Reservoir · Malaysia
Kenyir Lake
Reservoir
- Area
- 326km²
- Average depth
- 42m
- Elevation
- 143m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 1,090km
- Volume
- 13.6km³
Kenyir Lake is a reservoir in Malaysia. It covers 326 km². On average it is 42 m deep. Its surface lies 143 m above sea level.
Plan your visit
Stay, sail and get there
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The water
How warm is Kenyir Lake?
The water is warmest in May, around 29 °C at the surface, and coldest in December, around 26 °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 28 °C on average in April and 26 °C in December. The driest month is February (93 mm of rain), the wettest December (535 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (153 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 | 27 | 26 | 20 | 232 | 20 | 4.3 | 5 |
| February | 27 | 28 | 27 | 20 | 93 | 14 | 6.4 | 4 |
| March | 28 | 28 | 28 | 21 | 147 | 18 | 7.1 | 4 |
| April | 29 | 29 | 28 | 22 | 140 | 20 | 7.2 | 3 |
| May | 29 | 29 | 28 | 23 | 166 | 24 | 6.5 | 3 |
| June | 29 | 29 | 28 | 23 | 146 | 22 | 6.5 | 3 |
| July | 28 | 28 | 27 | 22 | 160 | 22 | 6.4 | 3 |
| August | 28 | 28 | 28 | 22 | 179 | 24 | 6.3 | 3 |
| September | 27 | 28 | 28 | 22 | 189 | 26 | 5.9 | 3 |
| October | 27 | 27 | 28 | 22 | 278 | 28 | 4.9 | 3 |
| November | 27 | 27 | 27 | 22 | 469 | 29 | 3.7 | 4 |
| December | 26 | 26 | 26 | 21 | 535 | 27 | 3.0 | 4 |
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 2.7 years before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 2,595 km² of land.
- About 158 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
- Its shoreline is 17.0 times longer than a circle of the same area: plenty of bays and inlets.
Around the shore
What's around Kenyir Lake
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 1beaches and swimming spots
- 2campsites
small stealth campsite
- —boat hire and water-sport clubs
- —marinas and slipways
- —ferry piers
- —viewpoints
- 2hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Petang Island Resort, Lake Kenyir Resort and Spa
- —fishing spots
- 1restaurants and cafés
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Sultan Mahmud Airport (TGG), 67 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 | 26.4 | 27.2 | 28.0 | 28.5 | 28.2 | 27.6 | 27.3 | 27.5 | 27.6 | 27.5 | 26.9 | 26.3 |
| 2020 | +1.1 | +0.2 | +0.8 | +0.1 | +0.2 | −0.2 | +0.2 | +0.2 | +0.3 | +0.1 | +0.1 | +0.2 |
| 2021 | −0.4 | ±0.0 | −0.2 | −0.7 | ±0.0 | +0.1 | +0.1 | −0.1 | +0.3 | +0.7 | −0.1 | +0.2 |
| 2022 | +0.6 | −0.4 | ±0.0 | −0.6 | −0.3 | −0.2 | +0.7 | −0.2 | −0.2 | −0.4 | −0.1 | −0.5 |
| 2023 | −0.5 | −0.5 | −0.2 | +0.4 | +0.6 | +0.4 | +0.6 | +0.6 | +0.2 | +1.0 | +0.1 | +0.4 |
| 2024 | +0.5 | +1.2 | +1.1 | +1.2 | +1.2 | +0.8 | +0.9 | +0.7 | +0.7 | +1.0 | +0.4 | +0.3 |
| 2025 | −0.2 | +0.3 | +0.1 | −0.4 | ±0.0 | +0.4 | +0.8 | +0.1 | +0.3 | +0.4 | −0.1 | +0.5 |
+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual
Nearby
More lakes nearby
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 (Q1420437) · 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.
