Lake · Sweden · Norway
Stora Le
Lake in Dalsland, Sweden and Østfold, Norway
- Area
- 133km²
- Max depth
- 99m
- Average depth
- 40m
- Elevation
- 104m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 426km
- Volume
- 5.4km³
Stora Le is a lake in Sweden. It covers 133 km². On average it is 40 m deep, and 99 m at its deepest point. Its surface lies 104 m above sea level.
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Stay, sail and get there
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The water
How warm is Stora Le?
The water is warmest in July, around 20 °C at the surface, and coldest in January, around 0 °C. The surface averages 20 °C or more in July: comfortable for most swimmers.
The lake usually freezes over for about 81 days a year, from around 31 December to 21 March.
On the shore, afternoons reach 21 °C on average in July and -2 °C in January. The driest month is March (52 mm of rain), the wettest August (119 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (92 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 | — | -2 | -7 | 78 | 14 | 0.4 | 8 |
| February | Ice | — | -1 | -7 | 59 | 12 | 1.8 | 8 |
| March | Ice | — | 3 | -4 | 52 | 11 | 4.8 | 8 |
| April | 4 | 7 | 9 | 1 | 57 | 11 | 6.6 | 8 |
| May | 11 | 14 | 15 | 6 | 85 | 13 | 8.2 | 8 |
| June | 17 | 19 | 18 | 10 | 91 | 15 | 9.4 | 8 |
| July | 20 | 20 | 21 | 13 | 108 | 16 | 8.2 | 7 |
| August | 19 | 20 | 19 | 12 | 119 | 16 | 6.6 | 8 |
| September | 15 | 17 | 15 | 8 | 86 | 13 | 5.1 | 8 |
| October | 10 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 101 | 15 | 2.5 | 8 |
| November | 6 | 8 | 3 | -1 | 92 | 16 | 0.8 | 8 |
| December | 2 | 3 | -1 | -5 | 77 | 14 | 0.3 | 8 |
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 4.7 years before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 2,670 km² of land.
- About 36 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
- Its shoreline is 10.4 times longer than a circle of the same area: plenty of bays and inlets.
Around the shore
What's around Stora Le
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 14beaches and swimming spots
Bränneelandet and 13 more
- 15campsites
scandtrack, DANO 35 Uddarna - Flötefjorden, DANO 14 Getön Väst - Foxen, DANO 13 Getön Syd - Foxen, DANO 40 Kalvnäset Nord - Flötefjorden and 10 more
- 1boat hire and water-sport clubs
Canodal / Kanu King
- 7marinas and slipways
Lennartsfors gästhamn, kanotportage, Holmerudsfors Gästhamn, Dal-Eds Gästhamn and 3 more
- 2ferry piers
- 2viewpoints
- 16hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Hotel Carl XII, Turistgården Töcksfors, Victoria Gränshotell, Bergstugan, Stationshuset bed and breakfast i Ed and 11 more
- —fishing spots
- 11restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Ed2,994 people
- Töcksfors1,221 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Karlstad Airport (KSD), 83 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 | -2.1 | -1.2 | 3.1 | 9.4 | 14.6 | 18.5 | 20.6 | 19.2 | 14.9 | 8.4 | 3.1 | -0.8 |
| 2020 | +6.2 | +4.7 | +1.4 | +0.8 | −1.2 | +3.3 | −3.0 | +1.3 | +0.5 | +1.2 | +3.2 | +2.1 |
| 2021 | −3.7 | −2.5 | +1.9 | −1.0 | −1.3 | +2.3 | +2.1 | −0.4 | +0.5 | +2.0 | +0.5 | −2.7 |
| 2022 | +2.8 | +3.0 | +2.4 | −0.5 | −0.1 | +1.9 | −0.3 | +1.5 | −0.4 | +2.1 | +1.7 | −2.8 |
| 2023 | +2.1 | +3.0 | −1.1 | +0.2 | +1.5 | +3.6 | −1.7 | ±0.0 | +2.5 | −0.9 | −3.7 | −3.5 |
| 2024 | −2.7 | +1.0 | +1.1 | −1.3 | +4.2 | −0.4 | −0.9 | +0.2 | +1.4 | +2.0 | +1.1 | +2.7 |
| 2025 | +1.1 | +1.1 | +2.7 | +2.7 | −0.1 | −0.3 | +2.5 | −0.2 | +1.3 | +0.9 | +1.3 | +3.4 |
+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 (Q126109) · 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.
