Lake · Italy
Lago di Varano
Lake in Italy
- Area
- 64.2km²
- Max depth
- 5m
- Average depth
- 16m
- Elevation
- -4m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 35km
- Volume
- 1.0km³
Lago di Varano is a lake in Italy. It covers 64.2 km². On average it is 16 m deep, and 5 m at its deepest point. Its surface lies 4 m below sea level.
Plan your visit
Stay, sail and get there
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The water
How warm is Lago di Varano?
The water is warmest in July, around 28 °C at the surface, and coldest in January, around 8 °C. The surface averages 20 °C or more from May to September: comfortable for most swimmers.
It does not normally freeze in winter.
On the shore, afternoons reach 28 °C on average in August and 12 °C in January. The driest month is August (29 mm of rain), the wettest November (80 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (193 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 | 8 | 9 | 12 | 8 | 70 | 10 | 3.6 | 19 |
| February | 9 | 10 | 12 | 8 | 54 | 9 | 4.9 | 19 |
| March | 12 | 14 | 14 | 10 | 55 | 9 | 6.8 | 18 |
| April | 16 | 19 | 17 | 12 | 49 | 9 | 8.2 | 15 |
| May | 21 | 23 | 21 | 16 | 38 | 8 | 9.8 | 15 |
| June | 25 | 27 | 25 | 20 | 35 | 6 | 11.2 | 13 |
| July | 28 | 28 | 28 | 23 | 30 | 5 | 11.8 | 14 |
| August | 27 | 28 | 28 | 24 | 29 | 6 | 10.7 | 13 |
| September | 24 | 26 | 24 | 20 | 58 | 9 | 8.3 | 15 |
| October | 19 | 22 | 21 | 16 | 62 | 9 | 6.2 | 15 |
| November | 14 | 17 | 16 | 13 | 80 | 11 | 4.0 | 18 |
| December | 10 | 12 | 13 | 10 | 67 | 12 | 3.4 | 19 |
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 19 years before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 392 km² of land.
- About 1.6 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
Around the shore
What's around Lago di Varano
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 2beaches and swimming spots
Isola di Varano, Foce Varano
- 3campsites
Camping Uria, Mecca Club, Viola Club Village
- —boat hire and water-sport clubs
- —marinas and slipways
- —ferry piers
- 1viewpoints
- 1hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Hotel La Bufalara
- —fishing spots
- 8restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Cagnano Varano7,309 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Foggia Gino Lisa Airport (FOG), 53 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 | 11.8 | 11.9 | 14.0 | 16.7 | 20.7 | 25.2 | 28.1 | 28.3 | 24.4 | 20.6 | 16.5 | 13.1 |
| 2020 | +1.1 | +2.2 | +0.3 | +0.1 | +0.4 | −0.9 | −1.0 | +0.6 | +0.9 | −0.2 | +0.6 | +0.8 |
| 2021 | −0.2 | +0.9 | −1.3 | −1.3 | +0.1 | +0.9 | +1.4 | +1.4 | +1.2 | −0.7 | +0.8 | +0.2 |
| 2022 | +0.2 | +1.1 | −1.6 | −0.9 | +1.6 | +2.4 | +1.2 | +0.1 | +1.0 | +1.3 | +0.9 | +2.1 |
| 2023 | +1.4 | +0.6 | +1.2 | −1.0 | −0.6 | −0.1 | +2.3 | +0.6 | +2.0 | +3.6 | +2.0 | +1.9 |
| 2024 | +1.6 | +2.8 | +2.0 | +2.2 | +1.4 | +2.2 | +2.5 | +2.4 | +1.4 | +1.8 | +0.9 | +0.7 |
| 2025 | +1.9 | +1.2 | +1.3 | +1.0 | +0.7 | +2.9 | +1.3 | +0.1 | +1.7 | −1.1 | −0.1 | +0.7 |
+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 |
|---|---|
| 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 (Q511180) · 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.
