Reservoir · Slovakia
Orava
Reservoir in Slovakia
- Area
- 28.2km²
- Max depth
- 38m
- Average depth
- 12m
- Elevation
- 596m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 50km
- Volume
- 0.346km³
Orava is a reservoir in Slovakia. It covers 28.2 km². On average it is 12 m deep, and 38 m at its deepest point. Its surface lies 596 m above sea level.
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Stay, sail and get there
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The water
How warm is Orava?
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 July to August: comfortable for most swimmers.
The lake usually freezes over for about 87 days a year, from around 18 December to 14 March.
On the shore, afternoons reach 22 °C on average in August and -2 °C in January. The driest month is December (58 mm of rain), the wettest July (129 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (52 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 | — | -2 | -8 | 63 | 14 | 1.6 | 13 |
| February | Ice | — | 0 | -7 | 58 | 13 | 2.7 | 13 |
| March | 1 | 4 | 4 | -4 | 64 | 14 | 4.2 | 12 |
| April | 7 | 11 | 12 | 2 | 63 | 13 | 5.7 | 10 |
| May | 14 | 17 | 16 | 7 | 114 | 18 | 6.0 | 9 |
| June | 20 | 21 | 20 | 11 | 118 | 17 | 6.4 | 9 |
| July | 22 | 22 | 22 | 12 | 129 | 18 | 6.7 | 8 |
| August | 21 | 22 | 22 | 12 | 94 | 14 | 6.6 | 8 |
| September | 18 | 20 | 17 | 7 | 92 | 13 | 4.8 | 9 |
| October | 13 | 16 | 11 | 3 | 72 | 12 | 3.3 | 10 |
| November | 6 | 10 | 6 | -1 | 60 | 12 | 1.6 | 11 |
| December | 1 | 3 | 0 | -6 | 58 | 14 | 1.2 | 12 |
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 months before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 1,143 km² of land.
- About 18 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
- Its shoreline is 2.6 times longer than a circle of the same area: plenty of bays and inlets.
Around the shore
What's around Orava
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 3beaches and swimming spots
- 4campsites
Camp Marina, Autocamp Stará Hora, Autocamp JAMI
- —boat hire and water-sport clubs
- 8marinas and slipways
Prístav č. 2, Prístav č. 1 and 6 more
- —ferry piers
- 3viewpoints
- 24hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Cocktail Bar, Ranč u Edyho, U RYBÁRA, Turistická ubytovňa Magura, Oravia and 19 more
- —fishing spots
- 23restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Námestovo7,502 people
- Lipnica Wielka4,100 people
- Zubrohlava2,354 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Poprad-Tatry Airport (TAT), 62 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 | -1.8 | -0.2 | 4.5 | 11.7 | 16.5 | 20.0 | 22.2 | 22.4 | 17.1 | 11.3 | 5.6 | -0.2 |
| 2020 | +1.7 | +3.5 | +1.7 | +0.9 | −3.5 | −0.1 | −0.9 | +0.5 | +1.3 | −0.5 | ±0.0 | +2.1 |
| 2021 | +0.5 | +0.6 | −0.5 | −4.7 | −2.4 | +2.4 | +1.4 | −2.5 | +0.2 | ±0.0 | +0.2 | −0.7 |
| 2022 | +1.4 | +1.9 | +1.3 | −3.0 | +1.1 | +3.1 | +1.3 | +1.9 | −1.9 | +3.0 | +0.5 | +0.5 |
| 2023 | +3.5 | +0.7 | +2.0 | −2.5 | −0.6 | ±0.0 | +0.8 | +0.8 | +4.5 | +3.0 | −0.9 | +0.9 |
| 2024 | +1.8 | +6.5 | +4.4 | +1.2 | +2.6 | +1.6 | +2.2 | +3.6 | +3.0 | +1.6 | −0.8 | +1.8 |
| 2025 | +3.9 | +1.6 | +4.2 | +1.9 | −2.3 | +2.5 | +0.6 | +1.3 | +2.0 | −1.6 | −0.1 | +2.4 |
+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual
Nearby
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| Outline, area, depth, volume | HydroLAKES v1.0 (Messager et al. 2016) · CC BY 4.0 |
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| 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 (Q737728) · 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.
