Reservoir · Spain
Valdecañas reservoir
Reservoir on the Tagus river, Iberian peninsula
- Area
- 38.5km²
- Average depth
- 38m
- Elevation
- 299m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 119km
- Volume
- 1.4km³
Valdecañas reservoir is a reservoir in Spain. It covers 38.5 km². On average it is 38 m deep. Its surface lies 299 m above sea level.
Plan your visit
Stay, sail and get there
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The water
How warm is Valdecañas reservoir?
The water is warmest in July, around 27 °C at the surface, and coldest in January, around 10 °C. The surface averages 20 °C or more from May to October: comfortable for most swimmers.
It does not normally freeze in winter.
On the shore, afternoons reach 36 °C on average in July and 11 °C in January. The driest month is July (5 mm of rain), the wettest October (70 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (107 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 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 1 | 39 | 8 | 4.7 | 11 |
| February | 10 | 10 | 12 | 2 | 40 | 6 | 6.0 | 12 |
| March | 12 | 13 | 16 | 4 | 50 | 7 | 7.0 | 13 |
| April | 16 | 18 | 20 | 7 | 49 | 10 | 8.2 | 12 |
| May | 20 | 22 | 25 | 11 | 36 | 9 | 10.0 | 12 |
| June | 24 | 26 | 32 | 16 | 15 | 4 | 11.9 | 12 |
| July | 27 | 27 | 36 | 20 | 5 | 2 | 13.1 | 12 |
| August | 27 | 27 | 35 | 19 | 8 | 2 | 11.7 | 11 |
| September | 24 | 26 | 30 | 16 | 24 | 5 | 9.3 | 10 |
| October | 20 | 23 | 22 | 11 | 70 | 9 | 6.7 | 11 |
| November | 16 | 18 | 15 | 5 | 56 | 8 | 4.9 | 12 |
| December | 12 | 14 | 11 | 2 | 43 | 8 | 4.6 | 11 |
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 5 months before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 36,160 km² of land.
- About 115 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
- Its shoreline is 5.4 times longer than a circle of the same area: plenty of bays and inlets.
Around the shore
What's around Valdecañas reservoir
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 1beaches and swimming spots
- —campsites
- 1boat hire and water-sport clubs
- —marinas and slipways
- —ferry piers
- —viewpoints
- 1hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Vincci Valdecañas Golf
- —fishing spots
- 1restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Peraleda de la Mata1,545 people
- Bohonal de Ibor546 people
- Valdehúncar207 people
- Valdecañas de Tajo205 people
- Berrocalejo118 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Salamanca Airport (SLM), 127 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 | 10.8 | 12.5 | 16.0 | 19.5 | 24.9 | 31.5 | 35.5 | 34.9 | 29.5 | 22.4 | 14.9 | 11.4 |
| 2020 | +0.2 | +3.6 | +1.0 | −1.4 | +0.8 | −1.8 | +3.2 | −0.1 | ±0.0 | −1.5 | +1.3 | −0.9 |
| 2021 | −1.2 | +0.8 | +0.6 | −0.3 | −0.1 | −1.0 | −0.7 | +1.0 | −1.8 | +1.2 | −0.7 | +1.5 |
| 2022 | +1.2 | +3.6 | −0.8 | −0.4 | +3.7 | +1.1 | +4.0 | +1.7 | −1.0 | +2.4 | +1.7 | +1.9 |
| 2023 | −0.2 | −0.4 | +1.3 | +5.1 | +0.7 | −0.8 | +0.9 | +1.9 | −1.8 | +1.8 | +1.5 | +0.5 |
| 2024 | +1.7 | +1.9 | −0.7 | +1.7 | +0.1 | −1.3 | +1.4 | +2.9 | −0.8 | −0.5 | +2.9 | +1.8 |
| 2025 | +1.7 | +1.5 | −2.0 | −0.7 | −0.7 | +3.0 | +1.5 | +2.4 | +0.3 | +2.6 | −0.3 | −0.6 |
+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 (Q3379578) · 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.
