Lake · Poland
Jezioro Charzykowskie
Lake in Poland
- Area
- 12.8km²
- Max depth
- 30m
- Average depth
- 11m
- Elevation
- 115m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 32km
- Volume
- 0.138km³
Jezioro Charzykowskie is a lake in Poland. It covers 12.8 km². On average it is 11 m deep, and 30 m at its deepest point. Its surface lies 115 m above sea level.
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The water
How warm is Jezioro Charzykowskie?
The water is warmest in July, around 23 °C at the surface, and coldest in February, 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 42 days a year, from around 13 January to 23 February.
On the shore, afternoons reach 24 °C on average in July and -1 °C in January. The driest month is April (36 mm of rain), the wettest July (94 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (92 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 | — | -1 | -5 | 54 | 13 | 0.3 | 21 |
| February | Ice | — | 1 | -5 | 39 | 11 | 1.7 | 20 |
| March | 2 | 5 | 5 | -2 | 44 | 11 | 3.9 | 19 |
| April | 8 | 11 | 12 | 2 | 36 | 9 | 6.8 | 17 |
| May | 15 | 18 | 18 | 7 | 61 | 12 | 8.2 | 16 |
| June | 20 | 22 | 21 | 11 | 64 | 13 | 8.6 | 16 |
| July | 23 | 23 | 24 | 14 | 94 | 14 | 7.6 | 16 |
| August | 21 | 22 | 23 | 13 | 76 | 14 | 6.7 | 15 |
| September | 17 | 19 | 19 | 9 | 58 | 12 | 5.3 | 16 |
| October | 13 | 15 | 12 | 4 | 57 | 12 | 2.8 | 18 |
| November | 8 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 56 | 12 | 0.6 | 18 |
| December | 3 | 5 | 1 | -3 | 57 | 13 | 0.0 | 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 7 months before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 860 km² of land.
- About 7.0 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
- Its shoreline is 2.5 times longer than a circle of the same area: plenty of bays and inlets.
Around the shore
What's around Jezioro Charzykowskie
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 10beaches and swimming spots
Plaża Charzykowy, Dzika plaza, MIKOMANIA, NATURA, kąpielisko Charzykowy and 5 more
- 4campsites
Pole namiotowe, Agroturystyka Paradise
- —boat hire and water-sport clubs
- 2marinas and slipways
Stanica wodna
- —ferry piers
- 10viewpoints
Światowid and 9 more
- 17hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Vega, Turysta, Lato U Sokoła, Na Skarpie, Nad jeziorem and 12 more
- —fishing spots
- 5restaurants and cafés
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Ignacy Jan Paderewski Bydgoszcz Airport (BZG), 82 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 | -0.6 | 1.1 | 5.4 | 12.1 | 17.5 | 21.2 | 23.6 | 23.3 | 18.6 | 11.8 | 5.6 | 1.4 |
| 2020 | +4.3 | +4.1 | +1.1 | +0.2 | −3.0 | +0.8 | −1.3 | +2.6 | +1.7 | +1.0 | +1.9 | −0.1 |
| 2021 | −0.5 | −2.7 | +0.7 | −2.8 | −1.8 | +3.0 | +1.9 | −1.8 | +0.4 | +1.4 | +1.2 | −1.7 |
| 2022 | +3.1 | +3.5 | +1.8 | −1.5 | −0.5 | +2.6 | +0.5 | +4.0 | −1.3 | +3.0 | +0.1 | −1.3 |
| 2023 | +4.0 | +2.0 | +0.8 | −0.8 | +0.3 | +2.8 | +0.3 | ±0.0 | +4.8 | +1.3 | −0.2 | +1.0 |
| 2024 | +1.5 | +4.6 | +3.5 | +0.8 | +2.8 | +0.6 | +0.1 | +1.5 | +3.6 | +1.9 | ±0.0 | +2.4 |
| 2025 | +3.0 | +0.5 | +4.0 | +2.8 | −1.8 | +0.7 | +0.2 | −0.4 | +1.6 | −0.1 | −0.2 | +1.3 |
+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 (Q4973783) · 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.
