Reservoir · Luxembourg
Upper Sûre Lake
Reservoir in Luxembourg
- Area
- 1.6km²
- Average depth
- 38m
- Elevation
- 323m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 18km
- Volume
- 0.062km³
Upper Sûre Lake is a reservoir in Luxembourg. It covers 1.6 km². On average it is 38 m deep. Its surface lies 323 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 23 °C on average in July and 2 °C in January. The driest month is April (52 mm of rain), the wettest December (93 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 | -2 | 84 | 16 | 1.3 | 20 |
| February | — | — | 4 | -2 | 73 | 14 | 2.4 | 19 |
| March | — | — | 8 | 0 | 69 | 14 | 4.2 | 18 |
| April | — | — | 13 | 3 | 52 | 12 | 6.3 | 15 |
| May | — | — | 17 | 7 | 76 | 14 | 6.7 | 15 |
| June | — | — | 20 | 10 | 76 | 14 | 7.1 | 14 |
| July | — | — | 23 | 12 | 76 | 14 | 7.0 | 14 |
| August | — | — | 22 | 12 | 85 | 14 | 6.2 | 13 |
| September | — | — | 18 | 8 | 60 | 12 | 5.5 | 14 |
| October | — | — | 13 | 5 | 72 | 14 | 3.5 | 17 |
| November | — | — | 7 | 2 | 79 | 16 | 1.6 | 17 |
| December | — | — | 3 | -1 | 93 | 17 | 1.0 | 19 |
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 months before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 426 km² of land.
- About 6.0 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
- Its shoreline is 3.9 times longer than a circle of the same area: plenty of bays and inlets.
Around the shore
What's around Upper Sûre Lake
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 9beaches and swimming spots
Insenborn, Fuussefeld, Rommwiss, Burfelt, Lultzhausen and 4 more
- 3campsites
Camping "im Aal", Camping Liefrange, Aire de camping-car Camping Liefrange
- —boat hire and water-sport clubs
- 15marinas and slipways
Slipway Liefrange, Insenborn, Liefrange and 12 more
- —ferry piers
- 22viewpoints
Belvédère Burfelt, Bléck op Esch-Sauer, Lake Sure Viewpoint, Tempelskamp and 18 more
- 5hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Gourmet & Relax Hotel De La Sure, Hôtel Beau Site, Le Postillon, Auberge de Jeunesse Lultzhausen
- —fishing spots
- 5restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Esch-sur-Sûre333 people
- Bavigne132 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Luxembourg-Findel International Airport (LUX), 38 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 | 3.6 | 7.8 | 12.9 | 16.7 | 20.4 | 22.7 | 22.2 | 18.5 | 13.0 | 7.2 | 3.4 |
| 2020 | +2.2 | +3.4 | +0.4 | +3.2 | +0.6 | +0.3 | +1.2 | +3.9 | +3.4 | −1.1 | +1.8 | +1.0 |
| 2021 | −0.8 | +2.1 | +0.6 | −2.8 | −3.3 | +1.8 | −1.8 | −2.6 | +1.5 | +0.1 | −1.0 | +1.1 |
| 2022 | +0.9 | +2.8 | +2.3 | −0.5 | +2.3 | +2.2 | +3.3 | +5.3 | −0.1 | +3.1 | +1.5 | +0.3 |
| 2023 | +1.9 | +1.9 | +0.4 | −1.8 | +0.7 | +3.0 | +0.2 | −0.4 | +4.1 | +2.1 | ±0.0 | +1.9 |
| 2024 | +0.1 | +4.1 | +2.2 | −0.8 | +0.1 | −1.0 | −1.0 | +1.0 | −0.5 | +1.3 | +0.1 | +0.6 |
| 2025 | +0.4 | +0.2 | +2.5 | +1.8 | +1.1 | +2.5 | +0.3 | +1.9 | −0.7 | −0.3 | +0.3 | +2.1 |
+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual
Germany
BelgiumAbout these numbers
| 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 (Q2621998) · 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.
