Lake · United Kingdom
Serpentine
Lake in Hyde Park, London, United Kingdom
- Area
- 0.1km²
- Max depth
- 5m
- Average depth
- 2.5m
- Elevation
- 17m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 1.8km
- Volume
- 0.000km³
Serpentine is a lake in United Kingdom. It covers 0.1 km². On average it is 2.5 m deep, and 5 m at its deepest point. Its surface lies 17 m above sea level.
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The water
How warm is Serpentine?
The water is warmest in July, around 27 °C at the surface, and coldest in January, around 4 °C. The surface averages 20 °C or more from May to September: comfortable for most swimmers.
It does not normally freeze in winter.
On the shore, afternoons reach 23 °C on average in July and 7 °C in January. The driest month is April (42 mm of rain), the wettest November (74 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (74 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 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 65 | 13 | 1.5 | 21 |
| February | 6 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 54 | 11 | 2.5 | 21 |
| March | 10 | 13 | 10 | 2 | 50 | 10 | 4.0 | 20 |
| April | 16 | 18 | 14 | 4 | 42 | 11 | 6.3 | 17 |
| May | 21 | 24 | 17 | 7 | 55 | 11 | 6.5 | 17 |
| June | 26 | 27 | 20 | 10 | 56 | 12 | 7.1 | 16 |
| July | 27 | 27 | 23 | 13 | 60 | 12 | 7.0 | 16 |
| August | 25 | 26 | 22 | 12 | 66 | 11 | 6.0 | 16 |
| September | 20 | 23 | 20 | 10 | 44 | 11 | 5.4 | 17 |
| October | 14 | 17 | 15 | 8 | 74 | 13 | 3.2 | 19 |
| November | 8 | 11 | 10 | 4 | 74 | 14 | 1.9 | 19 |
| December | 5 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 71 | 13 | 1.2 | 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 months before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 2 km² of land.
- About 0.0 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
Around the shore
What's around Serpentine
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 2beaches and swimming spots
Serpentine Lido
- —campsites
- 1boat hire and water-sport clubs
The Boathouse
- —marinas and slipways
- —ferry piers
- 1viewpoints
- 382hotels, B&Bs and chalets
DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel London - Marble Arch, Lime Tree Hotel, Chelsea Cloisters, Smart Hyde Park View, Corus Hyde Park and 377 more
- —fishing spots
- 884restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- London8,961,989 people
- City of Westminster247,614 people
- Chelsea60,000 people
- Notting Hill21,000 people
- Pimlico20,709 people
- Soho19,634 people
- Bayswater17,500 people
- Queenstown15,599 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: London City Airport (LCY), 15 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 | 6.8 | 7.4 | 10.1 | 13.8 | 17.1 | 20.4 | 22.6 | 22.2 | 19.5 | 15.1 | 10.3 | 7.3 |
| 2020 | +1.7 | +2.1 | −0.2 | +1.8 | +1.4 | −0.2 | −0.4 | +1.7 | +0.8 | −1.1 | +1.5 | −0.1 |
| 2021 | −1.3 | ±0.0 | +0.4 | −2.6 | −2.4 | +0.9 | ±0.0 | −1.1 | +1.7 | +1.0 | −0.5 | +1.5 |
| 2022 | +0.2 | +2.7 | +1.7 | +0.5 | +1.2 | +0.9 | +3.1 | +4.0 | +0.2 | +2.8 | +1.9 | −0.8 |
| 2023 | +0.7 | +1.9 | +0.2 | −0.5 | +0.4 | +2.6 | −0.7 | +0.2 | +3.5 | +1.5 | ±0.0 | +2.0 |
| 2024 | +0.1 | +3.4 | +1.2 | −0.4 | +1.3 | ±0.0 | −0.4 | +1.3 | −0.1 | +0.6 | −0.1 | +1.3 |
| 2025 | −0.8 | +0.1 | +1.9 | +2.3 | +1.9 | +3.3 | +2.5 | +2.1 | +0.3 | +0.2 | +1.3 | +1.9 |
+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 |
|---|---|
| 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 (Q1471930) · 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.
