Lake · France
Lac d'Aiguebelette
French lake
- Area
- 5.2km²
- Max depth
- 71m
- Average depth
- 19m
- Elevation
- 375m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 14km
- Volume
- 0.098km³
Lac d'Aiguebelette is a lake in France. It covers 5.2 km². On average it is 19 m deep, and 71 m at its deepest point. Its surface lies 375 m above sea level.
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The water
How warm is Lac d'Aiguebelette?
The water is warmest in July, around 26 °C at the surface, and coldest in January, around 4 °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 25 °C on average in July and 4 °C in January. The driest month is February (62 mm of rain), the wettest November (97 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (63 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 | 4 | 4 | 4 | -3 | 79 | 12 | 2.6 | 8 |
| February | 4 | 4 | 6 | -2 | 62 | 10 | 4.0 | 9 |
| March | 6 | 8 | 10 | 1 | 74 | 11 | 5.8 | 9 |
| April | 11 | 14 | 15 | 4 | 69 | 12 | 6.9 | 9 |
| May | 17 | 20 | 18 | 8 | 97 | 14 | 7.4 | 9 |
| June | 23 | 25 | 23 | 12 | 77 | 13 | 9.4 | 8 |
| July | 26 | 26 | 25 | 14 | 72 | 12 | 9.8 | 8 |
| August | 25 | 26 | 25 | 14 | 76 | 10 | 8.7 | 7 |
| September | 21 | 23 | 20 | 10 | 70 | 10 | 7.0 | 7 |
| October | 16 | 18 | 16 | 6 | 89 | 12 | 4.7 | 8 |
| November | 10 | 13 | 9 | 2 | 97 | 13 | 2.9 | 8 |
| December | 6 | 8 | 5 | -2 | 86 | 12 | 2.3 | 8 |
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 2.4 years before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 68 km² of land.
- About 1.3 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
Around the shore
What's around Lac d'Aiguebelette
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 20beaches and swimming spots
Plage intercommunale de la base de loisirs du Sougey, "La Crique" - Nances, Plage de Pré-Argent, Plage municipale d’Aiguebelette-le-Lac, Plage de Pré Argent and 15 more
- 11campsites
Camping Le Mont Grêle, Le Curtelet, Camping Les Peupliers, Camping Ferrand, Camping de l'Arbaz and 6 more
- 4boat hire and water-sport clubs
Plage du port, Vertes Sensations, Base Départementale d'Aviron
- 6marinas and slipways
Port de plaisance, Port de Lépin le Lac plage, Port de Lépin le Lac Pomarin and 3 more
- —ferry piers
- 20viewpoints
Le Reposoir, Rocher du Corbeau, Belvédère des Voies de l'Épine, Belvédère de la Drayère and 16 more
- 3hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Saint-Alban Plage, Les Lodges du Lac, Les Cimes du Lac
- —fishing spots
- 17restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Novalaise1,554 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Chambéry Aix les Bains airport (CMF), 12 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 | 4.3 | 5.8 | 10.5 | 14.9 | 18.3 | 22.7 | 24.9 | 24.6 | 20.4 | 16.0 | 9.4 | 5.0 |
| 2020 | +2.4 | +4.0 | +1.1 | +2.7 | +1.5 | −2.0 | +0.8 | +1.2 | +1.5 | −2.1 | +2.1 | +0.7 |
| 2021 | −2.3 | +4.0 | +0.3 | −1.9 | −2.4 | +0.6 | −1.6 | −1.6 | +1.5 | −0.6 | −2.2 | −0.5 |
| 2022 | +0.2 | +2.3 | +2.3 | −0.4 | +3.0 | +3.0 | +3.4 | +3.9 | +0.5 | +4.7 | +2.2 | +1.8 |
| 2023 | +0.7 | +2.7 | +1.7 | −1.2 | ±0.0 | +1.5 | +1.7 | +3.2 | +5.2 | +4.1 | +0.3 | +2.0 |
| 2024 | +1.7 | +4.4 | +2.0 | −0.5 | −0.7 | −0.4 | +0.9 | +2.0 | −1.2 | +1.7 | +1.8 | +0.4 |
| 2025 | +2.2 | +2.5 | +1.4 | +1.5 | +0.6 | +3.7 | −0.3 | +1.9 | −0.6 | −1.0 | +0.4 | +2.6 |
+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual
Nearby
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SwitzerlandAbout 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 (Q1227366) · 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.
