Lake · Austria
Lake Zell
Zeller See
Lake in Salzburg
- Area
- 4.3km²
- Max depth
- 69m
- Average depth
- 17m
- Elevation
- 749m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 11km
- Volume
- 0.074km³
Lake Zell is a lake in Austria. It covers 4.3 km². On average it is 17 m deep, and 69 m at its deepest point. Its surface lies 749 m above sea level.
Plan your visit
Stay, sail and get there
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The water
How warm is Lake Zell?
The water is warmest in July, around 22 °C at the surface, and coldest in January, around 0 °C. The surface averages 20 °C or more from June to August: comfortable for most swimmers.
The lake usually freezes over for about 42 days a year, from around 9 January to 19 February.
On the shore, afternoons reach 20 °C on average in July and -1 °C in January. The driest month is February (75 mm of rain), the wettest August (188 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (94 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 | — | -1 | -9 | 94 | 13 | 3.0 | 7 |
| February | Ice | — | 0 | -8 | 75 | 13 | 4.5 | 7 |
| March | 3 | 6 | 4 | -5 | 93 | 16 | 5.2 | 7 |
| April | 9 | 12 | 10 | 0 | 90 | 15 | 5.7 | 6 |
| May | 15 | 18 | 14 | 4 | 154 | 20 | 5.5 | 6 |
| June | 20 | 22 | 18 | 8 | 178 | 22 | 6.4 | 5 |
| July | 22 | 22 | 20 | 10 | 185 | 22 | 7.0 | 5 |
| August | 21 | 22 | 20 | 10 | 188 | 20 | 6.5 | 5 |
| September | 18 | 20 | 15 | 6 | 132 | 16 | 5.1 | 5 |
| October | 13 | 16 | 11 | 1 | 104 | 14 | 4.5 | 6 |
| November | 8 | 10 | 5 | -3 | 78 | 14 | 2.8 | 6 |
| December | 3 | 5 | 0 | -7 | 83 | 14 | 2.4 | 7 |
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 2.7 years before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 34 km² of land.
- About 0.9 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
Around the shore
What's around Lake Zell
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 5beaches and swimming spots
Strandbad Zell am See, Bademöglichkeit an der Promenade, Strandbad Maishofen
- 2campsites
Panorama Camp, Seecamp
- 5boat hire and water-sport clubs
SUP rental, Bootsvermietung Hutter, Bootverleih
- 2marinas and slipways
- 7ferry piers
Kurpark, Seecamp, Esplanade, Bellevue, Sonnhof and 2 more
- 4viewpoints
- 67hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Latini Gästehaus (Bettenhaus), Hotel zum Hirschen, Cella central, Appartement Laimgruber, Schloß Prielau and 62 more
- —fishing spots
- 52restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Zell am See7,619 people
- Thumersbach1,010 people
- Bruck an der Großglocknerstraße739 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Salzburg Airport (SZG), 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 | -1.0 | -0.2 | 4.1 | 9.9 | 14.3 | 18.2 | 19.8 | 19.5 | 14.8 | 10.8 | 4.9 | 0.2 |
| 2020 | +2.7 | +3.1 | +0.8 | +2.9 | −1.3 | −1.5 | −0.1 | +0.9 | +1.5 | −1.9 | +2.3 | +0.3 |
| 2021 | −1.5 | +2.9 | −0.7 | −3.0 | −3.2 | +2.5 | +0.7 | −1.9 | +2.6 | −0.2 | −0.4 | −0.3 |
| 2022 | +0.7 | +1.3 | +1.9 | −0.9 | +2.1 | +3.0 | +1.5 | +0.9 | −1.0 | +4.6 | +1.1 | +1.1 |
| 2023 | +1.2 | +1.7 | +2.4 | −3.5 | −0.5 | +1.1 | +1.6 | +1.3 | +5.2 | +3.7 | −1.6 | +1.8 |
| 2024 | +1.2 | +4.8 | +3.4 | +1.1 | +0.9 | +0.5 | +1.8 | +3.4 | +0.1 | +2.6 | +1.1 | +0.5 |
| 2025 | +2.1 | +4.0 | +3.2 | +2.2 | −1.4 | +3.9 | −1.0 | +0.8 | +2.2 | −1.6 | −0.3 | +2.4 |
+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual
GermanyAbout 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 (Q187763) · 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.
