Lake · Nigeria
Lagos Lagoon
Lake in Nigeria
- Area
- 630km²
- Average depth
- 1.5m
- Elevation
- 0m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 401km
- Volume
- 0.946km³
Lagos Lagoon is a lake in Nigeria. It covers 630 km². On average it is 1.5 m deep. Its surface lies 0 m above sea level.
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The water
Water temperature
There is no reliable satellite record of the water temperature for this lake yet.
On the shore, afternoons reach 29 °C on average in February and 27 °C in August. The driest month is December (27 mm of rain), the wettest September (277 mm).
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.
Climate: 1991–2020 average
| Month | Water°C | Water high°C | Air high°C | Air low°C | Rainmm | Rainy daysdays | Sunh/day | Windkm/h |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | — | — | 29 | 23 | 28 | 5 | 6.5 | 8 |
| February | — | — | 29 | 25 | 33 | 8 | 5.5 | 9 |
| March | — | — | 29 | 26 | 74 | 17 | 5.5 | 10 |
| April | — | — | 29 | 26 | 133 | 22 | 5.7 | 10 |
| May | — | — | 28 | 26 | 203 | 26 | 5.2 | 9 |
| June | — | — | 28 | 25 | 266 | 28 | 3.6 | 11 |
| July | — | — | 27 | 24 | 236 | 26 | 3.3 | 12 |
| August | — | — | 27 | 23 | 134 | 20 | 3.7 | 12 |
| September | — | — | 27 | 24 | 277 | 27 | 3.8 | 11 |
| October | — | — | 28 | 24 | 221 | 26 | 5.1 | 9 |
| November | — | — | 29 | 25 | 80 | 14 | 6.6 | 8 |
| December | — | — | 29 | 24 | 27 | 4 | 6.9 | 7 |
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 12 days before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 48,160 km² of land.
- About 877 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
- Its shoreline is 4.5 times longer than a circle of the same area: plenty of bays and inlets.
Around the shore
What's around Lagos Lagoon
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 1beaches and swimming spots
Lagoon Front Resort
- —campsites
- —boat hire and water-sport clubs
- —marinas and slipways
- 31ferry piers
eyin osa, Badore Ferry Terminal, Bayeku Ferry Terminal, Ilaje Waterfront Jetty Terminal Bariga, Oworonsoki Jetty and 26 more
- —viewpoints
- 27hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Moremi Hall, King Jaja Hall, Mariere Hall, Sun Heaven Hotel Ikoyi, Moremi extension and 22 more
- —fishing spots
- 16restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Lagos15,388,000 people
- Ebute Ikorodu535,619 people
- Lekki401,272 people
- Obalende342,000 people
- Shomolu154,390 people
- Makoko85,840 people
- Epe84,711 people
- Ejirin9,204 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Murtala Muhammed International Airport (LOS), 16 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 | 28.8 | 29.4 | 29.3 | 29.0 | 28.5 | 27.5 | 26.8 | 26.6 | 27.0 | 27.7 | 28.7 | 29.1 |
| 2020 | +0.2 | +0.4 | +0.2 | +0.2 | +0.4 | +0.2 | −0.2 | ±0.0 | ±0.0 | +0.3 | +0.3 | +0.1 |
| 2021 | +0.5 | +0.4 | −0.1 | +0.3 | +0.3 | +0.6 | +0.5 | +0.5 | +0.4 | +0.3 | −0.1 | +0.3 |
| 2022 | ±0.0 | +0.3 | +0.3 | −0.3 | +0.1 | ±0.0 | +0.1 | −0.1 | −0.2 | +0.3 | +0.1 | −0.7 |
| 2023 | +0.1 | +0.3 | ±0.0 | +0.1 | +0.7 | +0.3 | +0.8 | +0.8 | +0.6 | +0.7 | +0.1 | +0.7 |
| 2024 | +1.3 | +0.6 | +0.9 | +1.0 | +1.0 | +1.0 | +0.6 | +0.6 | +0.6 | +0.4 | +0.6 | +0.3 |
| 2025 | +0.4 | +0.3 | +0.5 | +0.6 | +0.5 | +0.8 | +0.1 | −0.1 | +0.3 | +0.2 | +0.5 | −0.2 |
+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual
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TogoAbout 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 (Q499414) · 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.
