Lake · Uganda
Lake Bunyonyi
Lake in Western Region, Uganda
- Area
- 44.4km²
- Average depth
- 34m
- Elevation
- 1,946m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 168km
- Volume
- 1.5km³
Lake Bunyonyi is a lake in Uganda. It covers 44.4 km². On average it is 34 m deep. Its surface lies 1,946 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 February and 22 °C in May. The driest month is July (46 mm of rain), the wettest April (193 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 | — | — | 23 | 13 | 100 | 18 | 5.8 | 6 |
| February | — | — | 24 | 13 | 108 | 15 | 6.0 | 7 |
| March | — | — | 24 | 13 | 173 | 24 | 5.4 | 6 |
| April | — | — | 22 | 13 | 193 | 26 | 5.4 | 7 |
| May | — | — | 22 | 12 | 164 | 23 | 6.2 | 7 |
| June | — | — | 22 | 11 | 67 | 10 | 7.1 | 7 |
| July | — | — | 22 | 11 | 46 | 7 | 7.5 | 8 |
| August | — | — | 23 | 12 | 75 | 14 | 6.4 | 8 |
| September | — | — | 23 | 13 | 113 | 18 | 6.1 | 8 |
| October | — | — | 23 | 13 | 160 | 23 | 5.5 | 7 |
| November | — | — | 22 | 13 | 176 | 26 | 5.2 | 6 |
| December | — | — | 23 | 13 | 126 | 21 | 5.5 | 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 17 years before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 388 km² of land.
- About 2.8 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
- Its shoreline is 7.1 times longer than a circle of the same area: plenty of bays and inlets.
Around the shore
What's around Lake Bunyonyi
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- —beaches and swimming spots
- 8campsites
Bunyonyi Overland Resort, Heritage Camp Site Muko, Lake World Travel, Karibu HomeStay, Amasiko Homestay and 3 more
- 1boat hire and water-sport clubs
- 15marinas and slipways
Bugombe Island Gateway, Itambira Landing Site, Katooko Landing Site, Byoona Amagara Landing Site, Bwama Landing Site and 10 more
- 5ferry piers
Sharp Island
- 3viewpoints
Lake Bunyonyi, Buhumba Viewpoint
- 27hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Arcadia Cottages, Birds Nest, Bunyonyi View Gorilla Packers, Bushara Island Camp, Edirisa on Lake Bunyonyi and 22 more
- —fishing spots
- 5restaurants and cafés
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Savannah Airstrip (KHX), 70 km in a straight line.
OpenStreetMap is built by volunteers: when a number is low, it may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.
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 | 23.3 | 24.0 | 23.5 | 22.3 | 21.6 | 21.7 | 22.3 | 23.0 | 23.1 | 22.8 | 22.2 | 22.6 |
| 2020 | −1.0 | −1.2 | −0.8 | −0.2 | +0.2 | −0.9 | −1.9 | −0.6 | −0.3 | −0.4 | −0.3 | −0.4 |
| 2021 | −1.5 | −1.5 | −1.5 | −0.8 | +0.2 | −0.6 | −1.2 | −0.6 | −0.7 | +0.1 | ±0.0 | −0.8 |
| 2022 | −0.8 | −2.0 | −0.2 | −0.2 | −0.1 | −1.1 | −0.9 | −1.4 | −1.6 | −0.6 | −1.0 | −0.8 |
| 2023 | −0.9 | −0.2 | −1.0 | −0.3 | +1.0 | +0.4 | +0.7 | +1.3 | +0.8 | +1.0 | −0.1 | +0.7 |
| 2024 | −0.4 | −0.1 | +0.5 | +0.3 | +1.6 | +1.1 | +1.3 | +1.2 | +1.8 | +0.7 | +0.4 | −0.2 |
| 2025 | −0.2 | +0.9 | +0.6 | +0.7 | +0.5 | +0.5 | +0.5 | −0.2 | +0.8 | +0.7 | +1.2 | +0.9 |
+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual
Rwanda
DR CongoAbout 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 (Q1010056) · 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.
