Reservoir · Kazakhstan
Shardara Reservoir
Reservoir in Kazakhstan
- Area
- 745km²
- Average depth
- 9.0m
- Elevation
- 248m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 339km
- Volume
- 6.7km³
Shardara Reservoir is a reservoir in Kazakhstan. It covers 745 km². On average it is 9.0 m deep. Its surface lies 248 m above sea level.
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The water
How warm is Shardara Reservoir?
The water is warmest in August, around 28 °C at the surface, and coldest in January, around 0 °C. The surface averages 20 °C or more from May to September: comfortable for most swimmers.
The lake usually freezes over for about 22 days a year, from around 31 December to 21 January.
On the shore, afternoons reach 38 °C on average in July and 4 °C in January. The driest month is August (2 mm of rain), the wettest March (51 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (191 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 | Ice | — | 4 | -4 | 34 | 8 | 3.7 | 9 |
| February | 3 | 6 | 8 | -3 | 47 | 9 | 5.0 | 11 |
| March | 10 | 13 | 16 | 4 | 51 | 9 | 6.1 | 11 |
| April | 16 | 19 | 23 | 10 | 45 | 8 | 8.1 | 12 |
| May | 22 | 24 | 30 | 16 | 25 | 6 | 10.6 | 12 |
| June | 26 | 27 | 36 | 21 | 8 | 2 | 12.4 | 14 |
| July | 28 | 28 | 38 | 23 | 2 | 1 | 12.8 | 16 |
| August | 28 | 28 | 37 | 22 | 2 | 0 | 12.0 | 14 |
| September | 25 | 27 | 30 | 15 | 3 | 1 | 10.3 | 13 |
| October | 19 | 23 | 21 | 8 | 17 | 3 | 7.6 | 11 |
| November | 10 | 14 | 12 | 2 | 39 | 6 | 4.8 | 10 |
| December | 2 | 5 | 5 | -4 | 48 | 8 | 3.7 | 9 |
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 199,564 km² of land.
- About 544 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
- Its shoreline is 3.5 times longer than a circle of the same area: plenty of bays and inlets.
Around the shore
What's around Shardara Reservoir
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 11beaches and swimming spots
Altın jağajay and 10 more
- —campsites
- —boat hire and water-sport clubs
- —marinas and slipways
- —ferry piers
- —viewpoints
- 5hotels, B&Bs and chalets
- —fishing spots
- 24restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Shardara25,356 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Tashkent International Airport (TAS), 91 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 | 4.3 | 7.5 | 15.8 | 22.6 | 30.2 | 36.1 | 38.2 | 36.6 | 30.0 | 21.1 | 11.7 | 4.6 |
| 2020 | −0.6 | +3.3 | +1.2 | −0.3 | −0.4 | −0.4 | +0.1 | −1.3 | −2.8 | −2.4 | −4.2 | −4.2 |
| 2021 | −6.2 | +0.2 | −2.5 | −0.9 | +0.4 | +1.1 | +1.4 | +0.6 | +1.2 | −3.7 | −1.3 | +4.7 |
| 2022 | +2.5 | +3.2 | −2.6 | +3.4 | −2.1 | +0.7 | +1.0 | −1.2 | +2.1 | ±0.0 | +0.7 | −3.4 |
| 2023 | −5.2 | +1.0 | +4.0 | +0.7 | −0.7 | +1.5 | +1.6 | −1.3 | −1.7 | +1.1 | +4.7 | +1.7 |
| 2024 | +2.8 | −0.6 | −2.2 | −0.1 | −2.8 | +0.9 | ±0.0 | +0.1 | −1.8 | −1.0 | +1.7 | −1.3 |
| 2025 | −1.0 | −0.6 | −0.7 | +3.2 | +3.0 | +1.4 | +2.1 | +0.2 | +0.7 | +2.0 | +1.6 | +1.8 |
+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual
Nearby
More lakes 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 (Q2474777) · 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.
