Lake · Germany
Schweriner See
Lake in Nordwestmecklenburg District, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
- Area
- 33.2km²
- Max depth
- 52m
- Average depth
- 7.8m
- Elevation
- 34m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 42km
- Volume
- 0.259km³
Schweriner See is a lake in Germany. It covers 33.2 km². On average it is 7.8 m deep, and 52 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 Schweriner See?
The water is warmest in July, around 21 °C at the surface, and coldest in January, around 1 °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 23 °C on average in July and 2 °C in January. The driest month is April (38 mm of rain), the wettest July (82 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (98 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 | -2 | 63 | 13 | 0.7 | 20 |
| February | 2 | 3 | 4 | -2 | 48 | 12 | 2.1 | 19 |
| March | 4 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 47 | 11 | 4.0 | 19 |
| April | 9 | 11 | 14 | 4 | 38 | 9 | 6.6 | 17 |
| May | 14 | 17 | 18 | 8 | 53 | 11 | 7.3 | 16 |
| June | 19 | 21 | 21 | 12 | 64 | 13 | 7.5 | 16 |
| July | 21 | 22 | 23 | 14 | 82 | 15 | 7.0 | 15 |
| August | 21 | 22 | 23 | 14 | 65 | 14 | 6.3 | 15 |
| September | 18 | 20 | 19 | 10 | 53 | 11 | 5.3 | 16 |
| October | 13 | 15 | 13 | 6 | 56 | 11 | 3.1 | 17 |
| November | 8 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 54 | 12 | 1.1 | 17 |
| December | 3 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 63 | 14 | 0.5 | 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 4.5 years before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 191 km² of land.
- About 1.8 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
Around the shore
What's around Schweriner See
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 16beaches and swimming spots
Badestelle Hundorf, Badestelle Langer See, Badestelle Seehof, Hotel Frankenhorst and 12 more
- 5campsites
Seecamping Flessenow, Ferienpark Seehof, Rastplatz No. 5 Wohnmobilstellplatz, Campingplatz Retgendorf, Wildes Zelten am Tannenhof
- 4boat hire and water-sport clubs
Schweriner See
- 11marinas and slipways
Yachthafen Paulsdamm, Marina Bad Kleinen, Segel- und Außensport Verein Schweriner Außensee e.V., Marina Frankenhorst and 7 more
- —ferry piers
- 10viewpoints
Badestelle Langer See and 9 more
- 18hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Seeblick, Ferienwohnungen Thamm, Haus Gallentin, Ferienwohnung Seeurlaub, Ulis Kinderland and 13 more
- —fishing spots
- 17restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Bad Kleinen3,787 people
- Lübstorf1,570 people
- Retgendorf1,187 people
- Seehof1,048 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Lübeck Blankensee Airport (LBC), 50 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 | 2.5 | 3.8 | 7.9 | 13.8 | 18.2 | 21.4 | 23.3 | 23.0 | 19.1 | 13.4 | 7.5 | 3.5 |
| 2020 | +3.7 | +4.0 | +1.2 | +1.1 | −1.6 | +1.2 | −1.5 | +2.6 | +1.0 | +0.5 | +1.7 | +0.3 |
| 2021 | −0.4 | −1.0 | +1.3 | −3.1 | −2.9 | +3.2 | +0.8 | −1.7 | +0.9 | +0.9 | +0.6 | −0.2 |
| 2022 | +3.0 | +3.7 | +1.8 | −1.2 | +0.5 | +1.5 | +0.6 | +2.4 | −1.1 | +3.5 | +0.7 | −0.9 |
| 2023 | +3.5 | +2.5 | +0.9 | −1.3 | +0.2 | +2.4 | −0.9 | −0.4 | +4.0 | +1.0 | +0.1 | +1.2 |
| 2024 | +1.0 | +4.6 | +3.4 | +0.3 | +2.7 | −0.3 | +0.1 | +1.2 | +1.2 | +1.3 | −0.1 | +2.3 |
| 2025 | +1.0 | +0.5 | +3.0 | +2.3 | −0.2 | +0.8 | −0.1 | ±0.0 | +0.9 | +0.4 | +0.3 | +1.9 |
+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 (Q311217) · 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.
