Reservoir · Myanmar
Kandawgyi Lake
Lake
- Area
- 0.2km²
- Average depth
- 2.2m
- Elevation
- 18m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 2.3km
- Volume
- 0.000km³
Kandawgyi Lake is a reservoir in Myanmar. It covers 0.2 km². On average it is 2.2 m deep. Its surface lies 18 m above sea level.
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The water
How warm is Kandawgyi Lake?
The water is warmest in June, around 32 °C at the surface, and coldest in January, around 27 °C. The surface averages 20 °C or more from January to December: comfortable for most swimmers.
It does not normally freeze in winter.
On the shore, afternoons reach 39 °C on average in April and 30 °C in August. The driest month is February (1 mm of rain), the wettest July (280 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (72 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 | 27 | 28 | 33 | 18 | 8 | 1 | 8.9 | 9 |
| February | 28 | 29 | 36 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 9.5 | 10 |
| March | 30 | 31 | 38 | 22 | 16 | 2 | 9.2 | 11 |
| April | 32 | 32 | 39 | 26 | 24 | 4 | 9.0 | 12 |
| May | 32 | 32 | 35 | 26 | 127 | 15 | 6.0 | 13 |
| June | 32 | 32 | 32 | 25 | 225 | 21 | 3.3 | 15 |
| July | 32 | 32 | 30 | 25 | 280 | 22 | 2.5 | 15 |
| August | 32 | 32 | 30 | 24 | 246 | 23 | 2.4 | 14 |
| September | 31 | 32 | 30 | 24 | 164 | 18 | 4.6 | 11 |
| October | 31 | 31 | 31 | 24 | 118 | 12 | 6.9 | 9 |
| November | 29 | 30 | 32 | 22 | 20 | 3 | 8.7 | 9 |
| December | 28 | 28 | 31 | 19 | 6 | 1 | 8.9 | 9 |
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 18 days before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 4 km² of land.
- About 0.2 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
Around the shore
What's around Kandawgyi Lake
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- —beaches and swimming spots
- —campsites
- —boat hire and water-sport clubs
- —marinas and slipways
- —ferry piers
- 7viewpoints
amazing views to the Shwedagon Pagoda, nice views to Karaweik Palace, sunset pagoda and baloon, Utopia Tower and 3 more
- 69hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Yuzana Garden Hotel, The Loaft Hotel, Kaunglay In, Kaung Lay Inn, Clover Hotel and 64 more
- —fishing spots
- 199restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Yangon4,477,638 people
- Mingala Tangnyunt132,494 people
- Pazundaung40,690 people
- Botataung36,645 people
- Myenigon18,614 people
- Mahlwagon4,321 people
- Wazu2,913 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Yangon International Airport (RGN), 13 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 | 32.6 | 36.0 | 38.3 | 39.4 | 34.9 | 31.5 | 30.4 | 30.1 | 30.4 | 31.2 | 31.7 | 31.3 |
| 2020 | +2.1 | −0.1 | +0.7 | −0.4 | +1.7 | +0.2 | +0.6 | −0.6 | −0.7 | −1.8 | −0.7 | +0.3 |
| 2021 | +0.2 | −0.5 | +1.6 | −5.3 | −1.4 | −0.5 | −0.8 | −0.6 | −1.3 | −1.3 | −2.0 | −3.1 |
| 2022 | −1.2 | −2.6 | −0.4 | −1.5 | −3.4 | −1.3 | −0.4 | −0.8 | −1.1 | −1.6 | −1.4 | −1.4 |
| 2023 | −1.4 | −0.9 | ±0.0 | +1.3 | +1.1 | +0.6 | ±0.0 | −0.3 | −1.0 | −1.3 | −1.6 | −0.8 |
| 2024 | −0.2 | +0.7 | +1.6 | +1.7 | +1.3 | −1.0 | −0.7 | ±0.0 | −0.4 | −0.2 | −1.7 | −0.3 |
| 2025 | −0.8 | +0.1 | +1.2 | −3.1 | −1.8 | −1.2 | −0.9 | −0.3 | −0.9 | −1.2 | −3.5 | −1.8 |
+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 (Q385991) · 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.
