Lake · Ireland
Lough Ree
Lake in Ireland
- Area
- 103km²
- Max depth
- 35m
- Average depth
- 5.8m
- Elevation
- 34m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 196km
- Volume
- 0.601km³
Lough Ree is a lake in Ireland. It covers 103 km². On average it is 5.8 m deep, and 35 m at its deepest point. Its surface lies 34 m above sea level.
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The water
Water temperature
There is no reliable satellite record of the water temperature for this lake yet.
On the shore, afternoons reach 19 °C on average in July and 7 °C in January. The driest month is April (72 mm of rain), the wettest November (120 mm).
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.
Climate: 1991–2020 average
| Month | Water°C | Water high°C | Air high°C | Air low°C | Rainmm | Rainy daysdays | Sunh/day | Windkm/h |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | — | — | 7 | 2 | 111 | 19 | 1.4 | 22 |
| February | — | — | 7 | 2 | 88 | 16 | 2.6 | 21 |
| March | — | — | 9 | 2 | 85 | 16 | 4.1 | 20 |
| April | — | — | 12 | 4 | 72 | 15 | 6.0 | 18 |
| May | — | — | 15 | 7 | 85 | 16 | 6.5 | 18 |
| June | — | — | 18 | 10 | 95 | 16 | 6.2 | 17 |
| July | — | — | 19 | 11 | 101 | 20 | 5.0 | 16 |
| August | — | — | 18 | 11 | 111 | 19 | 4.6 | 17 |
| September | — | — | 17 | 9 | 89 | 16 | 4.2 | 18 |
| October | — | — | 13 | 7 | 109 | 18 | 3.1 | 19 |
| November | — | — | 9 | 4 | 120 | 19 | 1.7 | 20 |
| December | — | — | 7 | 3 | 116 | 19 | 1.0 | 21 |
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 3 months before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 4,570 km² of land.
- About 90 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
- Its shoreline is 5.4 times longer than a circle of the same area: plenty of bays and inlets.
Around the shore
What's around Lough Ree
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- —beaches and swimming spots
- 2campsites
Lough Ree East Caravan and Camping, Gailey Bay Caravan & Camping Park
- —boat hire and water-sport clubs
- 37marinas and slipways
Barley Harbour, LRYC Slipway, LRYC Marina, Hanley's Marina, Ballyleague Marina and 32 more
- —ferry piers
- 1viewpoints
- 9hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Benown House B&B, Shines Guest Accommodation, Hodson Bay Hotel, Wineport Lodge, Villa St. John B&B and 4 more
- —fishing spots
- 11restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Athlone22,869 people
- Lanesborough1,454 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Ireland West Airport Knock (NOC), 74 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 | 7.0 | 7.3 | 9.1 | 12.2 | 15.1 | 17.8 | 19.0 | 18.5 | 16.6 | 13.1 | 9.4 | 7.3 |
| 2020 | +0.6 | +0.2 | −0.1 | +1.6 | +1.3 | −0.6 | −1.0 | +1.0 | +0.2 | −1.3 | +0.8 | −0.5 |
| 2021 | −1.3 | +0.5 | +1.1 | −0.6 | −1.1 | +0.5 | +2.7 | +0.8 | +1.9 | +1.0 | +0.9 | +1.2 |
| 2022 | +0.9 | +1.6 | +1.7 | +0.5 | +0.9 | −0.3 | +1.9 | +2.2 | +0.6 | +1.4 | +1.1 | −1.7 |
| 2023 | +0.3 | +2.0 | +0.1 | +0.3 | +2.1 | +2.9 | −0.7 | +0.4 | +1.8 | +0.5 | ±0.0 | +1.2 |
| 2024 | −0.6 | +1.9 | +0.7 | +0.2 | +2.0 | −0.5 | −0.5 | +0.1 | −0.2 | +0.7 | +0.9 | +1.4 |
| 2025 | −0.5 | +1.0 | +2.1 | +2.1 | +2.6 | +1.2 | +1.6 | +1.7 | −0.5 | +0.3 | +0.7 | +0.7 |
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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 (Q608133) · 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.
