Reservoir · Bosnia and Herzegovina
Jablaničko Lake
Jablaničko jezero
Lake and reservoir in Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Area
- 10.4km²
- Max depth
- 80m
- Average depth
- 3.0m
- Elevation
- 263m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 69km
- Volume
- 0.032km³
Jablaničko Lake is a reservoir in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It covers 10.4 km². On average it is 3.0 m deep, and 80 m at its deepest point. Its surface lies 263 m above sea level.
Plan your visit
Stay, sail and get there
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The water
How warm is Jablaničko Lake?
The water is warmest in July, around 26 °C at the surface, and coldest in January, around 3 °C. The surface averages 20 °C or more from June to September: comfortable for most swimmers.
It does not normally freeze in winter.
On the shore, afternoons reach 25 °C on average in August and 2 °C in January. The driest month is July (48 mm of rain), the wettest November (120 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (146 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 | 3 | 4 | 2 | -5 | 101 | 12 | 3.0 | 12 |
| February | 5 | 7 | 3 | -4 | 96 | 12 | 3.5 | 13 |
| March | 10 | 12 | 7 | -2 | 90 | 12 | 4.9 | 13 |
| April | 15 | 17 | 13 | 3 | 76 | 12 | 5.5 | 10 |
| May | 20 | 22 | 17 | 7 | 77 | 13 | 6.7 | 9 |
| June | 24 | 25 | 21 | 11 | 74 | 12 | 8.6 | 8 |
| July | 26 | 26 | 24 | 13 | 48 | 10 | 9.6 | 8 |
| August | 25 | 26 | 25 | 13 | 48 | 8 | 9.0 | 8 |
| September | 22 | 24 | 20 | 8 | 86 | 10 | 6.3 | 9 |
| October | 16 | 19 | 15 | 5 | 98 | 11 | 5.1 | 10 |
| November | 9 | 12 | 9 | 1 | 120 | 14 | 3.4 | 11 |
| December | 4 | 6 | 3 | -4 | 115 | 14 | 2.6 | 12 |
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 5 days before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 2,303 km² of land.
- About 70 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
- Its shoreline is 6.0 times longer than a circle of the same area: plenty of bays and inlets.
Around the shore
What's around Jablaničko Lake
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 2beaches and swimming spots
- 4campsites
Camp Oaza, Glamping Bagrem, Auto Camp Miris ljeta
- —boat hire and water-sport clubs
- —marinas and slipways
- —ferry piers
- 2viewpoints
- 8hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Orahovica, Spago Apartment, Motel Konjic, Palma, S&R Hostel and 3 more
- —fishing spots
- 11restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Konjic15,950 people
- Jablanica6,209 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Sarajevo International Airport (SJJ), 39 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 | 2.0 | 3.2 | 7.4 | 12.7 | 17.3 | 21.4 | 24.5 | 25.2 | 19.6 | 14.7 | 9.0 | 3.3 |
| 2020 | +1.5 | +2.7 | +1.2 | +1.0 | −0.6 | −1.1 | +0.7 | +0.4 | +2.0 | −0.5 | +1.1 | +3.1 |
| 2021 | −1.1 | +2.9 | −1.8 | −2.6 | −0.7 | +2.2 | +2.7 | +1.1 | +1.7 | −1.3 | +1.4 | −0.6 |
| 2022 | −0.1 | +1.7 | −1.4 | −1.0 | +3.0 | +3.9 | +2.4 | +0.4 | −0.4 | +3.7 | +1.7 | +4.5 |
| 2023 | +2.5 | +0.1 | +1.5 | −2.2 | ±0.0 | −0.1 | +1.8 | −0.4 | +3.1 | +3.9 | +0.2 | +2.9 |
| 2024 | +2.1 | +5.3 | +3.1 | +2.8 | +0.8 | +3.1 | +3.6 | +3.6 | +0.4 | +2.8 | −0.2 | +0.4 |
| 2025 | +2.8 | +2.3 | +2.7 | +0.5 | −0.8 | +3.8 | +1.9 | +0.1 | +2.2 | −2.2 | +0.2 | +3.3 |
+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual
Nearby
More lakes nearby
Bosnia and Herzegovina11.2 km² · 33 km away25°maxBlidinje LakeBosnia and Herzegovina3.5 km² · 33 km away20°maxBuško BlatoBosnia and Herzegovina49.3 km² · 70 km away23°maxBilećko LakeBosnia and Herzegovina22.4 km² · 106 km away26°maxModrac LakeBosnia and Herzegovina13.3 km² · 103 km away27°maxLake Piva
Montenegro8.0 km² · 91 km away21°maxAbout these numbers
| 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 (Q1541439) · 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.
