Lake · Spain
Sanabria Lake
Lake in Zamora Province, Castile and León, Spain
- Area
- 3.4km²
- Max depth
- 55m
- Average depth
- 17m
- Elevation
- 1,006m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 8.7km
- Volume
- 0.059km³
Sanabria Lake is a lake in Spain. It covers 3.4 km². On average it is 17 m deep, and 55 m at its deepest point. Its surface lies 1,006 m above sea level.
Plan your visit
Stay, sail and get there
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The water
How warm is Sanabria Lake?
The water is warmest in August, around 22 °C at the surface, and coldest in January, around 5 °C. The surface averages 20 °C or more from July to August: comfortable for most swimmers.
It does not normally freeze in winter.
On the shore, afternoons reach 28 °C on average in July and 7 °C in January. The driest month is July (18 mm of rain), the wettest October (93 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (167 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 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 87 | 12 | 3.7 | 12 |
| February | 6 | 7 | 8 | -1 | 66 | 9 | 5.1 | 12 |
| March | 8 | 10 | 11 | 1 | 77 | 10 | 5.8 | 13 |
| April | 12 | 13 | 14 | 3 | 65 | 12 | 7.0 | 12 |
| May | 16 | 18 | 19 | 6 | 46 | 10 | 8.6 | 11 |
| June | 20 | 21 | 24 | 10 | 32 | 6 | 10.2 | 11 |
| July | 22 | 22 | 28 | 12 | 18 | 4 | 11.6 | 11 |
| August | 22 | 22 | 28 | 12 | 19 | 4 | 10.6 | 11 |
| September | 20 | 21 | 24 | 10 | 32 | 6 | 8.6 | 10 |
| October | 15 | 18 | 17 | 6 | 93 | 12 | 5.6 | 12 |
| November | 11 | 13 | 10 | 2 | 82 | 12 | 3.9 | 12 |
| December | 7 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 90 | 12 | 3.6 | 11 |
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 10 months before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 125 km² of land.
- About 2.3 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
Around the shore
What's around Sanabria Lake
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 6beaches and swimming spots
Playa de Viquiella, Playa de «los Enanos», Playa Custa Llago, Playa del Folgoso and 2 more
- 3campsites
Campamento San Lorenzo, Camping Peña Gullón, Camping Los Robles
- 3boat hire and water-sport clubs
Lantur
- 1marinas and slipways
- —ferry piers
- 9viewpoints
Neveira, Mirador de San Martin, Mirador de Llogalinos, Mirador Vigo de Sanabria, Mirador Senda de los Monjes and 4 more
- 24hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Martín, Cesar, Apartamentos rurales Doña Petra, Casa rural, Villa Lucerna Sports & Hotel and 19 more
- —fishing spots
- 14restaurants and cafés
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Bragança Airport (BGC), 29 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 | 6.8 | 8.0 | 11.1 | 14.3 | 18.6 | 24.3 | 28.5 | 28.4 | 24.1 | 17.1 | 10.3 | 7.3 |
| 2020 | +0.7 | +3.1 | +1.0 | −0.6 | +1.7 | −2.6 | +3.5 | −1.3 | −0.6 | −2.3 | +1.1 | −0.9 |
| 2021 | −1.1 | ±0.0 | +1.0 | +0.1 | −1.0 | −1.3 | −0.9 | +1.0 | −2.1 | +1.4 | +0.3 | +1.9 |
| 2022 | +1.2 | +2.9 | −0.4 | +0.1 | +4.6 | +0.9 | +4.8 | +3.0 | −1.2 | +1.7 | +0.7 | +1.0 |
| 2023 | −0.2 | +0.3 | +0.7 | +3.4 | +0.7 | −0.2 | +0.4 | +2.5 | −1.3 | +1.9 | +1.5 | +0.4 |
| 2024 | +1.8 | +2.4 | −0.6 | +1.3 | −1.6 | −1.7 | +1.4 | +3.5 | −1.6 | −0.8 | +3.1 | +1.1 |
| 2025 | +1.0 | +1.0 | −0.9 | +0.5 | −0.1 | +2.5 | +2.1 | +3.1 | −0.4 | +2.5 | −0.2 | −0.9 |
+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual
Nearby
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| 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 (Q1520979) · 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.
