Lake · Mexico
Lake Cuitzeo
Lake in Michoacán State, Mexico
- Area
- 208km²
- Average depth
- 8.7m
- Elevation
- 1,831m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 159km
- Volume
- 1.8km³
Lake Cuitzeo is a lake in Mexico. It covers 208 km². On average it is 8.7 m deep. Its surface lies 1,831 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 30 °C on average in May and 22 °C in January. The driest month is April (5 mm of rain), the wettest July (180 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 | — | — | 22 | 6 | 10 | 2 | 8.8 | 9 |
| February | — | — | 24 | 7 | 16 | 2 | 9.7 | 9 |
| March | — | — | 27 | 9 | 14 | 2 | 10.8 | 10 |
| April | — | — | 30 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 11.1 | 10 |
| May | — | — | 30 | 14 | 38 | 8 | 10.4 | 9 |
| June | — | — | 27 | 14 | 127 | 21 | 9.1 | 8 |
| July | — | — | 24 | 13 | 180 | 27 | 8.6 | 7 |
| August | — | — | 24 | 13 | 164 | 26 | 8.7 | 7 |
| September | — | — | 23 | 12 | 137 | 22 | 7.8 | 8 |
| October | — | — | 23 | 10 | 49 | 11 | 8.7 | 9 |
| November | — | — | 22 | 8 | 14 | 3 | 9.1 | 8 |
| December | — | — | 22 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 8.9 | 8 |
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 2.7 years before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 3,959 km² of land.
- About 21 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
- Its shoreline is 3.1 times longer than a circle of the same area: plenty of bays and inlets.
Around the shore
What's around Lake Cuitzeo
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 4beaches and swimming spots
- —campsites
- —boat hire and water-sport clubs
- —marinas and slipways
- —ferry piers
- —viewpoints
- —hotels, B&Bs and chalets
- —fishing spots
- 2restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Cuitzeo del Porvenir10,239 people
- Santa Ana Maya7,087 people
- Huandacareo6,736 people
- Mariano Escobedo3,880 people
- San Agustín del Pulque3,561 people
- Copándaro de Galeana3,112 people
- San Juan Benito Juárez (San Juan Tararameo)2,613 people
- Cuamio2,180 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: General Francisco J. Mujica International Airport (MLM), 20 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 | 21.5 | 24.1 | 26.8 | 29.7 | 30.0 | 27.2 | 24.0 | 23.9 | 23.3 | 23.4 | 22.4 | 21.6 |
| 2020 | +0.4 | +1.4 | +2.3 | +1.4 | +0.3 | +1.2 | +1.5 | +0.3 | +1.0 | +1.9 | +2.2 | +1.4 |
| 2021 | +2.2 | +2.0 | +2.9 | +1.1 | ±0.0 | −2.0 | ±0.0 | −0.7 | −0.6 | −0.1 | −0.2 | +1.4 |
| 2022 | +1.2 | +0.8 | +1.7 | +1.4 | +2.7 | −0.2 | +0.9 | +0.3 | +0.8 | +1.3 | +2.1 | +1.1 |
| 2023 | +1.9 | +1.8 | +1.9 | +0.3 | −0.2 | +5.1 | +3.5 | +1.8 | +3.8 | +1.4 | +2.2 | −1.1 |
| 2024 | +1.1 | +1.5 | +2.6 | +1.8 | +5.0 | +3.0 | +0.9 | ±0.0 | +0.1 | −0.3 | +1.8 | +0.7 |
| 2025 | +0.8 | +1.4 | +1.9 | +0.7 | +0.2 | −2.7 | −0.8 | +0.6 | +0.7 | +1.0 | +1.4 | +0.7 |
+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 (Q81291) · 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.
