Lake · Finland
Keurusselkä
Lake in Finland
- Area
- 100km²
- Max depth
- 34m
- Average depth
- 14m
- Elevation
- 105m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 287km
- Volume
- 1.4km³
Keurusselkä is a lake in Finland. It covers 100 km². On average it is 14 m deep, and 34 m at its deepest point. Its surface lies 105 m above sea level.
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The water
Water temperature
There is no reliable satellite record of the water temperature for this lake yet.
On the shore, afternoons reach 21 °C on average in July and -6 °C in January. The driest month is March (42 mm of rain), the wettest July (96 mm).
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.
Climate: 1991–2020 average
| Month | Water°C | Water high°C | Air high°C | Air low°C | Rainmm | Rainy daysdays | Sunh/day | Windkm/h |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | — | — | -6 | -11 | 56 | 14 | 0.5 | 10 |
| February | — | — | -5 | -11 | 44 | 11 | 2.1 | 10 |
| March | — | — | -1 | -8 | 42 | 11 | 5.3 | 10 |
| April | — | — | 7 | -1 | 50 | 11 | 6.5 | 10 |
| May | — | — | 14 | 5 | 65 | 12 | 7.9 | 9 |
| June | — | — | 18 | 10 | 92 | 15 | 8.1 | 9 |
| July | — | — | 21 | 13 | 96 | 16 | 7.7 | 8 |
| August | — | — | 19 | 12 | 84 | 16 | 6.5 | 8 |
| September | — | — | 14 | 7 | 72 | 13 | 3.8 | 9 |
| October | — | — | 6 | 1 | 77 | 15 | 1.5 | 9 |
| November | — | — | 0 | -3 | 69 | 15 | 0.1 | 9 |
| December | — | — | -4 | -8 | 64 | 15 | 0.1 | 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 3.8 years before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 1,244 km² of land.
- About 11 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
- Its shoreline is 8.1 times longer than a circle of the same area: plenty of bays and inlets.
Around the shore
What's around Keurusselkä
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 19beaches and swimming spots
U4, Willalähdesranta, Kolho Swimming Beach, Uimaranta, Isohiekka and 14 more
- 2campsites
Ison Kirjan leirintä, Nyyssänniemen leirintäalue
- —boat hire and water-sport clubs
- 8marinas and slipways
Mäkisen rannan veneluiska, Venesatama, Veneranta, Kurkilahden veneluiska, Ahtolan sataman veneluiska and 3 more
- —ferry piers
- 3viewpoints
Hepoharju
- 14hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Hotelli Keurusselkä, Hotelli Alexander, Mäntän Klubi, Art Hotel Honkahovi, Mäntylä and 9 more
- —fishing spots
- 24restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Keuruu9,088 people
- Mänttä6,459 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Jyväskylä Airport (JYV), 58 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 | -6.3 | -5.4 | -1.0 | 6.8 | 14.3 | 18.2 | 21.2 | 19.2 | 13.7 | 5.9 | 0.3 | -3.5 |
| 2020 | +7.0 | +5.2 | +3.0 | −1.4 | −2.5 | +4.0 | −2.6 | +0.3 | +0.9 | +2.1 | +3.0 | +1.7 |
| 2021 | −2.1 | −3.2 | ±0.0 | +0.2 | −0.9 | +4.5 | +2.5 | −1.3 | −2.8 | +2.0 | +0.1 | −3.5 |
| 2022 | +1.4 | +2.6 | +0.8 | −1.4 | −1.3 | +1.9 | −0.4 | +2.1 | −1.8 | +2.4 | −0.4 | −1.5 |
| 2023 | +2.9 | +2.3 | −1.0 | +0.2 | +0.1 | +2.2 | −1.3 | +0.7 | +3.1 | −1.8 | −4.4 | −4.7 |
| 2024 | −3.0 | −0.1 | +0.5 | −2.7 | +3.9 | +2.5 | +0.2 | +1.3 | +3.0 | +2.6 | +1.5 | +1.8 |
| 2025 | +2.9 | +2.4 | +4.0 | +1.1 | −1.8 | −0.9 | +2.5 | −1.1 | +2.2 | +1.6 | +2.4 | +3.4 |
+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 (Q1476939) · 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.
