Reservoir · Germany
Möhne Reservoir
Reservoir
- Area
- 8.6km²
- Average depth
- 16m
- Elevation
- 211m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 33km
- Volume
- 0.141km³
Möhne Reservoir is a reservoir in Germany. It covers 8.6 km². On average it is 16 m deep. Its surface lies 211 m above sea level.
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Stay, sail and get there
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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 24 °C on average in July and 3 °C in January. The driest month is April (47 mm of rain), the wettest January (85 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 | — | — | 3 | -2 | 85 | 15 | 0.9 | 21 |
| February | — | — | 4 | -2 | 63 | 13 | 2.2 | 20 |
| March | — | — | 8 | 0 | 60 | 14 | 3.9 | 18 |
| April | — | — | 14 | 4 | 47 | 11 | 5.9 | 15 |
| May | — | — | 17 | 8 | 70 | 13 | 6.3 | 15 |
| June | — | — | 21 | 11 | 70 | 14 | 6.7 | 14 |
| July | — | — | 24 | 13 | 83 | 15 | 6.6 | 14 |
| August | — | — | 23 | 13 | 79 | 14 | 5.9 | 14 |
| September | — | — | 19 | 9 | 65 | 12 | 4.8 | 15 |
| October | — | — | 14 | 6 | 64 | 13 | 3.0 | 17 |
| November | — | — | 8 | 2 | 75 | 15 | 1.0 | 18 |
| December | — | — | 4 | -1 | 82 | 16 | 0.6 | 20 |
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 9 months before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 419 km² of land.
- About 5.9 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
- Its shoreline is 3.1 times longer than a circle of the same area: plenty of bays and inlets.
Around the shore
What's around Möhne Reservoir
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 5beaches and swimming spots
Strandbad Delecke
- 7campsites
Wohnmobil Kolter, Wohnmobilstellplatz Wildpark, Camp13, ADAC Campingplatz Möhnesee, Wohnmobilstellplatz Delecke Nordufer and 2 more
- 7boat hire and water-sport clubs
Möhnesee, MahlAnderZ, Bootsvermietung Höcker, Bootsverleih Becker, Wild Boards and 2 more
- 17marinas and slipways
Yachtclub Möhnesee, ADAC YACHTSCHULE MÖHNESEE, Yachtclub Westfalia Arnsberg e.V., RFCM, Yachtclub Sauerland and 12 more
- 5ferry piers
Sperrmauer, Hevetal, Delecke, Körbecke
- 7viewpoints
Möhnesee-Turm and 6 more
- 13hotels, B&Bs and chalets
JGH Möhnesee, Jugendherberge Möhnesee Joseph-Joos-Haus, Ferienwohnung Schladör, Thiele, Heinrich-Lübke-Haus and 8 more
- —fishing spots
- 23restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Möhnesee11,559 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Dortmund Airport (DTM), 32 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 | 2.9 | 4.0 | 8.1 | 13.5 | 17.4 | 21.1 | 23.6 | 23.4 | 19.1 | 13.6 | 7.7 | 3.8 |
| 2020 | +2.6 | +3.5 | +0.5 | +2.2 | −0.7 | +0.2 | −0.8 | +2.4 | +2.1 | −0.3 | +1.9 | +0.8 |
| 2021 | −1.0 | +0.7 | +0.5 | −3.6 | −3.2 | +2.3 | −1.4 | −2.7 | +1.3 | +0.4 | −0.7 | +1.2 |
| 2022 | +1.6 | +3.0 | +2.1 | −1.6 | +1.7 | +2.3 | +1.8 | +4.4 | ±0.0 | +3.2 | +2.2 | +0.2 |
| 2023 | +2.1 | +2.2 | +0.1 | −2.1 | +0.2 | +2.2 | −0.5 | −1.2 | +4.1 | +2.0 | +0.2 | +2.0 |
| 2024 | +0.4 | +4.5 | +2.7 | −0.6 | +1.8 | −0.6 | −1.0 | +0.6 | +0.7 | +1.0 | +0.3 | +1.1 |
| 2025 | +0.5 | +0.3 | +2.7 | +2.2 | +0.6 | +2.1 | +0.3 | +1.4 | +0.8 | −0.4 | +0.4 | +2.0 |
+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 (Q677151) · 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.
