Reservoir · Ukraine
Kremenchuk Reservoir
Reservoir in Ukraine
- Area
- 1,849km²
- Average depth
- 7.3m
- Elevation
- 77m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 663km
- Volume
- 13.5km³
Kremenchuk Reservoir is a reservoir in Ukraine. It covers 1,849 km². On average it is 7.3 m deep. Its surface lies 77 m above sea level.
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The water
How warm is Kremenchuk Reservoir?
The water is warmest in July, around 25 °C at the surface, and coldest in January, around 0 °C. The surface averages 20 °C or more from June to August: comfortable for most swimmers.
The lake usually freezes over for about 69 days a year, from around 21 December to 27 February.
On the shore, afternoons reach 29 °C on average in August and -3 °C in January. The driest month is April (32 mm of rain), the wettest June (71 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (145 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 | Ice | — | -3 | -9 | 47 | 10 | 1.7 | 17 |
| February | Ice | — | -1 | -8 | 38 | 8 | 3.0 | 17 |
| March | 2 | 5 | 6 | -3 | 43 | 10 | 4.9 | 18 |
| April | 9 | 12 | 15 | 4 | 32 | 8 | 7.1 | 16 |
| May | 16 | 19 | 22 | 11 | 60 | 12 | 8.9 | 14 |
| June | 22 | 24 | 26 | 15 | 71 | 12 | 9.7 | 15 |
| July | 25 | 25 | 29 | 18 | 66 | 11 | 9.6 | 13 |
| August | 23 | 25 | 29 | 17 | 34 | 7 | 9.2 | 14 |
| September | 19 | 22 | 22 | 11 | 52 | 8 | 6.4 | 15 |
| October | 13 | 16 | 13 | 4 | 46 | 8 | 3.9 | 16 |
| November | 6 | 9 | 5 | -1 | 40 | 8 | 1.0 | 16 |
| December | 1 | 3 | 0 | -6 | 46 | 8 | 0.8 | 17 |
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 388,064 km² of land.
- About 1,619 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
- Its shoreline is 4.3 times longer than a circle of the same area: plenty of bays and inlets.
Around the shore
What's around Kremenchuk Reservoir
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 49beaches and swimming spots
Kazbet Beach and 48 more
- 3campsites
- 1boat hire and water-sport clubs
- 7marinas and slipways
- —ferry piers
- 12viewpoints
Look place on Dnipro river, Sand dunes of Khudyaki and 10 more
- 5fishing spots
Towns on the shore
- Cherkasy269,836 people
- Svitlovodsk43,130 people
- Sloboda9,333 people
- Vlasivka7,587 people
- Hradyzk6,248 people
- Blahodatne3,331 people
- Tinky2,255 people
- Maksymivka2,052 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Gomel Airport (GME), 386 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 | -2.9 | -0.9 | 5.9 | 14.6 | 21.7 | 26.0 | 28.8 | 28.8 | 22.0 | 13.4 | 5.3 | -0.5 |
| 2020 | +4.6 | +4.4 | +4.5 | −0.7 | −3.4 | +1.2 | +0.8 | +0.3 | +3.8 | +4.0 | −0.1 | ±0.0 |
| 2021 | +2.0 | −2.7 | −1.0 | −2.5 | −1.7 | −0.6 | +3.0 | +1.3 | −2.3 | −0.4 | +2.3 | +0.8 |
| 2022 | +2.2 | +4.2 | −0.3 | −1.1 | −2.4 | +1.3 | −1.2 | +0.3 | −3.8 | +0.3 | +0.1 | +1.2 |
| 2023 | +2.8 | +1.9 | +2.4 | −1.5 | −1.9 | −1.3 | −1.2 | +1.2 | +3.1 | +2.5 | +1.5 | +0.9 |
| 2024 | +1.7 | +4.5 | +1.6 | +3.4 | −1.6 | +0.7 | +3.7 | +2.1 | +5.0 | +2.5 | −0.3 | +1.2 |
| 2025 | +5.2 | −0.3 | +4.9 | +1.3 | −2.3 | −0.6 | +2.0 | −0.7 | +1.2 | −0.6 | +3.6 | +1.6 |
+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual
Nearby
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| 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 (Q1431500) · 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.
