Reservoir · Zimbabwe
Lake Mutirikwe
Reservoir
- Area
- 81.9km²
- Average depth
- 17m
- Elevation
- 1,042m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 202km
- Volume
- 1.4km³
Lake Mutirikwe is a reservoir in Zimbabwe. It covers 81.9 km². On average it is 17 m deep. Its surface lies 1,042 m above sea level.
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Stay, sail and get there
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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 31 °C on average in October and 21 °C in July. The driest month is August (2 mm of rain), the wettest December (147 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 | — | — | 29 | 17 | 112 | 18 | 8.5 | 14 |
| February | — | — | 29 | 17 | 104 | 16 | 8.4 | 14 |
| March | — | — | 28 | 16 | 100 | 14 | 8.0 | 14 |
| April | — | — | 26 | 13 | 49 | 7 | 8.4 | 12 |
| May | — | — | 24 | 10 | 11 | 3 | 9.2 | 12 |
| June | — | — | 22 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 8.5 | 12 |
| July | — | — | 21 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 8.4 | 13 |
| August | — | — | 25 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 9.6 | 14 |
| September | — | — | 29 | 13 | 15 | 3 | 9.5 | 16 |
| October | — | — | 31 | 15 | 28 | 6 | 9.4 | 17 |
| November | — | — | 31 | 17 | 83 | 13 | 8.4 | 15 |
| December | — | — | 29 | 18 | 147 | 18 | 7.8 | 14 |
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 2.8 years before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 3,940 km² of land.
- About 16 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
- Its shoreline is 6.3 times longer than a circle of the same area: plenty of bays and inlets.
Around the shore
What's around Lake Mutirikwe
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- —beaches and swimming spots
- 4campsites
Lake Mutirikwi Campsite, Kyle Nature reserve, Norma Jeane Campsite
- —boat hire and water-sport clubs
- 1marinas and slipways
Kyle Boat Club
- —ferry piers
- —viewpoints
- 7hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Lodges, Clevers Lakeview Resort and Conference Centre (previously known as Norma Jeane L, Clever Lakeview Resort and Conference Centre, Nyuni mountain lodge, Romelda Lakeside Retreat and 2 more
- —fishing spots
- —restaurants and cafés
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport (HRE), 251 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 | 29.1 | 28.8 | 27.6 | 25.8 | 24.1 | 21.7 | 21.3 | 25.2 | 28.9 | 31.0 | 30.7 | 29.3 |
| 2020 | +1.1 | −1.0 | ±0.0 | +0.8 | −0.1 | −0.9 | −0.9 | −0.2 | −1.7 | −0.9 | −0.3 | −2.1 |
| 2021 | −2.0 | −3.0 | −1.3 | −0.1 | −1.8 | −1.1 | −1.3 | −0.8 | −0.5 | −2.1 | +0.3 | +0.3 |
| 2022 | −2.7 | −1.0 | ±0.0 | −2.3 | −2.3 | −3.9 | −1.8 | −1.9 | −2.1 | +0.5 | −2.9 | −0.7 |
| 2023 | −1.6 | −1.7 | −2.1 | +0.8 | +0.7 | +3.1 | −0.8 | −1.3 | +1.1 | −0.4 | +0.9 | +0.2 |
| 2024 | −1.8 | +2.1 | +2.3 | ±0.0 | +0.7 | −0.1 | +4.4 | +1.3 | +0.3 | −1.8 | +0.3 | +4.5 |
| 2025 | −1.5 | −0.2 | +0.1 | +1.1 | −0.6 | +0.4 | +0.1 | +0.4 | +1.4 | −0.9 | −2.6 | −2.7 |
+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 (Q712540) · 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.
