Lake · Austria
Millstätter See
Lake in Carinthia, Austria
- Area
- 12.6km²
- Max depth
- 140m
- Average depth
- 53m
- Elevation
- 588m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 25km
- Volume
- 0.667km³
Millstätter See is a lake in Austria. It covers 12.6 km². On average it is 53 m deep, and 140 m at its deepest point. Its surface lies 588 m above sea level.
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The water
How warm is Millstätter See?
The water is warmest in July, around 23 °C at the surface, and coldest in January, around 2 °C. The surface averages 20 °C or more from June to August: comfortable for most swimmers.
It does not normally freeze in winter.
On the shore, afternoons reach 19 °C on average in July and -2 °C in January. The driest month is January (48 mm of rain), the wettest August (165 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (106 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 | 2 | 3 | -2 | -11 | 48 | 10 | 3.1 | 7 |
| February | 3 | 4 | -1 | -10 | 49 | 10 | 4.5 | 8 |
| March | 6 | 8 | 3 | -6 | 61 | 12 | 5.2 | 7 |
| April | 11 | 14 | 9 | -2 | 74 | 15 | 5.7 | 7 |
| May | 16 | 19 | 13 | 3 | 116 | 19 | 5.5 | 6 |
| June | 21 | 23 | 17 | 7 | 141 | 21 | 6.4 | 6 |
| July | 23 | 24 | 19 | 9 | 156 | 21 | 7.0 | 5 |
| August | 22 | 23 | 19 | 8 | 165 | 19 | 6.5 | 5 |
| September | 19 | 21 | 14 | 4 | 124 | 15 | 5.1 | 5 |
| October | 15 | 17 | 10 | 0 | 94 | 13 | 4.6 | 6 |
| November | 9 | 12 | 4 | -3 | 86 | 13 | 2.8 | 6 |
| December | 5 | 7 | -1 | -9 | 60 | 11 | 2.5 | 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 3.3 years before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 286 km² of land.
- About 6.4 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
Around the shore
What's around Millstätter See
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 11beaches and swimming spots
Freier Seezugang Badeplatz „Bank im See“, Freier Seezugang Klauberpark, Freier Seezugang Millstätter See bei Spittal an der Drau, Großegg, Freier Seezugang Millstättersee - Parkplatz Tschall, Freier Seezugang Millstättersee nahe Schiffsanlegestelle Dellach-Sappl and 6 more
- 11campsites
Terassencamping Pesenthein, Seecamping Winkler, Camping Brunner, Camping Burgstaller, Schwimmbad Camping Mössler and 6 more
- 3boat hire and water-sport clubs
Millstätter See - Bucht von Döbriach;Millstätter See - Junfernsprung;Millstätter, Strobl
- 4marinas and slipways
Yachthafen Döbriach, Kärntner Yacht Club Millstättersee
- 9ferry piers
Millstatt, Grossegg Schuster, Laggerhof, Döbriach Glanz, Dellach and 4 more
- 9viewpoints
Kanzel, Jungfernsprung (Nockberge), Orchideenwand, Weiße Wand and 5 more
- 119hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Hotel Moserhof, Pension Oberwinkler, Hotel Bellevue, Strandschlössl, Gästehaus Risser and 114 more
- —fishing spots
- 61restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Spittal an der Drau12,880 people
- Seeboden3,123 people
- Döbriach1,285 people
- Millstatt889 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Klagenfurt Airport (KLU), 58 km in a straight line.
Car hire at KLU airport (Klagenfurt am Wörthersee)Discover Cars · Affiliate linkOpenStreetMap is built by volunteers: when a number is low, it may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.
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 | -2.4 | -1.4 | 3.1 | 8.7 | 13.3 | 17.4 | 19.2 | 18.6 | 13.9 | 9.5 | 3.5 | -1.1 |
| 2020 | +3.2 | +3.3 | −0.1 | +2.1 | −0.8 | −1.7 | ±0.0 | +1.1 | +0.9 | −2.1 | +2.4 | −0.3 |
| 2021 | −2.0 | +1.3 | −1.5 | −3.1 | −2.8 | +2.2 | +0.1 | −0.9 | +2.3 | −1.0 | +0.2 | −1.0 |
| 2022 | +0.2 | +1.1 | +1.1 | −0.9 | +2.1 | +2.8 | +1.7 | +0.8 | −1.0 | +4.2 | +1.0 | +0.2 |
| 2023 | +0.8 | +0.9 | +1.8 | −2.6 | −0.7 | +1.0 | +0.9 | +1.1 | +3.5 | +3.2 | −0.8 | +1.6 |
| 2024 | +0.7 | +4.8 | +2.9 | +1.2 | +0.1 | +0.3 | +2.1 | +3.3 | −0.8 | +1.8 | +1.4 | +1.4 |
| 2025 | +2.2 | +3.2 | +2.0 | +1.4 | −0.3 | +4.3 | −0.8 | +1.1 | +1.7 | −1.0 | ±0.0 | +2.3 |
+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual
SloveniaAbout 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 (Q220241) · 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.
