Reservoir · Poland
Wdzydze Lake
Lake in northern Poland
- Area
- 13.7km²
- Max depth
- 70m
- Average depth
- 9.5m
- Elevation
- 130m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 68km
- Volume
- 0.130km³
Wdzydze Lake is a reservoir in Poland. It covers 13.7 km². On average it is 9.5 m deep, and 70 m at its deepest point. Its surface lies 130 m above sea level.
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The water
How warm is Wdzydze Lake?
The water is warmest in July, around 22 °C at the surface, and coldest in February, around 0 °C. The surface averages 20 °C or more from June to August: comfortable for most swimmers.
The lake usually freezes over for about 43 days a year, from around 13 January to 24 February.
On the shore, afternoons reach 24 °C on average in July and -1 °C in January. The driest month is April (36 mm of rain), the wettest July (90 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (85 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 | Ice | — | -1 | -6 | 50 | 12 | 0.4 | 20 |
| February | Ice | — | 1 | -5 | 37 | 10 | 1.9 | 20 |
| March | 2 | 4 | 6 | -2 | 42 | 11 | 4.0 | 19 |
| April | 7 | 10 | 12 | 2 | 36 | 10 | 7.0 | 17 |
| May | 14 | 18 | 18 | 7 | 63 | 12 | 8.6 | 16 |
| June | 20 | 22 | 21 | 11 | 63 | 14 | 8.9 | 16 |
| July | 22 | 22 | 24 | 14 | 90 | 15 | 7.6 | 16 |
| August | 21 | 22 | 24 | 13 | 72 | 13 | 7.0 | 15 |
| September | 17 | 19 | 19 | 9 | 57 | 11 | 5.5 | 16 |
| October | 12 | 14 | 12 | 4 | 56 | 12 | 2.7 | 18 |
| November | 7 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 55 | 12 | 0.5 | 18 |
| December | 2 | 4 | 1 | -3 | 55 | 13 | 0.1 | 20 |
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 8 months before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 514 km² of land.
- About 6.1 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
- Its shoreline is 5.2 times longer than a circle of the same area: plenty of bays and inlets.
Around the shore
What's around Wdzydze Lake
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 9beaches and swimming spots
Jacht Klub "Portowiec" and 8 more
- 10campsites
Leśne Pole Namiotowe nr 3 - Perła Kaszub, Leśne Pole Namiotowe nr 2 - Perła Kaszub, Kamper Park Wdzydze, Przystań nad Wdą, Stanica Wodna PTTK and 5 more
- 2boat hire and water-sport clubs
- 7marinas and slipways
Stanica Wodna PTTK, Jacht Klub "Portowiec" and 5 more
- —ferry piers
- 3viewpoints
Pomost widokowy
- 26hotels, B&Bs and chalets
"Wieczorne Mgły" Agroturystyka, Perła Kaszub, Hotel Gołuń, Ośrodek Wypoczynkowy Politechniki Gdańskiej, Hotel Niedźwiadek and 21 more
- —fishing spots
- 11restaurants and cafés
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Gdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport (GDN), 57 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 | -0.8 | 1.0 | 5.5 | 12.2 | 17.7 | 21.4 | 23.8 | 23.5 | 18.7 | 11.9 | 5.6 | 1.2 |
| 2020 | +4.4 | +4.3 | +1.1 | +0.3 | −3.1 | +0.6 | −1.3 | +1.9 | +1.7 | +1.0 | +1.8 | −0.1 |
| 2021 | −0.5 | −2.9 | +0.7 | −2.8 | −2.0 | +2.8 | +1.7 | −2.1 | +0.1 | +1.3 | +1.0 | −1.7 |
| 2022 | +3.2 | +3.6 | +1.7 | −1.6 | −0.5 | +2.6 | +0.3 | +3.3 | −1.8 | +2.7 | ±0.0 | −1.2 |
| 2023 | +4.0 | +2.1 | +0.8 | −0.8 | +0.3 | +2.3 | +0.2 | +0.2 | +4.9 | +1.3 | −0.3 | +1.1 |
| 2024 | +1.5 | +4.7 | +3.3 | +0.9 | +2.7 | +0.8 | +0.2 | +1.3 | +3.3 | +1.6 | −0.1 | +2.5 |
| 2025 | +3.2 | +0.4 | +4.1 | +2.6 | −1.8 | +0.4 | −0.2 | −0.9 | +1.2 | −0.2 | −0.3 | +1.3 |
+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual
About 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 (Q127761) · 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.
