Lake · Russia
Teletskoe
Lake in Altai Republic, Russia
- Area
- 218km²
- Max depth
- 325m
- Average depth
- 144m
- Elevation
- 430m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 191km
- Volume
- 31.5km³
Teletskoe is a lake in Russia. It covers 218 km². On average it is 144 m deep, and 325 m at its deepest point. Its surface lies 430 m above sea level.
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The water
How warm is Teletskoe?
The water is warmest in August, around 15 °C at the surface, and coldest in March, around 0 °C. Even at its warmest, the surface stays below 17 °C on average: this is cold water.
The lake usually freezes over for about 22 days a year, from around 9 March to 30 March.
On the shore, afternoons reach 20 °C on average in July and -13 °C in January. The driest month is February (19 mm of rain), the wettest July (123 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (147 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 | 1 | 1 | -13 | -23 | 20 | 6 | 4.6 | 10 |
| February | 0 | 1 | -9 | -22 | 19 | 6 | 6.1 | 9 |
| March | Ice | — | -2 | -14 | 34 | 9 | 7.2 | 9 |
| April | 1 | 2 | 6 | -6 | 73 | 14 | 7.0 | 8 |
| May | 4 | 6 | 12 | 0 | 99 | 16 | 7.4 | 8 |
| June | 10 | 13 | 19 | 6 | 102 | 18 | 8.4 | 6 |
| July | 15 | 16 | 20 | 8 | 123 | 20 | 7.5 | 6 |
| August | 15 | 16 | 18 | 6 | 104 | 16 | 7.3 | 6 |
| September | 12 | 14 | 12 | 0 | 69 | 13 | 6.1 | 6 |
| October | 7 | 9 | 4 | -6 | 56 | 13 | 3.9 | 8 |
| November | 3 | 4 | -5 | -15 | 45 | 11 | 2.9 | 9 |
| December | 2 | 2 | -12 | -21 | 25 | 9 | 3.4 | 10 |
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 4.6 years before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 19,893 km² of land.
- About 217 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
- Its shoreline is 3.6 times longer than a circle of the same area: plenty of bays and inlets.
Around the shore
What's around Teletskoe
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 1beaches and swimming spots
- 33campsites
Altyn Tuu, Turbaza, Jurtok, Cedar Cave and 29 more
- 1boat hire and water-sport clubs
- 17marinas and slipways
- 16ferry piers
- 18viewpoints
Korbu waterfall and 17 more
- 60hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Altay Village Teletskoe, Edelweiss and 58 more
- —fishing spots
- 28restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Iogach1,324 people
- Artybash1,200 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Spichenkovo Airport (NOZ), 276 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 | -12.7 | -9.3 | -2.0 | 5.8 | 12.3 | 18.6 | 19.7 | 18.2 | 12.0 | 3.7 | -5.4 | -11.6 |
| 2020 | +1.8 | +2.8 | −0.9 | +6.3 | +3.0 | −2.7 | −1.2 | −1.0 | −1.5 | −3.1 | −0.1 | −2.0 |
| 2021 | −1.2 | +0.9 | −2.0 | −3.1 | −0.5 | −2.5 | +0.5 | ±0.0 | −1.1 | −0.6 | +0.1 | +2.3 |
| 2022 | +2.3 | −0.5 | −3.0 | +1.1 | +5.3 | +1.2 | −1.2 | −1.8 | +2.2 | −0.3 | −1.9 | −1.9 |
| 2023 | +0.2 | +1.8 | +2.3 | −4.5 | −4.0 | +0.5 | +1.4 | +0.7 | −0.7 | +3.2 | +1.9 | −0.1 |
| 2024 | +3.2 | −2.8 | −0.2 | −0.3 | +2.5 | +1.3 | +2.0 | +1.2 | −3.3 | +0.5 | +1.0 | +0.7 |
| 2025 | +3.1 | +1.1 | −0.2 | +2.3 | +1.1 | +2.3 | +1.2 | −2.3 | −0.9 | −3.5 | +1.2 | +1.6 |
+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual
Nearby
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| 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 (Q217109) · 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.
