Reservoir · Brazil
Sobradinho Reservoir
Lake in Bahia, Brazil
- Area
- 2,615km²
- Average depth
- 13m
- Elevation
- 385m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 1,302km
- Volume
- 34.1km³
Sobradinho Reservoir is a reservoir in Brazil. It covers 2,615 km². On average it is 13 m deep. Its surface lies 385 m above sea level.
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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 34 °C on average in October and 31 °C in July. The driest month is August (1 mm of rain), the wettest March (111 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 | — | — | 32 | 24 | 105 | 13 | 7.8 | 14 |
| February | — | — | 32 | 24 | 98 | 13 | 7.4 | 13 |
| March | — | — | 32 | 24 | 111 | 13 | 7.5 | 13 |
| April | — | — | 32 | 23 | 61 | 8 | 8.1 | 14 |
| May | — | — | 32 | 23 | 10 | 2 | 8.5 | 16 |
| June | — | — | 31 | 21 | 7 | 1 | 9.3 | 18 |
| July | — | — | 31 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 9.9 | 20 |
| August | — | — | 32 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 10.8 | 20 |
| September | — | — | 34 | 22 | 3 | 1 | 10.9 | 21 |
| October | — | — | 34 | 24 | 27 | 3 | 9.8 | 19 |
| November | — | — | 34 | 24 | 64 | 9 | 8.6 | 16 |
| December | — | — | 33 | 24 | 75 | 11 | 8.2 | 14 |
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 500,632 km² of land.
- About 2,672 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
- Its shoreline is 7.2 times longer than a circle of the same area: plenty of bays and inlets.
Around the shore
What's around Sobradinho Reservoir
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 1beaches and swimming spots
Dunas do Velho Chico
- —campsites
- —boat hire and water-sport clubs
- —marinas and slipways
- 2ferry piers
- —viewpoints
- 1hotels, B&Bs and chalets
- —fishing spots
- —restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Casa Nova72,086 people
- Remanso40,586 people
- Sento Sé38,154 people
- Sobrado12,155 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Senador Nilo Coelho Airport (PNZ), 190 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 | 32.2 | 31.6 | 31.7 | 32.0 | 32.3 | 31.3 | 30.8 | 31.7 | 33.6 | 34.5 | 33.6 | 33.0 |
| 2020 | −0.3 | +0.7 | −2.2 | −0.6 | +0.2 | +0.3 | +0.2 | +0.5 | +0.2 | +0.5 | −2.2 | +1.6 |
| 2021 | +2.5 | +0.8 | +2.5 | +1.2 | +0.4 | +0.7 | +1.0 | +0.1 | +0.9 | +0.2 | −1.3 | −2.3 |
| 2022 | −1.7 | +1.5 | +1.3 | +1.3 | ±0.0 | +0.4 | +0.1 | −0.2 | +0.1 | +0.2 | −2.2 | −1.4 |
| 2023 | +0.8 | +3.2 | +1.9 | +1.9 | +0.1 | +0.4 | +1.0 | +1.4 | +1.1 | +1.7 | +2.2 | +2.4 |
| 2024 | −0.1 | +0.2 | +2.1 | +1.4 | +1.4 | +0.6 | −0.1 | +0.9 | +0.1 | +1.2 | +0.8 | +2.8 |
| 2025 | −0.2 | +3.3 | +3.9 | +3.1 | +0.8 | −0.7 | ±0.0 | +0.6 | +0.2 | +0.2 | +0.9 | −0.3 |
+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 (Q3234165) · 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.
