Reservoir · Romania
Lake Izvorul Muntelui
Reservoir
- Area
- 19.8km²
- Average depth
- 62m
- Elevation
- 483m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 57km
- Volume
- 1.2km³
Lake Izvorul Muntelui is a reservoir in Romania. It covers 19.8 km². On average it is 62 m deep. Its surface lies 483 m above sea level.
Plan your visit
Stay, sail and get there
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The water
How warm is Lake Izvorul Muntelui?
The water is warmest in July, around 24 °C at the surface, and coldest in February, around 2 °C. The surface averages 20 °C or more from June to August: comfortable for most swimmers.
It does not normally freeze in winter.
On the shore, afternoons reach 26 °C on average in August and 0 °C in January. The driest month is January (28 mm of rain), the wettest June (115 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (129 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 | 4 | 0 | -8 | 28 | 7 | 2.6 | 10 |
| February | 2 | 2 | 2 | -7 | 29 | 7 | 3.6 | 10 |
| March | 4 | 6 | 7 | -3 | 38 | 9 | 5.1 | 10 |
| April | 9 | 12 | 14 | 2 | 52 | 10 | 6.7 | 9 |
| May | 15 | 18 | 20 | 8 | 82 | 14 | 8.1 | 8 |
| June | 21 | 23 | 23 | 12 | 115 | 16 | 8.4 | 7 |
| July | 24 | 24 | 26 | 14 | 99 | 15 | 8.9 | 7 |
| August | 23 | 24 | 26 | 14 | 68 | 12 | 8.6 | 7 |
| September | 19 | 21 | 20 | 8 | 48 | 8 | 6.4 | 8 |
| October | 15 | 17 | 14 | 3 | 54 | 8 | 4.5 | 8 |
| November | 10 | 12 | 7 | -2 | 32 | 7 | 2.2 | 8 |
| December | 6 | 8 | 1 | -6 | 32 | 8 | 1.9 | 9 |
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 10 months before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 4,060 km² of land.
- About 48 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
- Its shoreline is 3.6 times longer than a circle of the same area: plenty of bays and inlets.
Around the shore
What's around Lake Izvorul Muntelui
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- —beaches and swimming spots
- 2campsites
La Doichița -
- —boat hire and water-sport clubs
- 1marinas and slipways
Port Bicaz
- —ferry piers
- 5viewpoints
- 18hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Vila Ecotur, Pensiunea Pescăruș, Lebăda (plutitor), Cristina, Casa Karol and 13 more
- —fishing spots
- 7restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Hangu4,046 people
- Ceahlău2,458 people
- Dodeni2,105 people
- Pângăraţi
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Suceava Ștefan cel Mare International Airport (SCV), 77 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 | -0.3 | 1.7 | 7.2 | 13.7 | 19.6 | 23.2 | 25.5 | 25.6 | 20.2 | 13.7 | 7.4 | 1.2 |
| 2020 | +3.5 | +3.8 | +2.0 | +1.0 | −2.1 | −1.0 | −0.8 | +1.4 | +2.6 | +1.8 | −0.2 | +0.2 |
| 2021 | +1.2 | +1.9 | −2.8 | −2.5 | −1.5 | −1.6 | +1.0 | +0.5 | −1.4 | −1.2 | +2.3 | −0.2 |
| 2022 | +1.0 | +2.9 | −2.3 | −1.1 | +0.7 | +1.9 | +1.8 | ±0.0 | −2.4 | +2.3 | +1.3 | +2.6 |
| 2023 | +5.1 | +0.5 | +2.0 | −3.3 | −2.1 | −0.4 | +1.8 | +2.8 | +3.4 | +4.6 | −0.1 | +3.3 |
| 2024 | +1.9 | +7.3 | +2.4 | +3.6 | −0.1 | +4.0 | +4.2 | +3.5 | +1.5 | +1.8 | −1.0 | +0.9 |
| 2025 | +6.0 | −1.2 | +4.2 | +0.6 | −3.5 | +2.5 | +2.6 | +1.8 | +1.4 | −2.3 | +2.3 | +3.2 |
+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 (Q854060) · 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.
