Lake · Germany
Lake Tegel
Lake in Germany
- Area
- 2.7km²
- Max depth
- 16m
- Average depth
- 4.9m
- Elevation
- 29m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 12km
- Volume
- 0.013km³
Lake Tegel is a lake in Germany. It covers 2.7 km². On average it is 4.9 m deep, and 16 m at its deepest point. Its surface lies 29 m above sea level.
Plan your visit
Stay, sail and get there
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The water
How warm is Lake Tegel?
The water is warmest in July, around 24 °C at the surface, and coldest in January, around 0 °C. The surface averages 20 °C or more from June to September: comfortable for most swimmers.
The lake usually freezes over for about 27 days a year, from around 11 January to 6 February.
On the shore, afternoons reach 26 °C on average in July and 2 °C in January. The driest month is April (28 mm of rain), the wettest July (81 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (55 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 | — | 2 | -3 | 54 | 12 | 0.8 | 19 |
| February | 1 | 2 | 4 | -3 | 38 | 10 | 2.2 | 18 |
| March | 5 | 8 | 8 | -1 | 40 | 11 | 3.6 | 18 |
| April | 11 | 14 | 14 | 4 | 28 | 8 | 6.0 | 16 |
| May | 17 | 20 | 20 | 8 | 53 | 10 | 6.6 | 15 |
| June | 22 | 24 | 24 | 13 | 57 | 12 | 7.0 | 15 |
| July | 24 | 24 | 26 | 15 | 81 | 13 | 6.4 | 15 |
| August | 24 | 24 | 26 | 14 | 58 | 12 | 6.0 | 14 |
| September | 20 | 22 | 21 | 10 | 49 | 9 | 5.0 | 15 |
| October | 15 | 18 | 14 | 5 | 49 | 10 | 2.9 | 16 |
| November | 8 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 49 | 10 | 1.0 | 17 |
| December | 3 | 5 | 3 | -1 | 48 | 12 | 0.4 | 18 |
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 128 km² of land.
- About 0.5 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
Around the shore
What's around Lake Tegel
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 24beaches and swimming spots
FKK-Strand, Kiesgrube, Reiswerder Strand, Arbeiterstrand, Badestrand and 19 more
- 1campsites
Reisemobil Zentrum Berlin
- 14boat hire and water-sport clubs
Ruder-Riege Turnverein Waidmannslust, Nordberliner Tauchverein, Bootsvermietung Tegeler See, Wasserskigebiet, Minigolf und Bootsverleih Mühl and 9 more
- 64marinas and slipways
Bootsstände Lahe, VKB Motorboot Slipanlage, Bootshaus Zacholowsky, Motor-Yacht-Club Tegel e. V., SC Spandau e.V. and 59 more
- 14ferry piers
Fähre Burchardi, Tegelort, Hakenfelde, Anlegestelle Greenwichpromenade, Saatwinkel and 9 more
- 7viewpoints
Borsigdamm, Kanonenplatz and 5 more
- 2hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Hotel am Borsigturm, Central Hotel
- 1fishing spots
Angelsport-Verein Saatwinkel 1921 E.V.
- 79restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Tegel36,764 people
- Hakenfelde31,327 people
- Heiligensee18,099 people
- Haselhorst16,471 people
- Siemensstadt12,740 people
- Borsigwalde7,101 people
- Konradshöhe6,011 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER), 29 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 | 1.9 | 3.7 | 8.0 | 14.5 | 19.6 | 23.9 | 26.0 | 25.5 | 20.6 | 14.0 | 7.4 | 3.1 |
| 2020 | +3.6 | +4.1 | +1.2 | +1.4 | −1.7 | +1.1 | −1.0 | +2.4 | +1.2 | +0.3 | +1.2 | +0.8 |
| 2021 | −0.8 | −0.9 | +0.9 | −3.5 | −3.3 | +3.3 | −0.1 | −2.6 | +0.5 | +0.6 | +0.3 | −0.3 |
| 2022 | +2.7 | +3.8 | +1.6 | −1.6 | +1.3 | +2.8 | +1.0 | +3.1 | −1.1 | +3.7 | +1.0 | −0.3 |
| 2023 | +3.7 | +2.0 | +0.9 | −2.2 | −0.1 | +1.7 | −0.1 | −0.3 | +4.9 | +1.6 | +0.5 | +1.5 |
| 2024 | +1.0 | +5.2 | +3.6 | +0.6 | +1.7 | −0.4 | +0.3 | +2.4 | +2.7 | +2.0 | ±0.0 | +1.7 |
| 2025 | +1.5 | +0.4 | +3.2 | +2.3 | −0.2 | +1.9 | −0.9 | −0.2 | +1.1 | +0.1 | −0.1 | +1.5 |
+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 (Q697916) · 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.
