Lake · Sweden
Roxen
Lake in Norrköping Municipality, Östergötland County, Sweden
- Area
- 94.5km²
- Max depth
- 8m
- Average depth
- 13m
- Elevation
- 34m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 89km
- Volume
- 1.2km³
Roxen is a lake in Sweden. It covers 94.5 km². On average it is 13 m deep, and 8 m at its deepest point. Its surface lies 34 m above sea level.
Plan your visit
Stay, sail and get there
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The water
How warm is Roxen?
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 in July: comfortable for most swimmers.
The lake usually freezes over for about 72 days a year, from around 25 December to 6 March.
On the shore, afternoons reach 23 °C on average in July and -1 °C in January. The driest month is March (40 mm of rain), the wettest July (100 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (107 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 | — | -1 | -6 | 49 | 11 | 0.4 | 9 |
| February | Ice | — | 0 | -5 | 42 | 10 | 1.8 | 9 |
| March | 2 | 4 | 4 | -3 | 40 | 10 | 5.0 | 9 |
| April | 7 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 42 | 10 | 7.2 | 9 |
| May | 14 | 17 | 16 | 7 | 68 | 12 | 8.4 | 9 |
| June | 20 | 21 | 20 | 11 | 87 | 15 | 9.4 | 9 |
| July | 22 | 22 | 23 | 14 | 100 | 15 | 8.2 | 8 |
| August | 19 | 21 | 21 | 13 | 85 | 15 | 6.7 | 9 |
| September | 15 | 17 | 17 | 9 | 58 | 12 | 5.1 | 10 |
| October | 9 | 12 | 10 | 4 | 70 | 13 | 2.6 | 9 |
| November | 5 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 63 | 13 | 0.7 | 9 |
| December | 1 | 3 | 0 | -4 | 54 | 13 | 0.2 | 9 |
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 13,228 km² of land.
- About 68 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 Roxen
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 14beaches and swimming spots
Bergsbaden, Roxenbaden, Östernäs badplats, Ekängen and 10 more
- 2campsites
Ställplats Göta kanal, Bergs slussar, Caravan Club Sandvik
- —boat hire and water-sport clubs
- 7marinas and slipways
Ekängens Båtklubb, Linköpings segelbåtshamn, Linköpings Jolleseglarklubb and 4 more
- —ferry piers
- 1viewpoints
- 3hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Bergs slussar vandrarhem, STF Vandrarhem Norsholm/Kapten Billes, Idingstad säteri
- —fishing spots
- 17restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Ekängen2,485 people
- Berg1,229 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Linköping City Airport (LPI), 10 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 | -1.1 | -0.1 | 3.9 | 10.3 | 15.8 | 19.9 | 22.6 | 21.3 | 16.7 | 9.7 | 4.1 | 0.4 |
| 2020 | +5.8 | +4.0 | +1.7 | +0.6 | −1.7 | +3.9 | −2.2 | +3.0 | +1.4 | +1.2 | +3.1 | +2.3 |
| 2021 | −1.9 | −1.5 | +1.4 | −2.0 | −1.6 | +3.2 | +2.9 | −1.2 | −0.4 | +1.2 | +0.3 | −2.8 |
| 2022 | +2.3 | +1.7 | +2.2 | −1.5 | −0.5 | +2.3 | +0.5 | +2.9 | −1.3 | +2.4 | +1.5 | −2.2 |
| 2023 | +2.3 | +1.5 | −0.9 | −0.7 | +0.7 | +3.4 | −1.6 | −1.7 | +2.2 | −0.9 | −2.5 | −2.1 |
| 2024 | −2.3 | +1.4 | +1.1 | −2.2 | +3.6 | −0.5 | −2.0 | −0.1 | +1.1 | +1.5 | +0.6 | +2.2 |
| 2025 | +1.7 | +0.3 | +2.8 | +2.0 | −1.5 | −0.2 | +2.3 | ±0.0 | +2.2 | +0.9 | +0.2 | +2.9 |
+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 (Q1574296) · 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.
