Reservoir · Russia
Kama Reservoir
Reservoir in Perm Krai, Russia
- Area
- 1,585km²
- Max depth
- 29m
- Average depth
- 7.7m
- Elevation
- 104m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 1,457km
- Volume
- 12.2km³
Kama Reservoir is a reservoir in Russia. It covers 1,585 km². On average it is 7.7 m deep, and 29 m at its deepest point. Its surface lies 104 m above sea level.
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The water
How warm is Kama Reservoir?
The water is warmest in July, around 21 °C at the surface, and coldest in January, around 0 °C. The surface averages 20 °C or more from July to August: comfortable for most swimmers.
The lake usually freezes over for about 180 days a year, from around 22 October to 19 April.
On the shore, afternoons reach 22 °C on average in July and -13 °C in January. The driest month is February (37 mm of rain), the wettest June (101 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 | Ice | — | -13 | -20 | 47 | 14 | 1.4 | 10 |
| February | Ice | — | -11 | -19 | 37 | 12 | 3.4 | 10 |
| March | Ice | — | -3 | -11 | 55 | 12 | 4.4 | 11 |
| April | Ice | — | 3 | -3 | 61 | 12 | 5.9 | 10 |
| May | 8 | 13 | 15 | 5 | 79 | 15 | 7.4 | 9 |
| June | 17 | 20 | 19 | 11 | 101 | 19 | 7.6 | 8 |
| July | 21 | 22 | 22 | 14 | 90 | 18 | 8.5 | 8 |
| August | 20 | 22 | 19 | 11 | 97 | 18 | 5.7 | 8 |
| September | 13 | 17 | 13 | 6 | 82 | 15 | 3.1 | 8 |
| October | 3 | 8 | 4 | -1 | 81 | 16 | 0.8 | 10 |
| November | Ice | — | -5 | -10 | 63 | 15 | 0.2 | 9 |
| December | Ice | — | -12 | -18 | 53 | 15 | 0.4 | 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 3 months before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 166,876 km² of land.
- About 1,634 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
- Its shoreline is 10.3 times longer than a circle of the same area: plenty of bays and inlets.
Around the shore
What's around Kama Reservoir
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 22beaches and swimming spots
- 30campsites
welcome to the forest and 29 more
- 1boat hire and water-sport clubs
- 22marinas and slipways
Pristan' Chermoz, Pristan' Nizhniy Lukh, Pristan' Sen'kino, Pristan' Ust'-Garevaya and 18 more
- 27ferry piers
- 9viewpoints
Observation deck on the Mutnaya river and 8 more
- 10hotels, B&Bs and chalets
- 1fishing spots
- 27restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Dobryanka33,291 people
- Polazna12,973 people
- Novyye Lyady9,050 people
- Sylva7,655 people
- Usol’ye5,400 people
- Chermoz4,079 people
- Pozhva3,677 people
- Maykor3,236 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Perm International Airport (PEE), 105 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 | -13.3 | -11.4 | -3.4 | 3.2 | 14.9 | 19.1 | 22.1 | 18.9 | 12.6 | 3.5 | -5.4 | -11.9 |
| 2020 | +5.3 | +6.4 | +2.7 | −0.7 | +0.5 | −1.6 | +2.1 | −1.1 | ±0.0 | +1.4 | −0.6 | −0.3 |
| 2021 | −0.4 | −5.5 | −2.1 | +1.9 | +3.9 | +3.2 | +0.1 | +2.2 | −2.9 | +1.1 | +1.6 | +0.7 |
| 2022 | +0.9 | +5.5 | −1.9 | +0.3 | −3.2 | −0.9 | +1.9 | +4.2 | −0.7 | +1.5 | −3.6 | −0.3 |
| 2023 | ±0.0 | +2.2 | +1.9 | +3.4 | +3.7 | −1.8 | +0.9 | +1.8 | +3.8 | +1.3 | +2.3 | −2.1 |
| 2024 | −1.6 | +0.7 | +1.2 | +2.9 | −6.0 | +2.6 | +0.4 | −0.4 | +3.8 | +0.9 | +1.8 | +4.6 |
| 2025 | +5.6 | +3.2 | +1.6 | +1.9 | −0.1 | +1.7 | −2.0 | +1.0 | +0.7 | +1.9 | +4.7 | +1.2 |
+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 (Q631189) · 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.
