Lake · Hungary
Lake Velence
Lake in Hungary
- Area
- 11.5km²
- Max depth
- 2m
- Average depth
- 1.2m
- Elevation
- 100m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 54km
- Volume
- 0.014km³
Lake Velence is a lake in Hungary. It covers 11.5 km². On average it is 1.2 m deep, and 2 m at its deepest point. Its surface lies 100 m above sea level.
Plan your visit
Stay, sail and get there
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The water
How warm is Lake Velence?
The water is warmest in July, around 26 °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 54 days a year, from around 13 December to 4 February.
On the shore, afternoons reach 30 °C on average in July and 2 °C in January. The driest month is April (34 mm of rain), the wettest June (67 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (56 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 | -4 | 37 | 7 | 1.8 | 14 |
| February | 2 | 4 | 5 | -3 | 41 | 8 | 3.3 | 16 |
| March | 8 | 11 | 11 | 1 | 39 | 8 | 5.0 | 16 |
| April | 14 | 17 | 18 | 6 | 34 | 8 | 7.1 | 14 |
| May | 19 | 22 | 22 | 11 | 63 | 12 | 7.8 | 14 |
| June | 24 | 25 | 27 | 16 | 67 | 11 | 8.4 | 12 |
| July | 26 | 26 | 30 | 18 | 62 | 10 | 8.8 | 12 |
| August | 25 | 26 | 29 | 17 | 60 | 9 | 8.3 | 11 |
| September | 21 | 23 | 23 | 12 | 58 | 8 | 6.1 | 13 |
| October | 13 | 17 | 17 | 6 | 50 | 8 | 4.4 | 13 |
| November | 5 | 9 | 10 | 2 | 42 | 9 | 2.2 | 14 |
| December | Ice | — | 3 | -3 | 42 | 9 | 1.1 | 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 10 months before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 207 km² of land.
- About 0.5 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
- Its shoreline is 4.5 times longer than a circle of the same area: plenty of bays and inlets.
Around the shore
What's around Lake Velence
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 20beaches and swimming spots
Naturista napozó, Velencei Vizi Vár, Északi Strand Velence, Szabad strand, Sirály Strand and 15 more
- 16campsites
Park Strand Camping, Brenner Gold Kemping, Nemeskócsag Kemping, Pákász Tanya Kemping, Tini Kemping and 11 more
- 2boat hire and water-sport clubs
Venice Beach Cable Park, Wakeboard pálya
- 23marinas and slipways
Sukorói kikötő and 22 more
- 5ferry piers
Agárd, Hajóállomás, Gárdony, Pákozd (Szúnyog-sziget) hajóállomás
- 7viewpoints
Kilátó (kicsi), Bence-hegyi panoráma-parkoló and 5 more
- 83hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Viking Hotel, Hotel Garden, Kakukk Panzió, Walzer Panzió, Varga Panzió and 78 more
- 1fishing spots
- 39restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Gárdony8,105 people
- Velence4,832 people
- Agárd4,426 people
- Kápolnásnyék3,224 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Budapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD), 55 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 | 2.3 | 5.1 | 11.1 | 17.7 | 22.5 | 26.9 | 29.6 | 29.4 | 23.3 | 16.9 | 9.6 | 3.3 |
| 2020 | +0.1 | +5.0 | +1.1 | +1.0 | −2.1 | −0.9 | −0.4 | +0.7 | +2.3 | −0.4 | −1.3 | +2.0 |
| 2021 | +1.9 | +1.7 | −0.7 | −3.6 | −2.6 | +3.2 | +2.6 | −0.4 | +1.8 | −0.7 | +0.2 | −0.3 |
| 2022 | +2.1 | +4.1 | +0.6 | −1.8 | +2.7 | +3.4 | +2.5 | +2.8 | −0.8 | +2.3 | +0.7 | +1.4 |
| 2023 | +4.3 | +0.8 | +1.7 | −2.9 | −1.2 | −0.8 | +0.8 | +0.5 | +4.5 | +4.6 | +1.0 | +1.7 |
| 2024 | +2.7 | +7.3 | +3.7 | +1.8 | +2.2 | +2.6 | +4.3 | +5.1 | +2.3 | +1.8 | −0.7 | +1.8 |
| 2025 | +3.8 | +0.3 | +3.6 | +2.5 | −0.9 | +5.2 | +2.0 | +2.6 | +3.1 | +0.1 | +1.0 | +1.8 |
+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 (Q847072) · 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.
