Glacial lake · Slovenia
Lake Bled
Lake in Slovenia
- Area
- 1.3km²
- Max depth
- 31m
- Average depth
- 14m
- Elevation
- 476m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 5.2km
- Volume
- 0.018km³
Lake Bled is a glacial lake in Slovenia. It covers 1.3 km². On average it is 14 m deep, and 31 m at its deepest point. Its surface lies 476 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 24 °C on average in July and 1 °C in January. The driest month is January (45 mm of rain), the wettest August (125 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 | — | — | 1 | -7 | 45 | 7 | 2.9 | 7 |
| February | — | — | 2 | -6 | 56 | 8 | 4.1 | 7 |
| March | — | — | 7 | -2 | 61 | 9 | 5.3 | 7 |
| April | — | — | 13 | 2 | 71 | 13 | 6.1 | 7 |
| May | — | — | 18 | 6 | 100 | 15 | 6.9 | 6 |
| June | — | — | 22 | 11 | 110 | 16 | 7.9 | 5 |
| July | — | — | 24 | 13 | 114 | 16 | 8.4 | 5 |
| August | — | — | 24 | 12 | 125 | 15 | 7.5 | 5 |
| September | — | — | 18 | 8 | 124 | 13 | 5.6 | 6 |
| October | — | — | 13 | 4 | 94 | 11 | 4.4 | 6 |
| November | — | — | 7 | 0 | 91 | 12 | 2.4 | 6 |
| December | — | — | 2 | -5 | 67 | 9 | 2.3 | 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 2.1 years before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 10 km² of land.
- About 0.3 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
Around the shore
What's around Lake Bled
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 5beaches and swimming spots
Grajsko kopališče, Velika Zaka
- 3campsites
Camping Bled, PZA Bled
- 5boat hire and water-sport clubs
Čolnarna vila bled, Olimpijski veslaški center Bled, Grajska čolnarna
- 12marinas and slipways
Pletnarska marina, Marina for disabled persons, Mala Zaka, Velika Zaka, Blejski otok - Severna stran and 7 more
- 4ferry piers
- 27viewpoints
Mala Osojnica, Lake Viewpoint and 25 more
- 78hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Penzion Mayer, GOSTILNA UNION, Pr'Jožef, Apartma Kristan, Računovodske storitve in oddajanje apartmajev Dijana Briški s.p. and 73 more
- —fishing spots
- 61restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Bled5,181 people
- Zasip1,019 people
- Zgornje Gorje500 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Ljubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU), 32 km in a straight line.
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Photos
Seen by visitors
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 | 0.7 | 2.2 | 7.1 | 12.8 | 17.5 | 21.9 | 24.2 | 23.6 | 18.1 | 12.9 | 6.9 | 1.8 |
| 2020 | +2.7 | +3.3 | −0.1 | +1.8 | −0.8 | −2.0 | −0.6 | −0.2 | +0.6 | −1.1 | +0.7 | −1.3 |
| 2021 | −1.9 | +2.6 | +0.2 | −3.1 | −2.8 | +1.5 | −0.5 | −1.2 | +2.3 | −0.8 | −0.5 | −1.6 |
| 2022 | −0.3 | +1.7 | +0.4 | −1.4 | +1.2 | +2.5 | +2.6 | +1.5 | −0.6 | +4.0 | +0.7 | −0.5 |
| 2023 | +1.3 | −0.3 | +0.9 | −2.4 | −1.5 | +0.2 | −0.6 | −0.7 | +2.5 | +3.5 | +0.3 | +1.9 |
| 2024 | +1.3 | +5.5 | +2.7 | +0.8 | −0.2 | −0.6 | +0.8 | +3.3 | +0.1 | +1.3 | −0.4 | +0.8 |
| 2025 | +2.4 | +0.3 | +1.4 | +1.3 | −0.9 | +3.1 | −0.6 | +1.0 | +1.3 | −0.2 | −0.1 | +2.1 |
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AustriaAbout 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 (Q648902) · 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.
