Lake · Canada
Lake Manitoba
Lake in Manitoba, Canada
- Area
- 4,751km²
- Max depth
- 7m
- Average depth
- 3.6m
- Elevation
- 245m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 2,111km
- Volume
- 16.9km³
Lake Manitoba is a lake in Canada. It covers 4,751 km². On average it is 3.6 m deep, and 7 m at its deepest point. Its surface lies 245 m above sea level.
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Stay, sail and get there
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The water
How warm is Lake Manitoba?
The water is warmest in July, around 21 °C at the surface, and coldest in January, around 0 °C. The surface averages 20 °C or more from July to August: comfortable for most swimmers.
The lake usually freezes over for about 166 days a year, from around 6 November to 20 April.
On the shore, afternoons reach 26 °C on average in July and -12 °C in January. The driest month is February (18 mm of rain), the wettest June (90 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (142 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 | Ice | — | -12 | -22 | 22 | 6 | 5.2 | 18 |
| February | Ice | — | -10 | -21 | 18 | 5 | 7.9 | 18 |
| March | Ice | — | -1 | -10 | 34 | 7 | 8.6 | 20 |
| April | Ice | — | 9 | 0 | 38 | 7 | 8.5 | 22 |
| May | 8 | 12 | 16 | 8 | 76 | 11 | 8.4 | 22 |
| June | 16 | 20 | 22 | 15 | 90 | 14 | 8.5 | 20 |
| July | 21 | 22 | 26 | 18 | 71 | 12 | 9.9 | 19 |
| August | 21 | 22 | 24 | 16 | 62 | 10 | 8.4 | 19 |
| September | 15 | 19 | 18 | 10 | 55 | 9 | 6.6 | 21 |
| October | 7 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 46 | 8 | 4.4 | 21 |
| November | Ice | — | -1 | -9 | 26 | 7 | 3.0 | 19 |
| December | Ice | — | -10 | -18 | 23 | 6 | 3.3 | 17 |
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 3.2 years before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 79,354 km² of land.
- About 169 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
- Its shoreline is 8.6 times longer than a circle of the same area: plenty of bays and inlets.
Around the shore
What's around Lake Manitoba
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 8beaches and swimming spots
Silver Bay Beach and 7 more
- 16campsites
Shallow Point Campground, Manipogo Campground, Margaret Bruce, Watchorn Provincial Park Campground and 12 more
- —boat hire and water-sport clubs
- 3marinas and slipways
Margaret Bruce
- —ferry piers
- —viewpoints
- 1hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Narrows Sunset Lodge
- —fishing spots
- 1restaurants and cafés
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Winnipeg / James Armstrong Richardson International Airport (YWG), 94 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 | -12.3 | -10.2 | -1.1 | 8.9 | 16.2 | 22.3 | 25.7 | 24.4 | 18.3 | 8.4 | -1.2 | -10.2 |
| 2020 | +2.2 | +2.1 | +1.4 | −3.1 | −0.3 | +1.8 | +1.2 | +1.2 | −1.4 | −2.7 | +0.7 | +3.9 |
| 2021 | +4.9 | −3.4 | +5.7 | −0.3 | +0.2 | +3.2 | +3.2 | +0.1 | +2.2 | +4.2 | +1.5 | −0.5 |
| 2022 | −2.7 | −3.6 | −2.1 | −5.1 | −1.0 | −1.0 | −1.7 | −0.1 | +0.8 | +1.0 | −0.6 | −2.1 |
| 2023 | +1.4 | +1.2 | −3.9 | −2.5 | +3.9 | +3.4 | −1.3 | +0.1 | +2.8 | +1.5 | +0.5 | +6.4 |
| 2024 | +1.5 | +6.2 | −1.8 | +1.8 | −0.1 | −1.7 | +0.1 | +0.3 | +4.6 | +3.5 | +1.2 | +0.5 |
| 2025 | −0.4 | −2.0 | −0.5 | −0.6 | +3.6 | +0.9 | −0.4 | +0.8 | +2.9 | +3.8 | +1.8 | −2.8 |
+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual
Nearby
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United StatesAbout these numbers
| 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 (Q645901) · 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.
