Lake · Canada
Lake Nipissing
Lake in Ontario, Canada
- Area
- 878km²
- Max depth
- 52m
- Average depth
- 4.5m
- Elevation
- 192m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 1,218km
- Volume
- 4.0km³
Lake Nipissing is a lake in Canada. It covers 878 km². On average it is 4.5 m deep, and 52 m at its deepest point. Its surface lies 192 m above sea level.
Plan your visit
Stay, sail and get there
Some links above are affiliate links: if you book through them we may earn a commission, at no extra cost to you. It never changes what the data on this page says.
The water
How warm is Lake Nipissing?
The water is warmest in August, around 22 °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 151 days a year, from around 17 November to 16 April.
On the shore, afternoons reach 24 °C on average in July and -7 °C in January. The driest month is February (47 mm of rain), the wettest July (88 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (114 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 | — | -7 | -16 | 52 | 13 | 2.7 | 11 |
| February | Ice | — | -7 | -16 | 47 | 11 | 4.4 | 12 |
| March | Ice | — | -1 | -10 | 52 | 10 | 6.3 | 11 |
| April | Ice | — | 8 | -2 | 67 | 11 | 6.5 | 11 |
| May | 10 | 14 | 16 | 5 | 76 | 13 | 7.0 | 8 |
| June | 18 | 20 | 21 | 11 | 88 | 14 | 7.9 | 8 |
| July | 22 | 22 | 24 | 14 | 88 | 15 | 8.1 | 8 |
| August | 22 | 22 | 23 | 13 | 79 | 13 | 7.0 | 8 |
| September | 19 | 21 | 19 | 9 | 79 | 13 | 5.7 | 8 |
| October | 12 | 16 | 11 | 3 | 86 | 14 | 3.4 | 9 |
| November | 2 | 6 | 4 | -3 | 70 | 14 | 1.9 | 10 |
| December | Ice | — | -4 | -11 | 58 | 13 | 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 10 months before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 10,779 km² of land.
- About 147 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
- Its shoreline is 11.6 times longer than a circle of the same area: plenty of bays and inlets.
Around the shore
What's around Lake Nipissing
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 9beaches and swimming spots
Lighthouse Beach, Kinsmen Beach and 7 more
- 19campsites
Bayview Camp & Cottages, Cache Bay Trailer Park, Sturgeon Falls Holiday KOA, Glenrock Cottages and Trailer Park, Big Oak Tent Trailer Park & Cottages and 14 more
- 1boat hire and water-sport clubs
Fun Rentals
- 29marinas and slipways
Harpers Marina, w, Dokis Marina, Starlite Marina, Riverview Cottages Boat Ramp and 24 more
- —ferry piers
- 6viewpoints
Viewpoint Lake Nipissing, Lake Nipissing Lookout, Duchesnay Falls, Viewing Platform and 2 more
- 22hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Bayview Camp & Cottages, Lunge Lodge, Nipissing Inn, The Dolphin Motel Cottages, Wajashk Cottages and 17 more
- —fishing spots
- 24restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- North Bay50,396 people
- Callander3,964 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: North Bay Jack Garland Airport (YYB), 20 km in a straight line.
Car hire at YYB airport (North Bay)Discover Cars · Affiliate linkOpenStreetMap is built by volunteers: when a number is low, it may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.
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 | -7.4 | -6.7 | -0.6 | 8.2 | 16.2 | 21.2 | 23.9 | 23.0 | 19.3 | 11.1 | 3.5 | -3.8 |
| 2020 | +2.4 | +1.0 | +3.8 | −0.2 | −0.9 | +1.5 | +2.6 | −0.2 | −1.3 | −1.9 | +2.3 | +0.7 |
| 2021 | +1.5 | −0.8 | +4.6 | +2.9 | +0.7 | +2.0 | −0.1 | +3.1 | +0.4 | +4.6 | +0.2 | +2.5 |
| 2022 | −3.0 | −0.7 | ±0.0 | +0.3 | +2.9 | +0.6 | +0.4 | +1.4 | +0.5 | +1.6 | +2.0 | +2.0 |
| 2023 | +3.5 | +2.7 | +1.6 | +2.1 | +1.5 | +2.1 | +1.0 | −0.3 | +2.5 | +2.2 | −0.2 | +4.1 |
| 2024 | +2.9 | +5.9 | +5.2 | +2.4 | +2.9 | +1.4 | +2.0 | +2.3 | +3.6 | +2.8 | +2.7 | +0.8 |
| 2025 | −0.8 | −1.5 | +1.2 | +0.3 | −0.1 | +0.5 | +1.2 | +0.8 | +1.2 | +2.6 | −1.5 | −0.9 |
+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual
Nearby
More lakes nearby
United StatesAbout 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 (Q1356838) · 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.
