Lake · Italy
Laguna di Orbetello
Lake in Italy
- Area
- 25.2km²
- Average depth
- 4.8m
- Elevation
- -5m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 42km
- Volume
- 0.121km³
Laguna di Orbetello is a lake in Italy. It covers 25.2 km². On average it is 4.8 m deep. Its surface lies 5 m below sea level.
Plan your visit
Stay, sail and get there
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The water
How warm is Laguna di Orbetello?
The water is warmest in July, around 27 °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 29 °C on average in August and 12 °C in January. The driest month is July (25 mm of rain), the wettest November (106 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (198 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 | 6 | 59 | 8 | 3.7 | 18 |
| February | 10 | 11 | 12 | 6 | 64 | 9 | 5.2 | 19 |
| March | 13 | 15 | 14 | 8 | 65 | 8 | 6.4 | 18 |
| April | 17 | 19 | 18 | 11 | 48 | 9 | 8.0 | 15 |
| May | 21 | 23 | 21 | 14 | 53 | 9 | 9.4 | 14 |
| June | 25 | 27 | 26 | 19 | 31 | 6 | 11.3 | 12 |
| July | 27 | 28 | 29 | 21 | 25 | 4 | 12.1 | 12 |
| August | 27 | 28 | 29 | 22 | 27 | 4 | 10.8 | 12 |
| September | 23 | 25 | 25 | 18 | 70 | 9 | 8.3 | 14 |
| October | 18 | 21 | 21 | 15 | 78 | 10 | 6.1 | 16 |
| November | 13 | 15 | 16 | 12 | 106 | 12 | 4.0 | 18 |
| December | 9 | 11 | 13 | 8 | 81 | 11 | 3.6 | 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 21 years before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 67 km² of land.
- About 0.2 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
Around the shore
What's around Laguna di Orbetello
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 25beaches and swimming spots
Playa Bombonera, Ocugì Cala Galera, Bau Beach (dogs allowed), Santa Liberata, Bagni di Domiziano and 20 more
- 10campsites
Parco Sosta Lanini, Ciro Park, Orbetello Camping Village, Area Sosta Camper Le Miniere, Camping Feniglia and 5 more
- 1boat hire and water-sport clubs
Società Canottieri Orbetello
- 2marinas and slipways
bocche albegna, Porto di Santa Liberata
- —ferry piers
- 4viewpoints
bird watching
- 16hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Park Hotel, San Biagio Relais, Mini Hotel, B&B La Pineta, B&B Casale gli Ulivi and 11 more
- —fishing spots
- 45restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Orbetello5,779 people
- Albinia2,926 people
- Porto Ercole2,676 people
- Orbetello Scalo1,532 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Marina di Campo Airport (EBA), 86 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 | 11.5 | 12.0 | 14.5 | 17.6 | 21.3 | 25.7 | 28.6 | 28.8 | 25.0 | 21.0 | 16.5 | 12.7 |
| 2020 | +1.5 | +2.7 | −0.1 | +0.4 | +1.0 | −0.8 | +0.7 | +1.3 | +1.2 | −1.3 | +0.4 | +0.5 |
| 2021 | −0.3 | +1.6 | ±0.0 | −1.1 | −1.2 | +1.0 | −0.2 | +0.5 | +2.2 | −0.4 | +0.6 | +1.0 |
| 2022 | +0.4 | +2.0 | −0.5 | −0.3 | +2.5 | +3.0 | +3.1 | +1.8 | +1.0 | +2.0 | +1.3 | +2.4 |
| 2023 | +1.0 | +0.7 | +1.2 | −0.6 | +0.7 | +0.6 | +1.7 | +1.0 | +2.4 | +3.5 | +1.7 | +2.1 |
| 2024 | +2.3 | +3.3 | +1.7 | +1.6 | +0.9 | ±0.0 | +2.4 | +3.0 | +0.4 | +1.1 | +1.6 | +0.7 |
| 2025 | +2.2 | +2.1 | +1.3 | +1.2 | +0.9 | +3.5 | +1.0 | +1.0 | +1.2 | +0.5 | +0.4 | +1.7 |
+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 (Q2250521) · 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.
