Crater lake · Portugal
Sete Cidades Massif
Mountain and crater lake in Portugal
- Area
- 4.2km²
- Average depth
- 32m
- Elevation
- 260m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 13km
- Volume
- 0.133km³
Sete Cidades Massif is a crater lake in Portugal. It covers 4.2 km². On average it is 32 m deep. Its surface lies 260 m above sea level.
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Stay, sail and get there
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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 23 °C on average in August and 16 °C in March. The driest month is July (18 mm of rain), the wettest December (105 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 | — | — | 17 | 15 | 67 | 13 | 3.8 | 27 |
| February | — | — | 16 | 15 | 68 | 12 | 5.0 | 26 |
| March | — | — | 16 | 14 | 65 | 11 | 6.2 | 28 |
| April | — | — | 16 | 15 | 56 | 10 | 7.2 | 25 |
| May | — | — | 18 | 16 | 43 | 10 | 8.4 | 22 |
| June | — | — | 20 | 18 | 30 | 8 | 8.7 | 20 |
| July | — | — | 22 | 21 | 18 | 5 | 9.3 | 17 |
| August | — | — | 23 | 22 | 27 | 6 | 9.3 | 18 |
| September | — | — | 23 | 21 | 56 | 13 | 7.8 | 20 |
| October | — | — | 21 | 20 | 74 | 14 | 5.7 | 26 |
| November | — | — | 19 | 17 | 66 | 13 | 4.3 | 27 |
| December | — | — | 17 | 16 | 105 | 16 | 3.3 | 28 |
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
- Its catchment drains -9,999 km² of land.
Around the shore
What's around Sete Cidades Massif
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 2beaches and swimming spots
- 1campsites
Parque de Campismo das Sete Cidades
- 2boat hire and water-sport clubs
Azores for All
- —marinas and slipways
- —ferry piers
- 15viewpoints
Miradouro da Vista do Rei, Miradouro das Cumeeiras, Miradouro da Lagoa de Santiago, Miradouro do Cerrado das Freiras and 11 more
- 3hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Eco-Turismo, Lake Cottage Panoramic View, Casa Grande
- —fishing spots
- 5restaurants and cafés
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: João Paulo II Airport (PDL), 16 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 | 16.6 | 16.0 | 15.9 | 16.3 | 17.8 | 19.8 | 22.0 | 23.3 | 22.7 | 20.8 | 18.6 | 17.3 |
| 2020 | +0.9 | +0.9 | +0.6 | +0.4 | +0.1 | −0.7 | −0.2 | +0.5 | −0.4 | ±0.0 | −0.6 | −0.7 |
| 2021 | −0.2 | −0.2 | −0.1 | +0.5 | +0.3 | +0.3 | −0.1 | +0.5 | +0.2 | +1.7 | +1.7 | +0.9 |
| 2022 | +0.3 | +0.1 | +0.5 | +0.6 | +0.2 | −0.4 | −0.2 | +0.6 | +1.0 | +0.3 | +0.8 | −0.1 |
| 2023 | −1.0 | −0.5 | +1.0 | +0.9 | +0.8 | +0.8 | +0.5 | +1.1 | +0.5 | +0.9 | +1.4 | +0.8 |
| 2024 | +1.1 | +1.5 | +0.4 | +1.0 | +1.1 | +0.7 | +1.3 | +1.9 | +0.9 | +1.3 | +1.6 | +0.7 |
| 2025 | +1.5 | +0.9 | −0.4 | ±0.0 | −0.2 | +0.6 | ±0.0 | +0.3 | +0.1 | +1.3 | ±0.0 | −0.2 |
+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 (Q1515751) · 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.
