Reservoir · China
Plover Cove Reservoir
Reservoir in New Territories, Hong Kong
- Area
- 11.2km²
- Average depth
- 26m
- Elevation
- 6m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 22km
- Volume
- 0.290km³
Plover Cove Reservoir is a reservoir in China. It covers 11.2 km². On average it is 26 m deep. Its surface lies 6 m above sea level.
Plan your visit
Stay, sail and get there
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The water
How warm is Plover Cove Reservoir?
The water is warmest in August, around 30 °C at the surface, and coldest in January, around 18 °C. The surface averages 20 °C or more from April to December: comfortable for most swimmers.
It does not normally freeze in winter.
On the shore, afternoons reach 30 °C on average in August and 20 °C in January. The driest month is December (25 mm of rain), the wettest June (282 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 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 12 | 36 | 5 | 4.0 | 18 |
| February | 18 | 19 | 21 | 14 | 29 | 7 | 3.0 | 17 |
| March | 20 | 21 | 23 | 17 | 72 | 10 | 2.5 | 17 |
| April | 23 | 24 | 26 | 20 | 104 | 13 | 3.2 | 16 |
| May | 26 | 27 | 28 | 24 | 210 | 18 | 4.5 | 14 |
| June | 28 | 29 | 30 | 26 | 282 | 22 | 4.8 | 16 |
| July | 29 | 30 | 30 | 27 | 185 | 21 | 6.6 | 16 |
| August | 30 | 30 | 30 | 27 | 218 | 22 | 6.0 | 14 |
| September | 29 | 29 | 30 | 26 | 160 | 16 | 5.8 | 14 |
| October | 27 | 28 | 28 | 22 | 49 | 6 | 6.1 | 16 |
| November | 24 | 25 | 25 | 18 | 30 | 4 | 5.3 | 18 |
| December | 20 | 22 | 21 | 13 | 25 | 4 | 4.7 | 19 |
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 11 years before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 24 km² of land.
- About 0.8 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
Around the shore
What's around Plover Cove Reservoir
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 4beaches and swimming spots
Tai Po Lung Mei Beach
- 1campsites
Chung Pui Camp Site
- 2boat hire and water-sport clubs
Hong Kong Schools Sailing Association
- 5marinas and slipways
Slipway for Tai Po Boat Club, Slipway for Tai Mei Tuk Water Sports Centre, Tai Mei Tuk Sheltered Anchorages
- —ferry piers
- 8viewpoints
Spring Breeze Pavilion Viewing Point, Tai Mei Tuk Family Walk Viewing Point, Sheung Tsz Fung Viewing Point and 5 more
- 1hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Bradbury Jockey Club Youth Hostel
- 1fishing spots
Aqua Pearl
- 9restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Wu Kai Sha23,511 people
- Shuen Wan22,465 people
- Tai Mei Tuk17,544 people
- Nai Chung5,001 people
- Ting Kok2,000 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Hong Kong International Airport (HKG), 39 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 | 19.6 | 21.1 | 23.3 | 26.0 | 28.5 | 29.6 | 30.2 | 30.2 | 29.8 | 28.0 | 25.0 | 20.8 |
| 2020 | +2.2 | +0.6 | +1.2 | −1.5 | +0.9 | +0.2 | +0.7 | −0.2 | ±0.0 | −1.0 | +0.4 | −0.2 |
| 2021 | −0.2 | +2.0 | +1.6 | +1.3 | +2.6 | +0.8 | +0.7 | −0.3 | +1.0 | −0.1 | −0.1 | +0.7 |
| 2022 | +1.0 | −2.7 | +0.9 | −0.1 | −1.6 | −0.5 | +0.7 | +0.1 | +1.2 | +0.9 | +0.6 | −2.1 |
| 2023 | −0.3 | +0.9 | +1.0 | +0.3 | +0.4 | +0.7 | +1.1 | +0.6 | ±0.0 | −0.3 | +0.4 | +1.0 |
| 2024 | +1.0 | +1.5 | +0.8 | +2.3 | −0.8 | −0.2 | +0.7 | +0.5 | +0.9 | +0.6 | −0.1 | −0.2 |
| 2025 | +0.3 | −0.6 | +0.2 | +0.7 | +0.8 | +0.5 | +0.7 | −0.3 | +0.3 | +0.2 | −0.8 | +1.8 |
+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 (Q3135349) · 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.
