Lagoon · Albania
Karavasta Lagoon
Lagoon in Albania
- Area
- 40.2km²
- Average depth
- 2.5m
- Elevation
- -7m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 35km
- Volume
- 0.101km³
Karavasta Lagoon is a lagoon in Albania. It covers 40.2 km². On average it is 2.5 m deep. Its surface lies 7 m below sea level.
Plan your visit
Stay, sail and get there
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The water
How warm is Karavasta Lagoon?
The water is warmest in July, around 28 °C at the surface, and coldest in January, around 6 °C. The surface averages 20 °C or more from May to September: comfortable for most swimmers.
It does not normally freeze in winter.
On the shore, afternoons reach 29 °C on average in August and 12 °C in January. The driest month is July (25 mm of rain), the wettest December (116 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (115 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 | 6 | 7 | 12 | 8 | 96 | 12 | 3.7 | 16 |
| February | 8 | 10 | 12 | 8 | 85 | 11 | 4.7 | 17 |
| March | 13 | 15 | 15 | 10 | 77 | 11 | 6.2 | 16 |
| April | 18 | 20 | 18 | 12 | 64 | 12 | 7.5 | 12 |
| May | 22 | 24 | 21 | 16 | 60 | 10 | 9.3 | 11 |
| June | 26 | 27 | 26 | 20 | 40 | 7 | 11.2 | 11 |
| July | 28 | 28 | 29 | 23 | 25 | 5 | 12.0 | 11 |
| August | 28 | 28 | 29 | 23 | 25 | 6 | 10.8 | 10 |
| September | 25 | 27 | 26 | 20 | 76 | 10 | 8.2 | 12 |
| October | 19 | 22 | 22 | 17 | 93 | 11 | 6.3 | 13 |
| November | 12 | 15 | 18 | 13 | 112 | 14 | 4.4 | 15 |
| December | 7 | 9 | 13 | 9 | 116 | 14 | 3.6 | 16 |
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 20 months before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 109 km² of land.
- About 1.9 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
Around the shore
What's around Karavasta Lagoon
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 1beaches and swimming spots
- 2campsites
Laguna camping, Piccolo Paradise
- —boat hire and water-sport clubs
- —marinas and slipways
- —ferry piers
- 1viewpoints
Bird watching tower
- 3hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Relax, Hotel Pelikan, Hotel & Restaurant Pelikan
- —fishing spots
- 17restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Divjakë6,713 people
- Remas
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Tirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA), 57 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 | 11.8 | 12.5 | 14.7 | 17.5 | 21.4 | 26.0 | 28.9 | 29.3 | 25.5 | 21.5 | 17.6 | 13.3 |
| 2020 | +0.7 | +1.4 | +0.3 | −0.2 | +0.3 | −1.3 | −0.4 | +0.5 | +2.1 | +0.1 | +0.9 | +2.4 |
| 2021 | +1.3 | +1.3 | −0.7 | −1.4 | −0.5 | +0.5 | +1.3 | +1.7 | +0.7 | −0.2 | +1.4 | +0.3 |
| 2022 | +0.1 | +1.2 | −1.4 | −0.3 | +1.6 | +2.9 | +1.5 | +0.5 | +0.6 | +1.4 | +1.3 | +3.2 |
| 2023 | +2.2 | +0.4 | +0.9 | −0.9 | +0.5 | −0.3 | +1.9 | +0.7 | +2.4 | +3.3 | +1.2 | +1.6 |
| 2024 | +1.7 | +3.1 | +1.5 | +1.9 | +0.7 | +2.1 | +2.5 | +2.2 | +1.2 | +1.0 | +0.6 | +1.0 |
| 2025 | +2.2 | +1.1 | +1.7 | +0.8 | −0.2 | +2.7 | +1.2 | +0.8 | +1.4 | −1.0 | +0.7 | +2.0 |
+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual
Nearby
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Greece37.8 km² · 133 km away25°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 (Q1729043) · 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.
