Reservoir · Denmark
The Lakes, Copenhagen
Lake in Denmark
- Area
- 0.5km²
- Average depth
- 2.1m
- Elevation
- 8m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 6.2km
- Volume
- 0.001km³
The Lakes, Copenhagen is a reservoir in Denmark. It covers 0.5 km². On average it is 2.1 m deep. Its surface lies 8 m above sea level.
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Stay, sail and get there
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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 21 °C on average in July and 2 °C in January. The driest month is April (34 mm of rain), the wettest August (83 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 | — | — | 2 | 0 | 61 | 13 | 0.4 | 24 |
| February | — | — | 3 | -1 | 48 | 11 | 1.7 | 23 |
| March | — | — | 5 | 0 | 42 | 10 | 4.5 | 22 |
| April | — | — | 10 | 4 | 34 | 9 | 7.3 | 19 |
| May | — | — | 15 | 8 | 46 | 10 | 8.6 | 18 |
| June | — | — | 18 | 12 | 64 | 12 | 9.0 | 18 |
| July | — | — | 21 | 15 | 69 | 13 | 8.3 | 17 |
| August | — | — | 21 | 15 | 83 | 15 | 6.9 | 18 |
| September | — | — | 17 | 12 | 54 | 12 | 5.4 | 20 |
| October | — | — | 12 | 8 | 70 | 14 | 2.8 | 22 |
| November | — | — | 8 | 5 | 62 | 14 | 0.7 | 22 |
| December | — | — | 4 | 1 | 63 | 14 | 0.0 | 23 |
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 6 months before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 5 km² of land.
- About 0.1 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
- Its shoreline is 2.5 times longer than a circle of the same area: plenty of bays and inlets.
Around the shore
What's around The Lakes, Copenhagen
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 8beaches and swimming spots
Halfdansgade Badezone, Kalvebod Bølge Badezone, Badezone Sandkaj and 5 more
- —campsites
- 7boat hire and water-sport clubs
myKayak, B&W Roklub, DFDS Roklub, Copenhagen Boat Rent, Hey Captain and 2 more
- 4marinas and slipways
Søndre Frihavn Lystbådehavn, Toldbodens Bådehavn, Langelinie Lystbådehavn, Slip
- 3ferry piers
Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Terminal Go Nordic Cruiseline, Copenhagen Ferry Terminal
- 10viewpoints
Christiansborg Slotstårn, Grand view and 8 more
- 104hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Cabinn City, Cab-Inn, Cab-Inn Scandinavia, The Square, Copenhagen Island and 99 more
- —fishing spots
- 1,034restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Copenhagen1,153,615 people
- Frederiksberg95,029 people
- Valby46,161 people
- Indre By26,223 people
- Christianshavn10,140 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Copenhagen Kastrup Airport (CPH), 9 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 | 2.5 | 2.6 | 5.1 | 9.9 | 14.8 | 18.4 | 21.0 | 20.7 | 17.3 | 12.2 | 7.6 | 4.2 |
| 2020 | +3.4 | +3.6 | +1.7 | +1.2 | −0.9 | +1.6 | −1.9 | +2.1 | +1.4 | +0.8 | +1.7 | +1.0 |
| 2021 | −0.5 | −1.2 | +1.1 | −1.1 | −1.5 | +2.2 | +1.6 | −0.8 | +1.1 | +1.0 | +1.0 | −0.7 |
| 2022 | +2.3 | +3.1 | +1.4 | −0.1 | +0.2 | +0.6 | −0.5 | +2.2 | −0.4 | +2.3 | +1.5 | −1.0 |
| 2023 | +2.5 | +2.1 | +1.0 | −0.1 | ±0.0 | +2.4 | −1.0 | −0.9 | +2.4 | +0.9 | −0.9 | ±0.0 |
| 2024 | −0.3 | +2.7 | +1.2 | −0.2 | +1.7 | −0.1 | −0.8 | +0.6 | +1.3 | +1.2 | +0.6 | +1.8 |
| 2025 | +1.5 | +0.4 | +2.7 | +2.4 | ±0.0 | +0.3 | +0.5 | −0.1 | +1.5 | +0.8 | +0.1 | +1.6 |
+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual
SwedenAbout 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 (Q2277684) · 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.
