Lake · Germany
Ruppiner See
Lake in Germany
- Area
- 5.7km²
- Average depth
- 4.3m
- Elevation
- 35m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 29km
- Volume
- 0.025km³
Ruppiner See is a lake in Germany. It covers 5.7 km². On average it is 4.3 m deep. Its surface lies 35 m above sea level.
Plan your visit
Stay, sail and get there
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The water
How warm is Ruppiner See?
The water is warmest in July, around 24 °C at the surface, and coldest in January, around 1 °C. The surface averages 20 °C or more from June to August: comfortable for most swimmers.
It does not normally freeze in winter.
On the shore, afternoons reach 25 °C on average in July and 2 °C in January. The driest month is April (32 mm of rain), the wettest July (85 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (96 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 | 1 | 2 | 2 | -3 | 57 | 12 | 0.9 | 19 |
| February | 2 | 3 | 4 | -3 | 42 | 10 | 2.2 | 19 |
| March | 5 | 8 | 8 | -1 | 42 | 10 | 4.0 | 18 |
| April | 11 | 14 | 14 | 3 | 32 | 9 | 6.8 | 16 |
| May | 16 | 19 | 19 | 8 | 51 | 11 | 7.5 | 16 |
| June | 22 | 23 | 22 | 12 | 58 | 12 | 7.7 | 15 |
| July | 24 | 24 | 25 | 14 | 85 | 14 | 7.1 | 15 |
| August | 23 | 24 | 24 | 14 | 63 | 13 | 6.4 | 14 |
| September | 19 | 21 | 20 | 10 | 51 | 10 | 5.4 | 15 |
| October | 14 | 16 | 14 | 5 | 51 | 11 | 3.0 | 16 |
| November | 8 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 49 | 11 | 1.1 | 17 |
| December | 4 | 6 | 3 | -1 | 53 | 13 | 0.4 | 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 2.1 years before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 92 km² of land.
- About 0.4 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
- Its shoreline is 3.4 times longer than a circle of the same area: plenty of bays and inlets.
Around the shore
What's around Ruppiner See
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 16beaches and swimming spots
Lindenallee, Badestelle Karwe, Badestelle Gnewikow, Badestelle and 12 more
- 5campsites
Wohnmobilstellplatz Sportcenter Neuruppin, KanuCamp, Campingplatz am Ruppiner See, Zum Roten Milan
- 8boat hire and water-sport clubs
Wasserwanderrastplatz, Alte Fischerhütte, KanuCamp, Kayakomat Neuruppin, Regatta-Segler Neuruppin e. V. and 3 more
- 14marinas and slipways
Anleger Karwe, Bootshafen Seehof, Yachthafen Wustrau, Seglerverein Medizin Neuruppin, Boat-City Neuruppin and 9 more
- 1ferry piers
Neuruppin
- 4viewpoints
- 22hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Jugenddorf am Ruppiner See, Pension Oelke, An der Bleiche, City Hotel Neuruppin, Altes Kasino and 17 more
- 1fishing spots
- 54restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Neuruppin31,901 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER), 76 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 | 1.9 | 3.6 | 8.0 | 14.2 | 18.8 | 22.4 | 24.6 | 24.3 | 19.8 | 13.5 | 7.2 | 3.1 |
| 2020 | +3.7 | +4.1 | +1.1 | +1.1 | −1.9 | +0.9 | −1.4 | +2.5 | +1.0 | +0.3 | +1.5 | +0.5 |
| 2021 | −0.6 | −1.1 | +1.1 | −3.2 | −2.9 | +3.3 | +0.4 | −2.1 | +0.7 | +0.8 | +0.6 | −0.4 |
| 2022 | +3.0 | +3.9 | +1.5 | −1.6 | +0.6 | +2.2 | +0.9 | +2.8 | −1.2 | +3.5 | +0.7 | −0.8 |
| 2023 | +3.7 | +2.1 | +0.7 | −1.8 | +0.1 | +2.0 | −0.5 | −0.5 | +4.6 | +1.3 | +0.4 | +1.2 |
| 2024 | +1.1 | +5.0 | +3.5 | +0.7 | +2.4 | −0.3 | −0.4 | +1.1 | +1.8 | +1.5 | −0.3 | +2.0 |
| 2025 | +1.3 | +0.3 | +3.1 | +2.2 | −0.6 | +1.1 | −0.5 | −0.6 | +0.9 | +0.2 | ±0.0 | +1.6 |
+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 (Q323423) · 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.
