Lake · Switzerland
Katzensee
Lake in canton of Zürich, Switzerland
- Area
- 0.1km²
- Average depth
- 2.9m
- Elevation
- 440m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 1.6km
- Volume
- 0.000km³
Katzensee is a lake in Switzerland. It covers 0.1 km². On average it is 2.9 m deep. Its surface lies 440 m above sea level.
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Stay, sail and get there
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The water
How warm is Katzensee?
The water is warmest in July, around 26 °C at the surface, and coldest in January, around 1 °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 23 °C on average in July and 2 °C in January. The driest month is February (74 mm of rain), the wettest August (146 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (101 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 | 1 | 2 | 2 | -4 | 94 | 13 | 2.5 | 12 |
| February | 3 | 5 | 4 | -4 | 74 | 12 | 3.7 | 12 |
| March | 8 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 92 | 14 | 5.3 | 13 |
| April | 14 | 17 | 14 | 4 | 91 | 14 | 6.5 | 11 |
| May | 20 | 22 | 18 | 8 | 141 | 18 | 6.7 | 11 |
| June | 24 | 26 | 22 | 13 | 139 | 18 | 8.0 | 10 |
| July | 26 | 27 | 23 | 14 | 144 | 17 | 8.1 | 10 |
| August | 26 | 27 | 23 | 14 | 146 | 16 | 7.3 | 9 |
| September | 21 | 24 | 18 | 10 | 103 | 14 | 6.0 | 9 |
| October | 15 | 18 | 14 | 6 | 100 | 13 | 4.2 | 10 |
| November | 8 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 87 | 13 | 2.4 | 10 |
| December | 3 | 5 | 3 | -3 | 102 | 15 | 2.0 | 11 |
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 2 km² of land.
- About 0.1 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
Around the shore
What's around Katzensee
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
- 1viewpoints
Rebhaus
- 4hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Mövenpick Regensdorf, Thessoni home, Garni-Geissberg, Thessoni classic Zürich
- —fishing spots
- 20restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Zürich (Kreis 11)54,260 people
- Zürich (Kreis 10)36,216 people
- Zürich (Kreis 11) / Affoltern17,241 people
- Zürich (Kreis 10) / Höngg17,117 people
- Regensdorf7,531 people
- Oberengstringen5,805 people
- Zürich (Kreis 10) / Rütihof3,326 people
- Oberengstringen / Sonnenberg1,477 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Zürich Airport (ZRH), 5 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 | 2.3 | 3.7 | 8.7 | 13.8 | 17.7 | 21.6 | 23.2 | 22.6 | 18.5 | 14.0 | 7.7 | 3.1 |
| 2020 | +2.3 | +4.2 | +0.2 | +3.0 | +0.2 | −1.7 | +0.5 | +0.7 | +1.4 | −1.2 | +1.4 | −0.2 |
| 2021 | −1.7 | +3.2 | ±0.0 | −2.4 | −3.3 | +1.5 | −1.2 | −1.6 | +1.7 | −0.4 | −2.2 | ±0.0 |
| 2022 | +0.9 | +2.4 | +2.2 | −0.9 | +2.0 | +2.5 | +1.8 | +1.6 | −0.6 | +4.3 | +2.0 | +1.0 |
| 2023 | +1.9 | +2.4 | +1.7 | −2.1 | ±0.0 | +2.5 | +1.1 | +1.3 | +4.5 | +3.5 | +0.1 | +2.2 |
| 2024 | +1.6 | +5.1 | +2.6 | ±0.0 | −0.1 | ±0.0 | +1.1 | +2.4 | ±0.0 | +1.8 | +0.2 | +0.5 |
| 2025 | +1.4 | +1.8 | +2.0 | +1.6 | ±0.0 | +3.0 | −0.6 | +1.2 | +0.1 | −0.9 | −0.2 | +2.0 |
+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual
Nearby
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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 (Q672290) · 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.
