Lake · Germany
Tegernsee
Lake in urban municipality Tegernsee, Bavaria, Germany
- Area
- 8.5km²
- Max depth
- 73m
- Average depth
- 14m
- Elevation
- 725m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 20km
- Volume
- 0.116km³
Tegernsee is a lake in Germany. It covers 8.5 km². On average it is 14 m deep, and 73 m at its deepest point. Its surface lies 725 m above sea level.
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The water
How warm is Tegernsee?
The water is warmest in August, around 20 °C at the surface, and coldest in February, around 2 °C. The surface averages 20 °C or more from July to August: comfortable for most swimmers.
It does not normally freeze in winter.
On the shore, afternoons reach 21 °C on average in July and 0 °C in January. The driest month is February (66 mm of rain), the wettest August (179 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (128 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 | 2 | 3 | 0 | -9 | 83 | 13 | 3.3 | 7 |
| February | 2 | 2 | 1 | -8 | 66 | 12 | 4.6 | 7 |
| March | 4 | 5 | 5 | -4 | 81 | 16 | 5.5 | 6 |
| April | 7 | 9 | 11 | 0 | 83 | 15 | 6.0 | 6 |
| May | 12 | 14 | 15 | 4 | 144 | 20 | 6.1 | 6 |
| June | 17 | 19 | 19 | 9 | 170 | 21 | 7.0 | 5 |
| July | 20 | 21 | 21 | 10 | 173 | 21 | 7.3 | 5 |
| August | 20 | 21 | 20 | 10 | 179 | 20 | 6.8 | 5 |
| September | 17 | 19 | 16 | 6 | 118 | 15 | 5.5 | 5 |
| October | 13 | 15 | 12 | 2 | 93 | 14 | 4.6 | 6 |
| November | 8 | 10 | 6 | -2 | 70 | 13 | 3.0 | 6 |
| December | 4 | 6 | 1 | -7 | 73 | 14 | 2.8 | 7 |
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 8 months before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 211 km² of land.
- About 5.6 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
Around the shore
What's around Tegernsee
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 20beaches and swimming spots
Hundestrand and 19 more
- 1campsites
Campingplatz Wallberg
- 13boat hire and water-sport clubs
Tegernsee - Friedl, Tegernsee - Schorn, Tegernsee - Tegernsee Yachtclub (Fischerei), Tegernsee - Hotel Guggemoos, Tegernsee - Schweinebucht and 8 more
- 11marinas and slipways
Yacht-Club Bad Wiessee e.V., Tegernsee Touring Yacht-Club e.V., Kaltenbrunner Catamaran Club e. V., Yacht-Club am Tegernsee e.V., Segel- und Surfschule Stickl and 6 more
- 14ferry piers
Tegernsee Seesauna, Bad Wiessee Ortsmitte, Gmund Seeglas, Tegernsee Rathaus Steg 2, Tegernsee Rathaus Steg 1 and 9 more
- 15viewpoints
Prinzenruh and 14 more
- 103hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Gästehaus Liedschreiber, Bethen, Haus Hirschmann, Von Khreninger's Ferienwohnungen, Krinnerhof Ferienwohnung Gästezimmer and 98 more
- —fishing spots
- 104restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Gmund am Tegernsee6,086 people
- Rottach-Egern5,106 people
- Bad Wiessee4,293 people
- Tegernsee3,770 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Innsbruck Airport (INN), 59 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 | -0.4 | 0.6 | 5.2 | 10.9 | 15.1 | 19.0 | 20.7 | 20.4 | 15.7 | 11.6 | 5.6 | 0.7 |
| 2020 | +3.1 | +3.3 | +0.7 | +2.8 | −1.0 | −1.4 | −0.1 | +0.8 | +1.3 | −1.8 | +2.4 | +0.4 |
| 2021 | −1.3 | +3.4 | −0.6 | −3.1 | −3.1 | +2.3 | +0.4 | −2.2 | +2.3 | −0.5 | −0.7 | +0.1 |
| 2022 | +1.1 | +1.5 | +2.6 | −1.2 | +2.0 | +3.0 | +1.7 | +1.0 | −0.6 | +4.5 | +1.1 | +1.0 |
| 2023 | +1.3 | +2.3 | +2.2 | −3.3 | −0.5 | +1.3 | +1.1 | +1.4 | +5.0 | +3.8 | −1.6 | +1.3 |
| 2024 | +1.3 | +5.4 | +3.2 | +0.6 | +0.9 | +0.5 | +1.8 | +3.0 | ±0.0 | +2.3 | +1.1 | +0.5 |
| 2025 | +2.2 | +3.9 | +2.9 | +2.1 | −1.2 | +3.8 | −1.1 | +0.7 | +1.8 | −1.3 | −0.2 | +2.2 |
+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual
AustriaAbout 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 (Q253971) · 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.
