrov" and 20 more
- 24hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Cosmos and 23 more
- —fishing spots
- 137restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Izhevsk648,213 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Izhevsk Airport (IJK), 20 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 | -11.9 | -10.1 | -2.8 | 5.9 | 17.0 | 20.4 | 23.2 | 20.9 | 14.5 | 5.3 | -3.3 | -10.5 |
| 2020 | +6.0 | +5.6 | +2.6 | +0.2 | −0.5 | −1.7 | +1.1 | −1.8 | −0.2 | +1.4 | −0.8 | −1.5 |
| 2021 | +0.3 | −5.1 | −1.6 | +0.5 | +3.5 | +3.0 | +0.3 | +2.3 | −3.1 | +1.0 | +1.5 | ±0.0 |
| 2022 | +0.6 | +5.8 | −1.9 | −0.7 | −4.4 | −0.7 | +1.5 | +4.2 | −1.3 | +0.7 | −2.5 | −0.7 |
| 2023 | −2.0 | +1.9 | +2.2 | +5.1 | +2.4 | −1.7 | +0.6 | +1.1 | +3.4 | +0.5 | +0.9 | −2.3 |
| 2024 | −2.1 | −0.7 | +1.1 | +3.7 | −5.1 | +2.4 | ±0.0 | −1.3 | +3.6 | +0.2 | +1.3 | +3.7 |
| 2025 | +5.8 | +2.1 | +2.1 | +3.4 | +0.4 | +0.8 | −1.3 | +0.2 | +0.6 | +1.5 | +4.2 | +2.0 |
+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 (Q1994714) · 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.
