Lake · Latvia
Liepāja Lake
Lake in Latvia
- Area
- 24.3km²
- Max depth
- 3m
- Average depth
- 1.0m
- Elevation
- -1m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 47km
- Volume
- 0.024km³
Liepāja Lake is a lake in Latvia. It covers 24.3 km². On average it is 1.0 m deep, and 3 m at its deepest point. Its surface lies 1 m below sea level.
Plan your visit
Stay, sail and get there
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The water
How warm is Liepāja Lake?
The water is warmest in July, around 20 °C at the surface, and coldest in January, around 0 °C. The surface averages 20 °C or more in July: comfortable for most swimmers.
The lake usually freezes over for about 86 days a year, from around 3 December to 26 February.
On the shore, afternoons reach 21 °C on average in July and 0 °C in January. The driest month is April (35 mm of rain), the wettest October (82 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (112 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 | — | 0 | -3 | 65 | 15 | 0.3 | 24 |
| February | Ice | — | 0 | -4 | 46 | 12 | 1.8 | 23 |
| March | 3 | 6 | 3 | -2 | 45 | 11 | 4.4 | 21 |
| April | 9 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 35 | 9 | 7.5 | 18 |
| May | 15 | 18 | 14 | 7 | 42 | 9 | 9.5 | 16 |
| June | 20 | 20 | 18 | 11 | 57 | 11 | 9.8 | 17 |
| July | 20 | 21 | 21 | 15 | 75 | 13 | 8.8 | 17 |
| August | 19 | 20 | 21 | 15 | 78 | 14 | 7.3 | 17 |
| September | 15 | 17 | 17 | 11 | 65 | 12 | 5.3 | 20 |
| October | 9 | 12 | 11 | 6 | 82 | 16 | 2.6 | 22 |
| November | 3 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 78 | 16 | 0.4 | 22 |
| December | Ice | — | 2 | 0 | 74 | 16 | 0.0 | 25 |
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 7 days before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 2,710 km² of land.
- About 40 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
- Its shoreline is 2.7 times longer than a circle of the same area: plenty of bays and inlets.
Around the shore
What's around Liepāja Lake
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- —beaches and swimming spots
- 2campsites
Liepājas robeža, Heaven Glamping
- —boat hire and water-sport clubs
- 3marinas and slipways
Liepaja Marina
- —ferry piers
- 8viewpoints
Putnu vērošanas tornis and 7 more
- 17hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Amrita, Vilhelmine, Libava, Sport Hotel, Promenade Hotel and 12 more
- 1fishing spots
- 48restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Liepāja67,421 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Palanga International Airport (PLQ), 58 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 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 3.1 | 8.7 | 14.4 | 17.9 | 21.0 | 20.7 | 16.7 | 10.7 | 6.0 | 2.5 |
| 2020 | +5.0 | +4.6 | +2.4 | +0.4 | −1.9 | +2.3 | −1.4 | +1.0 | +1.3 | +2.2 | +2.6 | +0.1 |
| 2021 | −0.2 | −1.8 | +0.4 | −1.0 | −1.5 | +3.8 | +4.3 | −1.2 | −0.7 | +1.4 | +0.7 | −2.1 |
| 2022 | +2.7 | +3.1 | +1.6 | −0.6 | −2.0 | +1.5 | −0.4 | +3.0 | −1.5 | +1.9 | −0.5 | −1.3 |
| 2023 | +2.2 | +2.3 | +0.5 | +1.4 | +1.1 | +2.0 | −1.0 | +0.7 | +2.8 | +0.4 | −0.8 | −0.4 |
| 2024 | −0.6 | +2.8 | +2.4 | +0.2 | +3.9 | +1.6 | +0.2 | +0.9 | +3.1 | +1.5 | +1.2 | +2.2 |
| 2025 | +3.6 | +0.8 | +3.1 | +1.6 | −2.5 | −1.1 | +0.6 | −1.3 | +1.9 | +0.7 | +0.7 | +2.3 |
+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual
Lithuania
EstoniaAbout 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 (Q1579595) · 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.
