Lake · Germany
Lake Starnberg
Lake in Bavaria, Germany
- Area
- 54.8km²
- Max depth
- 127m
- Average depth
- 23m
- Elevation
- 583m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 49km
- Volume
- 1.2km³
Lake Starnberg is a lake in Germany. It covers 54.8 km². On average it is 23 m deep, and 127 m at its deepest point. Its surface lies 583 m above sea level.
Plan your visit
Stay, sail and get there
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The water
How warm is Lake Starnberg?
The water is warmest in July, around 23 °C at the surface, and coldest in February, around 3 °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 23 °C on average in July and 2 °C in January. The driest month is February (59 mm of rain), the wettest August (139 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (67 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 | 3 | 4 | 2 | -5 | 76 | 13 | 1.8 | 12 |
| February | 3 | 4 | 3 | -4 | 59 | 12 | 3.5 | 12 |
| March | 5 | 7 | 8 | -1 | 69 | 15 | 4.9 | 12 |
| April | 10 | 12 | 14 | 3 | 68 | 13 | 6.6 | 10 |
| May | 15 | 18 | 18 | 8 | 123 | 18 | 6.7 | 9 |
| June | 21 | 22 | 22 | 12 | 137 | 19 | 7.7 | 8 |
| July | 23 | 23 | 23 | 14 | 134 | 18 | 7.7 | 8 |
| August | 23 | 23 | 23 | 13 | 139 | 17 | 6.9 | 8 |
| September | 20 | 21 | 18 | 9 | 92 | 14 | 5.4 | 8 |
| October | 15 | 17 | 14 | 5 | 77 | 12 | 3.6 | 9 |
| November | 10 | 12 | 8 | 0 | 62 | 12 | 1.7 | 10 |
| December | 5 | 7 | 3 | -3 | 67 | 14 | 1.5 | 11 |
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 6.3 years before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 306 km² of land.
- About 6.2 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
Around the shore
What's around Lake Starnberg
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 18beaches and swimming spots
Kustermannpark, Strandbad Starnberg, Freibad Garatshausen, Strandbad Feldafing, Badegebiet Paradies Possenofen and 13 more
- 4campsites
Campingplatz Seeshaupt, Camping Ambach am See, Camping beim Fischer, Campingplatz Jugendherberge Possenhofen
- 24boat hire and water-sport clubs
Starnberger See - Nordbad, Starnberger See - Ambach, Starnberger See - Wintertauchplatz, Allmannshauser Steilwand, Allmannshausen: Wasserwacht (Tauchen) and 19 more
- 36marinas and slipways
Mohle, Bootshafen und Service Sattler Werft, Yachtclub Possenhofen, Buchscharner Seewirt, Seglergemeinschaft München (SGM) e.V. and 31 more
- 10ferry piers
Tutzing, Leoni, Ambach, Seeshaupt, Bernried and 5 more
- 20viewpoints
Bismarckturm Assenhausen, Brahmspromenade, Possenhofen, Seeblick, Schloss Possenhoffen and 15 more
- 52hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Hotel Starnberger See, Behringerheim, Augustiner in Berg, Tutzinger Hof, Möwe and 47 more
- —fishing spots
- 115restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Starnberg23,940 people
- Tutzing9,517 people
- Pöcking5,734 people
- Feldafing4,293 people
- Münsing4,047 people
- Seeshaupt2,862 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Munich Airport (MUC), 62 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 | 2.0 | 3.4 | 8.3 | 13.7 | 17.7 | 21.5 | 23.1 | 22.6 | 18.1 | 13.6 | 7.5 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | +2.9 | +4.3 | +0.5 | +2.6 | −0.9 | −1.7 | +0.1 | +0.3 | +1.2 | −0.9 | +1.6 | +0.1 |
| 2021 | −1.5 | +3.6 | −0.4 | −2.9 | −3.1 | +1.9 | −0.5 | −2.0 | +1.9 | −0.1 | −1.4 | +0.8 |
| 2022 | +1.2 | +2.7 | +1.8 | −1.8 | +2.0 | +2.7 | +1.4 | +1.8 | −0.8 | +4.3 | +2.0 | +0.8 |
| 2023 | +2.3 | +2.3 | +1.7 | −2.6 | −0.6 | +1.4 | +1.1 | +1.4 | +4.8 | +4.0 | −0.1 | +2.3 |
| 2024 | +1.6 | +5.8 | +3.4 | +0.8 | +0.5 | +0.4 | +1.3 | +2.4 | +0.4 | +2.0 | +0.2 | +0.7 |
| 2025 | +1.9 | +1.8 | +2.0 | +1.5 | −0.8 | +2.7 | −0.9 | +0.7 | +0.7 | −0.8 | +0.1 | +2.1 |
+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 (Q131615) · 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.
