Reservoir · United Kingdom
Rutland Water
Reservoir in Rutland, England
- Area
- 11.3km²
- Max depth
- 235m
- Average depth
- 11m
- Elevation
- 83m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 35km
- Volume
- 0.124km³
Rutland Water is a reservoir in United Kingdom. It covers 11.3 km². On average it is 11 m deep, and 235 m at its deepest point. Its surface lies 83 m above sea level.
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The water
Water temperature
There is no reliable satellite record of the water temperature for this lake yet.
On the shore, afternoons reach 22 °C on average in July and 6 °C in January. The driest month is April (44 mm of rain), the wettest August (72 mm).
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.
Climate: 1991–2020 average
| Month | Water°C | Water high°C | Air high°C | Air low°C | Rainmm | Rainy daysdays | Sunh/day | Windkm/h |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | — | — | 6 | 1 | 58 | 13 | 1.7 | 21 |
| February | — | — | 7 | 1 | 50 | 11 | 2.9 | 20 |
| March | — | — | 10 | 2 | 49 | 11 | 4.2 | 19 |
| April | — | — | 13 | 4 | 44 | 12 | 5.9 | 17 |
| May | — | — | 17 | 7 | 59 | 12 | 6.6 | 17 |
| June | — | — | 20 | 10 | 66 | 12 | 6.5 | 15 |
| July | — | — | 22 | 12 | 69 | 14 | 6.6 | 15 |
| August | — | — | 21 | 12 | 72 | 13 | 5.6 | 16 |
| September | — | — | 19 | 9 | 49 | 11 | 5.1 | 17 |
| October | — | — | 14 | 7 | 72 | 13 | 3.2 | 19 |
| November | — | — | 10 | 4 | 66 | 13 | 2.1 | 19 |
| December | — | — | 7 | 2 | 64 | 13 | 1.7 | 20 |
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 5.2 years before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 77 km² of land.
- About 0.8 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
- Its shoreline is 2.9 times longer than a circle of the same area: plenty of bays and inlets.
Around the shore
What's around Rutland Water
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 2beaches and swimming spots
- 5campsites
Lyndon Top, Rutland Water Campsite, The Paddock
- 1boat hire and water-sport clubs
- 8marinas and slipways
- —ferry piers
- 2viewpoints
- 5hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Lakeside, Barnsdale Hall Hotel, Barnsdale Lodge, Hambleton Hall, Best Western Normanton Park Hotel
- —fishing spots
- 6restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Oakham10,922 people
- Empingham880 people
- Edith Weston818 people
- North Luffenham679 people
- Exton607 people
- Manton359 people
- Wing
- Preston
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: East Midlands Airport (EMA), 51 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 | 6.3 | 7.0 | 9.7 | 13.3 | 16.6 | 19.6 | 21.7 | 21.3 | 18.6 | 14.4 | 9.6 | 6.6 |
| 2020 | +1.9 | +1.9 | +0.1 | +1.7 | +1.2 | −0.2 | −0.9 | +1.2 | +0.3 | −1.2 | +1.3 | −0.2 |
| 2021 | −1.6 | ±0.0 | +0.5 | −2.3 | −2.5 | +0.8 | +0.8 | −1.1 | +1.7 | +1.0 | +0.1 | +1.1 |
| 2022 | +0.2 | +2.6 | +2.0 | +0.5 | +0.9 | +0.8 | +2.0 | +3.2 | +0.3 | +2.4 | +1.6 | −1.0 |
| 2023 | +0.7 | +2.3 | +0.1 | −0.2 | +0.6 | +2.7 | −0.8 | +0.4 | +3.4 | +1.0 | −0.2 | +1.9 |
| 2024 | +0.4 | +3.4 | +1.4 | −0.3 | +1.6 | ±0.0 | −0.2 | +1.1 | −0.2 | +0.4 | −0.2 | +1.7 |
| 2025 | −1.1 | +0.2 | +2.2 | +2.3 | +1.7 | +2.9 | +1.6 | +1.8 | +0.3 | ±0.0 | +1.1 | +1.9 |
+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual
Nearby
More lakes nearby
United Kingdom0.1 km² · 132 km away27°maxLlyn TegidUnited Kingdom3.9 km² · 202 km awayWindermereUnited Kingdom12.6 km² · 245 km away19°maxConiston WaterUnited Kingdom4.3 km² · 248 km away17°maxUllswaterUnited Kingdom8.0 km² · 261 km away17°maxDerwentwaterUnited Kingdom5.0 km² · 270 km away18°maxAbout 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 (Q822190) · 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.
