Lake · Croatia
Vransko Lake
Vrasnko jezero
Lake in the municipality of Pakoštane, Zadar County, Croatia
- Area
- 28.9km²
- Max depth
- 4m
- Average depth
- 10m
- Elevation
- -4m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 34km
- Volume
- 0.297km³
Vransko Lake is a lake in Croatia. It covers 28.9 km². On average it is 10 m deep, and 4 m at its deepest point. Its surface lies 4 m below sea level.
Plan your visit
Stay, sail and get there
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The water
How warm is Vransko Lake?
The water is warmest in July, around 26 °C at the surface, and coldest in January, around 4 °C. The surface averages 20 °C or more from June to September: comfortable for most swimmers.
It does not normally freeze in winter.
On the shore, afternoons reach 30 °C on average in August and 8 °C in January. The driest month is July (40 mm of rain), the wettest November (129 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (177 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 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 90 | 10 | 2.5 | 17 |
| February | 5 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 89 | 9 | 3.3 | 18 |
| March | 10 | 12 | 13 | 5 | 75 | 9 | 5.0 | 17 |
| April | 15 | 18 | 17 | 9 | 68 | 11 | 6.4 | 14 |
| May | 20 | 22 | 22 | 13 | 66 | 10 | 7.8 | 13 |
| June | 24 | 25 | 27 | 18 | 55 | 8 | 9.6 | 12 |
| July | 26 | 26 | 30 | 20 | 40 | 6 | 10.5 | 12 |
| August | 25 | 26 | 30 | 20 | 50 | 6 | 9.3 | 12 |
| September | 22 | 24 | 24 | 15 | 102 | 9 | 6.4 | 14 |
| October | 16 | 19 | 19 | 11 | 96 | 10 | 4.6 | 14 |
| November | 10 | 13 | 14 | 8 | 129 | 13 | 2.7 | 17 |
| December | 5 | 7 | 10 | 4 | 110 | 11 | 2.4 | 17 |
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 2.3 years before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 276 km² of land.
- About 4.0 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
Around the shore
What's around Vransko Lake
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 4beaches and swimming spots
Janice, Pod vruljom, Plaža Pakoštane
- 17campsites
Camp Vransko jezero Crkvine, Renata-Nina, Zora, Cuka, Autocamp and 12 more
- 4boat hire and water-sport clubs
Nautic Zone Pakostane Rent a boat & Dry marina
- 5marinas and slipways
Pakoštane II, Drage
- 1ferry piers
Pakoštane
- 9viewpoints
Kostelj, Vidikovac and 7 more
- 41hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Stipe, Villa Julia, Apartments Diana, Vila Olson No.17, Oleandra Apartments Drage and 36 more
- —fishing spots
- 35restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Pakoštane2,180 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Zadar Airport (ZAD), 25 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 | 8.1 | 9.1 | 12.7 | 17.0 | 21.7 | 26.7 | 30.2 | 30.2 | 24.3 | 19.3 | 14.2 | 9.5 |
| 2020 | +1.4 | +2.9 | +0.2 | +0.9 | −0.1 | −1.5 | ±0.0 | +1.1 | +1.7 | −1.1 | −0.1 | +1.9 |
| 2021 | −0.2 | +1.9 | −1.0 | −2.4 | −1.2 | +2.2 | +1.7 | +0.8 | +1.9 | −1.0 | +0.7 | +0.1 |
| 2022 | +0.1 | +1.7 | −0.6 | −1.0 | +2.7 | +3.5 | +3.1 | +1.1 | −0.2 | +3.5 | +1.0 | +2.8 |
| 2023 | +1.6 | +0.2 | +1.0 | −1.6 | −0.1 | −0.9 | +1.2 | +0.5 | +3.0 | +4.0 | +0.9 | +2.5 |
| 2024 | +1.9 | +4.1 | +2.4 | +1.7 | +0.6 | +1.8 | +2.6 | +3.5 | +0.3 | +1.7 | +0.5 | +0.4 |
| 2025 | +2.4 | +1.9 | +1.8 | +1.2 | −0.3 | +4.0 | +0.8 | +0.8 | +2.0 | −0.4 | +0.4 | +2.0 |
+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual
Nearby
More lakes nearby
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Bosnia and Herzegovina49.3 km² · 121 km away23°maxLake VranaCroatia5.2 km² · 139 km away25°maxRama LakeBosnia and Herzegovina11.2 km² · 157 km away25°maxBlidinje LakeBosnia and Herzegovina3.5 km² · 160 km away20°maxAbout 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 (Q1625342) · 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.
