Lagoon · Brazil
Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas
Lagoon Rodrigo de Freitas in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Area
- 2.2km²
- Average depth
- 7.1m
- Elevation
- 6m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 7.4km
- Volume
- 0.016km³
Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas is a lagoon in Brazil. It covers 2.2 km². On average it is 7.1 m deep. Its surface lies 6 m above sea level.
Plan your visit
Stay, sail and get there
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The water
How warm is Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas?
The water is warmest in January, around 31 °C at the surface, and coldest in July, around 22 °C. The surface averages 20 °C or more from January to December: comfortable for most swimmers.
It does not normally freeze in winter.
On the shore, afternoons reach 28 °C on average in February and 24 °C in July. The driest month is August (42 mm of rain), the wettest December (232 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (75 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 | 31 | 31 | 28 | 23 | 208 | 22 | 6.5 | 12 |
| February | 30 | 31 | 28 | 23 | 152 | 16 | 7.4 | 12 |
| March | 29 | 30 | 28 | 23 | 173 | 20 | 6.6 | 11 |
| April | 27 | 28 | 27 | 22 | 100 | 14 | 6.7 | 12 |
| May | 24 | 25 | 25 | 20 | 71 | 12 | 6.0 | 13 |
| June | 22 | 23 | 24 | 19 | 49 | 8 | 6.3 | 12 |
| July | 22 | 22 | 24 | 18 | 45 | 8 | 6.4 | 14 |
| August | 23 | 24 | 25 | 18 | 42 | 8 | 6.7 | 14 |
| September | 24 | 25 | 25 | 19 | 69 | 12 | 5.9 | 15 |
| October | 26 | 27 | 26 | 20 | 108 | 15 | 5.6 | 14 |
| November | 28 | 29 | 26 | 21 | 220 | 20 | 5.0 | 13 |
| December | 30 | 30 | 27 | 22 | 232 | 22 | 5.9 | 12 |
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 14 months before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 21 km² of land.
- About 0.4 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
Around the shore
What's around Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 7beaches and swimming spots
Point Cap Ferrat, Cossetti's Playgroung, Praia do Leblon, Praia de Ipanema, Praia do Arpoador and 2 more
- —campsites
- 6boat hire and water-sport clubs
Clube de Regatas do Flamengo, Clube de Remo Vasco da Gama, Clube de Remo Botafogo, Estádio da Lagoa, Pedalinho da Lagoa and 1 more
- 2marinas and slipways
Garagem de Barcos- Botafogo
- 2ferry piers
- 6viewpoints
Mirante da Paz, Mirante do Sacopã, Mirante do Urubu, Peixote viewpoint and 2 more
- 82hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Copacabana Praia Hotel, The Mango Tree, Lemon Spirit, Fairmont Rio de Janeiro Copacabana, Atlantis Hotel Copacabana and 77 more
- —fishing spots
- 324restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Copacabana128,919 people
- Botafogo82,890 people
- Leblon37,709 people
- Ipanema37,392 people
- Vidigal15,112 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Santos Dumont Airport (SDU), 8 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 | 28.2 | 28.4 | 27.7 | 26.6 | 24.8 | 24.3 | 24.0 | 24.7 | 25.3 | 26.0 | 26.1 | 27.2 |
| 2020 | −0.7 | −1.2 | −1.6 | −1.5 | −0.6 | +0.8 | +0.5 | −0.3 | +1.6 | +0.1 | −1.0 | −0.3 |
| 2021 | −0.1 | −1.5 | +0.3 | −1.2 | −0.3 | −0.8 | −1.2 | ±0.0 | +0.4 | −1.6 | −1.5 | −1.2 |
| 2022 | −0.8 | −1.3 | +0.7 | −0.6 | −0.3 | −1.3 | +1.2 | −0.7 | −1.7 | +0.4 | −0.9 | −1.1 |
| 2023 | −1.1 | +0.3 | +0.2 | −0.9 | −0.5 | +0.1 | ±0.0 | +0.7 | +2.7 | +1.0 | +3.0 | +1.3 |
| 2024 | +0.3 | +0.2 | ±0.0 | +0.4 | +2.9 | +2.6 | +0.4 | +1.1 | +2.8 | +0.1 | ±0.0 | +0.2 |
| 2025 | −0.4 | +1.2 | +0.4 | −0.6 | +0.5 | +0.3 | −1.3 | −0.7 | ±0.0 | −0.7 | −0.2 | +2.1 |
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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 (Q429897) · 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.
