Reservoir · South Korea
Paldang Lake
Man-made lake in South Korea
- Area
- 34.1km²
- Average depth
- 7.1m
- Elevation
- 28m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 136km
- Volume
- 0.244km³
Paldang Lake is a reservoir in South Korea. It covers 34.1 km². On average it is 7.1 m deep. Its surface lies 28 m above sea level.
Plan your visit
Stay, sail and get there
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The water
How warm is Paldang Lake?
The water is warmest in July, around 27 °C at the surface, and coldest in January, around 0 °C. The surface averages 20 °C or more from May to September: comfortable for most swimmers.
The lake usually freezes over for about 47 days a year, from around 25 December to 9 February.
On the shore, afternoons reach 28 °C on average in August and 0 °C in January. The driest month is January (20 mm of rain), the wettest July (369 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (165 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 | -11 | 20 | 5 | 5.3 | 12 |
| February | 1 | 3 | 3 | -8 | 31 | 5 | 5.7 | 12 |
| March | 7 | 10 | 9 | -3 | 39 | 7 | 6.3 | 13 |
| April | 14 | 17 | 16 | 3 | 76 | 8 | 6.4 | 13 |
| May | 20 | 23 | 22 | 9 | 81 | 8 | 6.9 | 12 |
| June | 25 | 26 | 26 | 15 | 124 | 11 | 5.7 | 10 |
| July | 27 | 27 | 28 | 20 | 369 | 19 | 2.9 | 11 |
| August | 27 | 27 | 28 | 20 | 269 | 18 | 4.3 | 10 |
| September | 24 | 26 | 24 | 14 | 141 | 10 | 5.2 | 10 |
| October | 18 | 21 | 18 | 6 | 57 | 6 | 6.1 | 10 |
| November | 9 | 14 | 9 | -1 | 46 | 8 | 4.8 | 11 |
| December | 2 | 5 | 1 | -8 | 22 | 5 | 5.0 | 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 6 days before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 23,559 km² of land.
- About 456 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
- Its shoreline is 6.6 times longer than a circle of the same area: plenty of bays and inlets.
Around the shore
What's around Paldang Lake
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- —beaches and swimming spots
- 3campsites
1st hut camping on the bike trail, Ipo-bo Wellbing Campsite
- 1boat hire and water-sport clubs
- —marinas and slipways
- 2ferry piers
- 6viewpoints
- 47hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Geullauseu Resort Hotel, Daeseong Resort Hotel, Mirabo Motel, Keonteuri Mountain Villa Motel, Vallentine Motel and 42 more
- 1fishing spots
- 373restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Yangp'yŏng83,367 people
- Cheongpyeong
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Seoul Gimpo International Airport (GMP), 45 km in a straight line.
OpenStreetMap 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 | -0.5 | 3.0 | 8.9 | 16.1 | 22.3 | 26.3 | 27.9 | 28.3 | 23.9 | 17.8 | 9.4 | 1.2 |
| 2020 | +4.4 | +1.9 | +2.9 | −0.9 | +0.5 | +1.7 | −1.3 | +0.2 | −1.0 | −0.9 | +1.1 | ±0.0 |
| 2021 | +0.7 | +2.2 | +3.0 | +1.0 | −1.4 | −0.5 | +2.1 | −0.8 | +0.7 | +0.8 | +1.4 | +1.7 |
| 2022 | +1.0 | −1.2 | +1.9 | +1.7 | −0.2 | −0.4 | +1.6 | −0.9 | +0.4 | −1.1 | +3.0 | −2.4 |
| 2023 | +1.1 | +1.7 | +4.2 | +1.3 | +0.7 | ±0.0 | +1.0 | +1.0 | +1.8 | +0.6 | −0.4 | +1.5 |
| 2024 | +2.0 | +2.7 | +0.7 | +3.0 | −0.3 | +1.2 | +0.8 | +2.7 | +3.4 | +1.6 | +2.8 | +0.8 |
| 2025 | +1.3 | −2.1 | +1.1 | +0.7 | −1.6 | +0.5 | +2.8 | +1.7 | +1.9 | +1.2 | +1.4 | +1.4 |
+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual
North Korea
ChinaAbout 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 (Q12621570) · 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.
