Reservoir · Serbia · Romania
Lake Đerdap
Reservoir
- Area
- 119km²
- Average depth
- 22m
- Elevation
- 64m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 205km
- Volume
- 2.5km³
Lake Đerdap is a reservoir in Serbia. It covers 119 km². On average it is 22 m deep. Its surface lies 64 m above sea level.
Plan your visit
Stay, sail and get there
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The water
How warm is Lake Đerdap?
The water is warmest in July, around 25 °C at the surface, and coldest in January, around 2 °C. The surface averages 20 °C or more from June 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 1 °C in January. The driest month is February (51 mm of rain), the wettest May (81 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (63 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 | 2 | 2 | 1 | -6 | 51 | 10 | 2.1 | 11 |
| February | 4 | 5 | 4 | -4 | 51 | 9 | 3.4 | 12 |
| March | 8 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 53 | 10 | 4.8 | 11 |
| April | 13 | 16 | 16 | 5 | 56 | 11 | 6.5 | 10 |
| May | 18 | 21 | 21 | 10 | 81 | 13 | 7.3 | 8 |
| June | 23 | 25 | 26 | 14 | 80 | 13 | 8.5 | 8 |
| July | 25 | 26 | 29 | 16 | 69 | 11 | 9.4 | 7 |
| August | 24 | 25 | 29 | 16 | 58 | 8 | 8.7 | 7 |
| September | 21 | 23 | 23 | 11 | 57 | 8 | 6.2 | 8 |
| October | 15 | 18 | 16 | 5 | 61 | 9 | 4.7 | 9 |
| November | 8 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 55 | 9 | 2.9 | 10 |
| December | 4 | 6 | 2 | -4 | 54 | 10 | 1.8 | 10 |
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 5 days before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 560,682 km² of land.
- About 5,506 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
- Its shoreline is 5.3 times longer than a circle of the same area: plenty of bays and inlets.
Around the shore
What's around Lake Đerdap
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 2beaches and swimming spots
- 6campsites
Danubia, Camping Asin, Drencona Inn, Cazanele Dunarii, Camping Toma and 1 more
- —boat hire and water-sport clubs
- 6marinas and slipways
- 1ferry piers
2 kapetana
- 38viewpoints
Punct de belvedere, Ploce, Veliki Strbac, Mali Prilaz, Sokolovac and 33 more
- 176hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Hotel Meridian, Pensiunea Danubia, Steaua Dunării, Pensiunea Doina, La Ponton and 171 more
- —fishing spots
- 40restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Orşova12,350 people
- Eşelniţa2,994 people
- Donji Milanovac2,410 people
- Berzasca1,619 people
- Gura Văii1,613 people
- Liubcova1,316 people
- Sviniţa1,105 people
- Dubova1,073 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Niš Constantine the Great Airport (INI), 132 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 | 1.0 | 3.5 | 9.7 | 15.9 | 21.0 | 25.6 | 29.0 | 29.1 | 22.9 | 16.0 | 8.9 | 2.4 |
| 2020 | +1.9 | +4.6 | +0.6 | +1.1 | −0.8 | −1.8 | −1.1 | −1.4 | +1.7 | +0.6 | −0.5 | +1.8 |
| 2021 | +1.4 | +3.7 | −1.6 | −3.4 | −1.0 | +2.1 | +2.8 | +0.7 | +0.6 | −2.2 | +0.5 | +0.8 |
| 2022 | +0.9 | +3.2 | −1.3 | −0.8 | +3.3 | +4.0 | +2.4 | +1.2 | −1.0 | +2.6 | +2.3 | +2.7 |
| 2023 | +4.9 | +1.5 | +1.5 | −3.0 | −1.7 | −2.5 | +1.2 | +0.9 | +3.7 | +5.7 | +1.5 | +4.4 |
| 2024 | +3.0 | +7.0 | +3.1 | +3.8 | +0.4 | +5.3 | +4.3 | +4.1 | +2.0 | +2.5 | ±0.0 | +1.3 |
| 2025 | +4.5 | −0.4 | +4.2 | +1.3 | −0.4 | +6.0 | +2.7 | +1.4 | +2.6 | −1.9 | +1.0 | +2.3 |
+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual
Nearby
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| Outline, area, depth, volume | HydroLAKES v1.0 (Messager et al. 2016) · CC BY 4.0 |
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| 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 (Q1313598) · 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.
