Lake · Canada
Lake Timiskaming
Lake on the Quebec-Ontario border
- Area
- 204km²
- Average depth
- 51m
- Elevation
- 175m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 163km
- Volume
- 10.4km³
Lake Timiskaming is a lake in Canada. It covers 204 km². On average it is 51 m deep. Its surface lies 175 m above sea level.
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The water
How warm is Lake Timiskaming?
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 158 days a year, from around 12 November to 18 April.
On the shore, afternoons reach 25 °C on average in July and -10 °C in January. The driest month is February (38 mm of rain), the wettest October (73 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (107 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 | — | -10 | -20 | 40 | 12 | 2.7 | 13 |
| February | Ice | — | -8 | -19 | 38 | 10 | 4.7 | 14 |
| March | Ice | — | -2 | -12 | 42 | 9 | 6.9 | 14 |
| April | Ice | — | 7 | -3 | 57 | 11 | 7.0 | 14 |
| May | 10 | 14 | 16 | 4 | 61 | 12 | 7.2 | 12 |
| June | 18 | 20 | 22 | 10 | 68 | 14 | 7.9 | 11 |
| July | 22 | 22 | 25 | 14 | 72 | 14 | 7.9 | 11 |
| August | 22 | 22 | 24 | 13 | 68 | 14 | 6.7 | 11 |
| September | 18 | 20 | 20 | 8 | 65 | 13 | 5.5 | 12 |
| October | 10 | 14 | 10 | 2 | 73 | 13 | 3.2 | 12 |
| November | Ice | — | 2 | -5 | 58 | 13 | 1.6 | 13 |
| December | Ice | — | -6 | -14 | 48 | 12 | 1.7 | 13 |
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 9 months before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 30,637 km² of land.
- About 428 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
- Its shoreline is 3.2 times longer than a circle of the same area: plenty of bays and inlets.
Around the shore
What's around Lake Timiskaming
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 4beaches and swimming spots
- 8campsites
Les Campeurs du Témiscamingue, Camping la Bannik, Halte-Camping VR, Old Mission Resort, Camp Lorrain and 3 more
- —boat hire and water-sport clubs
- 11marinas and slipways
Marina de Ville-Marie and 10 more
- —ferry piers
- 6viewpoints
Belvédère du Corbeau, Point de vue du Nord, Point de vue de la Chouette, Belvédère de la Bannik, Devil's Rock and 1 more
- 10hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Au Repos du Bouleau, Motel Auberge Ville-Marie, Hôtel Motel Caroline, Domaine TémiKami, Edgewater Motel and 5 more
- —fishing spots
- 9restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Temiskaming Shores10,442 people
- Haileybury3,247 people
- Ville-Marie2,831 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Rouyn Noranda Airport (YUY), 98 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 | -9.7 | -8.5 | -2.3 | 7.3 | 16.2 | 21.9 | 25.0 | 23.9 | 19.5 | 10.3 | 2.1 | -5.8 |
| 2020 | +2.7 | +1.5 | +3.1 | −0.1 | −1.1 | +2.0 | +2.9 | +0.1 | −1.2 | −2.6 | +2.2 | +1.0 |
| 2021 | +2.1 | −0.1 | +5.5 | +3.8 | +0.9 | +2.4 | −0.3 | +3.1 | −0.3 | +5.2 | +0.7 | +1.8 |
| 2022 | −3.2 | −0.5 | −0.4 | +0.6 | +2.9 | +0.4 | +0.2 | +1.0 | −0.2 | +1.9 | +1.7 | +2.0 |
| 2023 | +3.8 | +2.5 | +0.8 | +2.0 | +1.5 | +1.7 | +0.4 | −0.5 | +2.8 | +2.3 | −0.8 | +4.2 |
| 2024 | +3.1 | +5.7 | +5.1 | +2.5 | +2.4 | +1.5 | +1.6 | +2.2 | +3.7 | +2.8 | +2.3 | +1.0 |
| 2025 | −1.0 | −1.0 | +1.2 | +0.1 | +0.3 | +0.5 | +0.2 | +0.8 | +1.4 | +3.4 | −1.3 | −1.2 |
+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 |
|---|---|
| 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 (Q2118285) · 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.
