Reservoir · Spain
La Serena Reservoir
Reservoir in Esparragosa de Lares
- Area
- 93.1km²
- Average depth
- 35m
- Elevation
- 340m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 330km
- Volume
- 3.2km³
La Serena Reservoir is a reservoir in Spain. It covers 93.1 km². On average it is 35 m deep. Its surface lies 340 m above sea level.
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Stay, sail and get there
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The water
How warm is La Serena Reservoir?
The water is warmest in July, around 28 °C at the surface, and coldest in January, around 10 °C. The surface averages 20 °C or more from May to October: comfortable for most swimmers.
It does not normally freeze in winter.
On the shore, afternoons reach 36 °C on average in July and 11 °C in January. The driest month is July (2 mm of rain), the wettest October (62 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (187 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 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 1 | 38 | 8 | 5.2 | 13 |
| February | 10 | 11 | 13 | 2 | 40 | 7 | 6.4 | 14 |
| March | 13 | 15 | 16 | 4 | 54 | 7 | 7.4 | 14 |
| April | 17 | 19 | 20 | 7 | 49 | 9 | 8.6 | 14 |
| May | 22 | 24 | 25 | 11 | 32 | 8 | 10.2 | 12 |
| June | 26 | 27 | 32 | 16 | 10 | 3 | 12.2 | 12 |
| July | 28 | 28 | 36 | 19 | 2 | 1 | 13.3 | 12 |
| August | 28 | 28 | 35 | 19 | 7 | 1 | 11.8 | 12 |
| September | 26 | 27 | 30 | 16 | 24 | 5 | 9.4 | 11 |
| October | 21 | 24 | 23 | 11 | 62 | 8 | 7.0 | 12 |
| November | 16 | 18 | 15 | 5 | 54 | 8 | 5.6 | 13 |
| December | 12 | 13 | 12 | 2 | 46 | 8 | 5.1 | 13 |
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 4.6 years before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 7,426 km² of land.
- About 22 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
- Its shoreline is 9.7 times longer than a circle of the same area: plenty of bays and inlets.
Around the shore
What's around La Serena Reservoir
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 5beaches and swimming spots
Playa Los Llanos, Playa Isla del Zújar, Playa de agua dulce Galizuela
- 1campsites
- —boat hire and water-sport clubs
- 4marinas and slipways
- —ferry piers
- 3viewpoints
Mirador Celeste de Galizuela
- 16hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Casa Rural de las Aves, Casa Rural de las Regatas, Casa Rural Isla del Zújar and 13 more
- —fishing spots
- 4restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Peñalsordo1,379 people
- Esparragosa de Lares1,054 people
- Capilla192 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Córdoba Airport (ODB), 114 km in a straight line.
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Photos
Seen by visitors
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 | 10.9 | 12.7 | 16.2 | 19.7 | 25.1 | 32.0 | 35.9 | 35.2 | 29.6 | 22.7 | 15.2 | 11.8 |
| 2020 | +0.4 | +4.0 | +1.3 | −1.4 | +1.6 | −1.3 | +3.1 | −0.3 | −0.1 | −0.9 | +2.4 | −0.5 |
| 2021 | −1.7 | +1.8 | +1.6 | +0.4 | +1.0 | −0.4 | −0.2 | +0.5 | −1.5 | +1.2 | −1.2 | +2.1 |
| 2022 | +1.8 | +3.6 | −0.6 | −0.7 | +3.5 | +1.4 | +3.7 | +1.6 | −0.6 | +3.2 | +2.5 | +2.7 |
| 2023 | +0.2 | +0.6 | +2.8 | +6.2 | +1.1 | −0.3 | +1.4 | +2.0 | −1.3 | +2.2 | +1.6 | +0.8 |
| 2024 | +2.8 | +2.2 | −0.5 | +1.4 | +0.4 | −1.1 | +1.7 | +2.5 | −0.5 | −0.9 | +2.7 | +1.3 |
| 2025 | +1.5 | +1.9 | −1.9 | −0.6 | −0.8 | +3.0 | +1.1 | +2.4 | +0.9 | +2.8 | +0.1 | −0.6 |
+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 (Q3373806) · 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.
