Lake · Germany
Templiner See
Lake in Brandenburg, Germany
- Area
- 4.8km²
- Average depth
- 5.1m
- Elevation
- 29m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 21km
- Volume
- 0.024km³
Templiner See is a lake in Germany. It covers 4.8 km². On average it is 5.1 m deep. Its surface lies 29 m above sea level.
Plan your visit
Stay, sail and get there
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The water
How warm is Templiner See?
The water is warmest in July, around 23 °C at the surface, and coldest in January, around 0 °C. The surface averages 20 °C or more from June to August: comfortable for most swimmers.
On the shore, afternoons reach 26 °C on average in July and 2 °C in January. The driest month is April (28 mm of rain), the wettest July (81 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (85 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 | 0 | 0 | 2 | -3 | 54 | 12 | 0.8 | 19 |
| February | 2 | 3 | 4 | -3 | 38 | 10 | 2.2 | 18 |
| March | 6 | 9 | 8 | -1 | 40 | 11 | 3.6 | 18 |
| April | 12 | 15 | 14 | 4 | 28 | 8 | 6.0 | 16 |
| May | 17 | 20 | 20 | 8 | 53 | 10 | 6.6 | 15 |
| June | 22 | 23 | 24 | 13 | 57 | 12 | 7.0 | 15 |
| July | 23 | 23 | 26 | 15 | 81 | 13 | 6.4 | 15 |
| August | 22 | 23 | 26 | 14 | 58 | 12 | 6.0 | 14 |
| September | 19 | 21 | 21 | 10 | 49 | 9 | 5.0 | 15 |
| October | 13 | 16 | 14 | 5 | 49 | 10 | 2.9 | 16 |
| November | 7 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 49 | 10 | 1.0 | 17 |
| December | 2 | 4 | 3 | -1 | 48 | 12 | 0.4 | 18 |
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 days before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 15,243 km² of land.
- About 62 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
- Its shoreline is 2.7 times longer than a circle of the same area: plenty of bays and inlets.
Around the shore
What's around Templiner See
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 21beaches and swimming spots
Badestelle, Waldbad Templin, Summer Lounge, Entenufer, FKK-Strand and 16 more
- 2campsites
Campingpark Sanssouci, Campingplatz Himmelreich
- 16boat hire and water-sport clubs
Bootsvermietung Moisl & Strandbar „Skihütte“, USV Potsdam Abteilung Segeln, SUP TRIP Station Potsdam, Wassersportstation am Templiner See, Surfschule and 11 more
- 48marinas and slipways
Anleger Neustädter Havelbucht, Lachmann Werft GbR, Marina Himmelreich, Potsdamer Ruder-Gesellschaft, Wassersportfreunde Pirschheide Potsdam and 43 more
- 18ferry piers
Hermannswerder/Fähre, Auf dem Kiewitt/Fähre, Inselhotel Potsdam-Hermannswerder, Caputher Gemünde, Forsthaus / Strandbad Templin and 13 more
- 26viewpoints
Havelblick am Grünen Weg, Dachterrasse, Kaiser-Friedrich-Blick, Aussichtsplattform Caputher Gemünde, Potsdam Panorama and 21 more
- 64hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Pension Sanssouci, Müllerhof, Wolff, Hotel am Großen Waisenhaus, Pension Remise Blumberg and 59 more
- —fishing spots
- 210restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Potsdam184,754 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER), 33 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 | 1.9 | 3.7 | 8.0 | 14.5 | 19.6 | 23.9 | 26.0 | 25.5 | 20.6 | 14.0 | 7.4 | 3.1 |
| 2020 | +3.6 | +4.1 | +1.2 | +1.4 | −1.7 | +1.1 | −1.0 | +2.4 | +1.2 | +0.3 | +1.2 | +0.8 |
| 2021 | −0.8 | −0.9 | +0.9 | −3.5 | −3.3 | +3.3 | −0.1 | −2.6 | +0.5 | +0.6 | +0.3 | −0.3 |
| 2022 | +2.7 | +3.8 | +1.6 | −1.6 | +1.3 | +2.8 | +1.0 | +3.1 | −1.1 | +3.7 | +1.0 | −0.3 |
| 2023 | +3.7 | +2.0 | +0.9 | −2.2 | −0.1 | +1.7 | −0.1 | −0.3 | +4.9 | +1.6 | +0.5 | +1.5 |
| 2024 | +1.0 | +5.2 | +3.6 | +0.6 | +1.7 | −0.4 | +0.3 | +2.4 | +2.7 | +2.0 | ±0.0 | +1.7 |
| 2025 | +1.5 | +0.4 | +3.2 | +2.3 | −0.2 | +1.9 | −0.9 | −0.2 | +1.1 | +0.1 | −0.1 | +1.5 |
+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 (Q883094) · 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.
