Reservoir · Spain
Reservoir of Mequinenza
Reservoir in Spain
- Area
- 47.9km²
- Max depth
- 60m
- Average depth
- 32m
- Elevation
- 113m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 219km
- Volume
- 1.5km³
Reservoir of Mequinenza is a reservoir in Spain. It covers 47.9 km². On average it is 32 m deep, and 60 m at its deepest point. Its surface lies 113 m above sea level.
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The water
How warm is Reservoir of Mequinenza?
The water is warmest in August, around 27 °C at the surface, and coldest in January, around 8 °C. The surface averages 20 °C or more from May to October: comfortable for most swimmers.
It does not normally freeze in winter.
On the shore, afternoons reach 34 °C on average in July and 11 °C in January. The driest month is July (19 mm of rain), the wettest April (49 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (187 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 | 8 | 9 | 11 | 1 | 27 | 5 | 4.6 | 16 |
| February | 9 | 10 | 13 | 1 | 21 | 4 | 6.5 | 17 |
| March | 12 | 14 | 17 | 4 | 38 | 6 | 7.9 | 16 |
| April | 16 | 18 | 21 | 7 | 49 | 8 | 8.7 | 15 |
| May | 21 | 23 | 25 | 11 | 46 | 8 | 10.2 | 15 |
| June | 25 | 26 | 31 | 16 | 28 | 6 | 11.6 | 14 |
| July | 27 | 27 | 34 | 18 | 19 | 4 | 12.0 | 14 |
| August | 27 | 27 | 33 | 18 | 20 | 4 | 10.6 | 14 |
| September | 25 | 27 | 28 | 14 | 38 | 6 | 8.8 | 13 |
| October | 21 | 23 | 22 | 10 | 46 | 7 | 6.9 | 13 |
| November | 15 | 18 | 15 | 5 | 44 | 6 | 5.1 | 15 |
| December | 10 | 12 | 11 | 2 | 21 | 5 | 4.1 | 15 |
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 38 days before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 57,097 km² of land.
- About 470 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
- Its shoreline is 8.9 times longer than a circle of the same area: plenty of bays and inlets.
Around the shore
What's around Reservoir of Mequinenza
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- —beaches and swimming spots
- 1campsites
Camping Lake Caspe
- —boat hire and water-sport clubs
- 7marinas and slipways
Embarcadero de Chipriana, Embarcadereo Mediano Cero, Embarcadero, Puerto deportivo de Caspe and 3 more
- —ferry piers
- 5viewpoints
Mirador del Depósito
- 14hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Buena Vista, Hotel Mar de Aragón, Apartamentos Caspe, Alojamientos La Buena Vida, Apartamentos Cerca del Lago and 9 more
- 1fishing spots
EBROCAT
- 6restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Caspe8,054 people
- Mequinensa / Mequinenza2,479 people
- Chiprana355 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Lleida-Alguaire Airport (ILD), 47 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 | 11.3 | 12.8 | 17.0 | 20.6 | 25.1 | 30.9 | 33.9 | 33.2 | 27.8 | 22.5 | 15.3 | 11.3 |
| 2020 | +0.4 | +3.7 | −0.3 | −0.8 | +1.0 | −3.1 | +0.2 | +1.0 | +0.1 | −1.9 | +1.5 | +0.1 |
| 2021 | −1.6 | +2.2 | +0.5 | −1.2 | −0.2 | −0.5 | ±0.0 | +0.3 | ±0.0 | ±0.0 | −0.8 | +1.8 |
| 2022 | +0.8 | +2.7 | −1.2 | −0.6 | +3.9 | +3.8 | +3.3 | +2.9 | +1.1 | +2.9 | +2.6 | +2.5 |
| 2023 | +0.1 | +0.4 | +3.4 | +3.6 | +1.7 | −0.6 | +2.1 | +2.4 | +1.9 | +3.4 | +2.8 | +2.2 |
| 2024 | +2.2 | +3.9 | +1.8 | +2.0 | +0.8 | −0.2 | +2.1 | +2.3 | −1.8 | −0.4 | +2.3 | +1.3 |
| 2025 | +1.0 | +1.8 | −1.7 | +0.3 | +0.5 | +3.9 | +0.1 | +2.6 | +0.6 | +0.3 | +0.6 | +0.9 |
+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual
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FranceAbout these numbers
| 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 (Q1334951) · 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.
