Lake · Haiti
Trou Caïman
Saltwater lake
- Area
- 5.2km²
- Average depth
- 1.8m
- Elevation
- 24m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 12km
- Volume
- 0.009km³
Trou Caïman is a lake in Haiti. It covers 5.2 km². On average it is 1.8 m deep. Its surface lies 24 m above sea level.
Plan your visit
Stay, sail and get there
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The water
How warm is Trou Caïman?
The water is warmest in September, around 30 °C at the surface, and coldest in January, around 26 °C. The surface averages 20 °C or more from January to December: comfortable for most swimmers.
It does not normally freeze in winter.
On the shore, afternoons reach 31 °C on average in August and 28 °C in December. The driest month is February (17 mm of rain), the wettest October (76 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (195 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 | 26 | 26 | 28 | 18 | 19 | 4 | 8.1 | 10 |
| February | 26 | 26 | 29 | 18 | 17 | 3 | 8.6 | 10 |
| March | 27 | 27 | 30 | 19 | 26 | 5 | 8.4 | 9 |
| April | 28 | 28 | 31 | 20 | 40 | 5 | 8.0 | 9 |
| May | 28 | 28 | 30 | 21 | 64 | 8 | 7.5 | 10 |
| June | 28 | 29 | 30 | 22 | 41 | 6 | 8.3 | 12 |
| July | 29 | 29 | 31 | 22 | 38 | 4 | 9.0 | 12 |
| August | 30 | 30 | 31 | 22 | 66 | 6 | 8.5 | 11 |
| September | 30 | 30 | 31 | 22 | 45 | 8 | 7.9 | 8 |
| October | 29 | 30 | 30 | 22 | 76 | 9 | 7.1 | 8 |
| November | 28 | 29 | 29 | 20 | 62 | 7 | 7.4 | 8 |
| December | 26 | 27 | 28 | 19 | 28 | 4 | 8.0 | 9 |
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 16 months before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 19 km² of land.
- About 0.2 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
Around the shore
What's around Trou Caïman
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- —beaches and swimming spots
- —campsites
- —boat hire and water-sport clubs
- —marinas and slipways
- —ferry piers
- —viewpoints
- —hotels, B&Bs and chalets
- —fishing spots
- —restaurants and cafés
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Toussaint Louverture International Airport (PAP), 17 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 | 28.4 | 29.3 | 30.0 | 30.8 | 30.1 | 30.3 | 31.2 | 31.2 | 30.7 | 29.6 | 28.9 | 28.3 |
| 2020 | −0.1 | +0.4 | −0.3 | +2.0 | +1.3 | +2.0 | +1.5 | −1.6 | −0.3 | +0.1 | −2.2 | −2.0 |
| 2021 | −1.0 | −2.2 | −1.2 | −0.3 | +1.2 | −0.7 | −1.8 | −1.1 | −1.2 | −1.5 | −0.8 | −1.2 |
| 2022 | −0.9 | −0.5 | +0.3 | −1.4 | +0.5 | +1.2 | −0.1 | +0.7 | +0.5 | +1.2 | +1.5 | +0.8 |
| 2023 | +0.8 | +1.2 | +1.1 | −0.9 | +1.0 | +0.3 | +1.5 | +1.9 | +2.2 | +1.9 | +0.8 | −0.6 |
| 2024 | −0.2 | −0.3 | +2.0 | +1.4 | +1.7 | +0.1 | −0.3 | +0.1 | +1.0 | +0.7 | −1.2 | −1.9 |
| 2025 | −0.8 | ±0.0 | +0.4 | −0.2 | +1.1 | +1.1 | +1.6 | +2.0 | +0.5 | −1.6 | −2.0 | −1.1 |
+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual
Nearby
More lakes nearby
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| Outline, area, depth, volume | HydroLAKES v1.0 (Messager et al. 2016) · CC BY 4.0 |
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| 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 (Q2805779) · 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.
