Lake · Italy
Lago di Caldonazzo
Lake in Trentino-South Tyrol, Italy
- Area
- 5.1km²
- Max depth
- 49m
- Average depth
- 23m
- Elevation
- 446m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 11km
- Volume
- 0.115km³
Lago di Caldonazzo is a lake in Italy. It covers 5.1 km². On average it is 23 m deep, and 49 m at its deepest point. Its surface lies 446 m above sea level.
Plan your visit
Stay, sail and get there
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The water
How warm is Lago di Caldonazzo?
The water is warmest in July, around 25 °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 23 °C on average in July and 1 °C in January. The driest month is January (38 mm of rain), the wettest November (109 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (174 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 | 1 | -7 | 38 | 6 | 4.5 | 6 |
| February | 4 | 6 | 3 | -6 | 50 | 6 | 5.6 | 6 |
| March | 8 | 10 | 7 | -2 | 57 | 8 | 6.6 | 6 |
| April | 13 | 16 | 12 | 2 | 78 | 13 | 6.1 | 6 |
| May | 18 | 21 | 16 | 7 | 106 | 16 | 6.1 | 6 |
| June | 23 | 24 | 21 | 11 | 97 | 16 | 7.4 | 5 |
| July | 25 | 25 | 23 | 13 | 98 | 16 | 8.0 | 5 |
| August | 24 | 25 | 22 | 13 | 109 | 15 | 7.2 | 5 |
| September | 21 | 23 | 18 | 8 | 92 | 12 | 6.3 | 5 |
| October | 16 | 19 | 13 | 4 | 99 | 11 | 5.1 | 5 |
| November | 11 | 14 | 7 | 0 | 109 | 10 | 3.6 | 5 |
| December | 6 | 8 | 2 | -6 | 58 | 8 | 3.7 | 6 |
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 20 months before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 144 km² of land.
- About 2.2 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
Around the shore
What's around Lago di Caldonazzo
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 22beaches and swimming spots
Beach Camping Spiaggia, Spiaggia Augsburgerhof and 20 more
- 13campsites
Lago Levico Camping Village, Camping Riviera, Camping Spiaggia, Fleiola, Caldonazzo Family Collection and 8 more
- 5boat hire and water-sport clubs
Associazione Velica Trentina, Centro Nautico Ekon A.S.D., AVT associazione velica trentina
- 4marinas and slipways
- —ferry piers
- 11viewpoints
Belvedere - "Croz de l'Anza Rossa" and 10 more
- 24hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Hotel Bar Rubino, Albergo San Cristoforo, Micamada, Meridiana, Albergo Valcanover and 19 more
- —fishing spots
- 35restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Pergine Valsugana11,538 people
- Caldonazzo2,946 people
- Calceranica al Lago1,212 people
- Vattaro868 people
- Tenna845 people
- Bosentino-Migazzone728 people
- Vignola20 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Bolzano Airport (BZO), 50 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 | 1.2 | 2.8 | 7.3 | 11.9 | 16.2 | 20.6 | 22.8 | 22.4 | 17.9 | 12.9 | 7.0 | 2.0 |
| 2020 | +2.7 | +3.2 | −0.1 | +1.6 | +0.6 | −1.4 | −0.1 | +0.5 | +0.9 | −1.4 | +1.8 | −1.3 |
| 2021 | −2.7 | −0.7 | ±0.0 | −2.4 | −1.9 | +1.0 | −0.7 | −0.6 | +1.5 | −0.4 | +0.3 | −0.2 |
| 2022 | +1.8 | +2.6 | +0.1 | −0.6 | +1.7 | +3.1 | +3.7 | +1.6 | −0.5 | +3.9 | +1.3 | +0.5 |
| 2023 | +1.3 | +3.2 | +1.8 | −1.0 | −0.5 | +0.3 | +0.4 | +1.5 | +3.4 | +3.7 | ±0.0 | +2.3 |
| 2024 | +2.1 | +3.9 | +1.2 | +0.6 | −1.1 | −0.3 | +0.8 | +2.6 | −0.6 | +0.9 | +1.0 | +1.6 |
| 2025 | +1.4 | +1.4 | +1.3 | +1.4 | −0.2 | +2.9 | −1.0 | +0.1 | +0.4 | −0.5 | −0.5 | +2.6 |
+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 (Q1026494) · 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.
