Lake · Germany
Wendsee
Lake in Brandenburg, Germany
- Area
- 17.2km²
- Average depth
- 3.6m
- Elevation
- 26m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 53km
- Volume
- 0.061km³
Wendsee is a lake in Germany. It covers 17.2 km². On average it is 3.6 m deep. Its surface lies 26 m above sea level.
Plan your visit
Stay, sail and get there
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The water
How warm is Wendsee?
The water is warmest in July, around 23 °C at the surface, and coldest in January, around 0 °C. The surface averages 20 °C or more from June to August: comfortable for most swimmers.
It does not normally freeze in winter.
On the shore, afternoons reach 26 °C on average in July and 2 °C in January. The driest month is April (29 mm of rain), the wettest July (82 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (111 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 | 0 | 1 | 2 | -3 | 56 | 12 | 0.8 | 19 |
| February | 2 | 4 | 4 | -3 | 39 | 10 | 2.2 | 18 |
| March | 6 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 41 | 11 | 3.6 | 18 |
| April | 12 | 14 | 15 | 4 | 29 | 8 | 6.0 | 15 |
| May | 17 | 19 | 19 | 8 | 53 | 11 | 6.6 | 15 |
| June | 22 | 23 | 23 | 12 | 56 | 12 | 7.0 | 15 |
| July | 23 | 23 | 26 | 15 | 82 | 13 | 6.4 | 14 |
| August | 22 | 23 | 25 | 14 | 60 | 12 | 6.0 | 14 |
| September | 18 | 20 | 20 | 10 | 50 | 9 | 5.0 | 15 |
| October | 12 | 15 | 14 | 5 | 49 | 10 | 2.9 | 16 |
| November | 6 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 49 | 11 | 1.0 | 16 |
| December | 2 | 4 | 3 | -1 | 50 | 12 | 0.4 | 18 |
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 10 days before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 17,654 km² of land.
- About 70 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
- Its shoreline is 3.6 times longer than a circle of the same area: plenty of bays and inlets.
Around the shore
What's around Wendsee
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 24beaches and swimming spots
Malge, Anlandungsstelle, Malge – FKK Strand and 21 more
- 8campsites
Buhnenhaus, Camping Malge - Wohnmobilstellplatz, Seecamp Malge, Camping- und Freizeitpark am Plauer See, Buhnenhaus Camping and 3 more
- 2boat hire and water-sport clubs
Sportgemeinschaft Einheit e.V.
- 29marinas and slipways
Kirchmöseraner Wasserwanderer, Brauckmann Boote, Marina Camping Ferienpark Plauer See, Malge Marina & Camping, Eisenbahner-Segel-Club-Kirchmöser and 24 more
- 4ferry piers
Fähre Buhnenhaus, Fähre Neuendorf, Buhnenhaus, Anlegestelle Fähre
- 5viewpoints
Aussichtsturm Mühlenberg, Aussichtspunkt, Holzturm, Tontaubenschießstand
- 24hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Axxon Hotel, Hotel Ikarus, Gut Wendgräben, Villa Lindenhof, Familienferienstätte St.Ursula and 19 more
- —fishing spots
- 19restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Wusterwitz3,184 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER), 69 km in a straight line.
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Photos
Seen by visitors
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 | 2.1 | 3.9 | 8.2 | 14.6 | 19.3 | 23.3 | 25.5 | 25.1 | 20.4 | 13.9 | 7.5 | 3.3 |
| 2020 | +3.7 | +4.2 | +1.2 | +1.4 | −1.8 | +1.2 | −0.9 | +2.6 | +1.2 | +0.3 | +1.3 | +0.6 |
| 2021 | −0.8 | −0.9 | +1.1 | −3.4 | −3.0 | +3.0 | −0.2 | −2.5 | +0.7 | +0.7 | +0.4 | −0.1 |
| 2022 | +2.8 | +3.9 | +1.6 | −1.6 | +1.2 | +2.9 | +1.2 | +3.1 | −1.0 | +3.8 | +0.9 | −0.4 |
| 2023 | +3.6 | +2.0 | +0.9 | −2.0 | +0.1 | +1.8 | −0.2 | −0.5 | +4.7 | +1.7 | +0.5 | +1.6 |
| 2024 | +1.1 | +5.2 | +3.5 | +0.6 | +2.0 | −0.5 | −0.2 | +1.9 | +2.3 | +1.9 | −0.1 | +1.7 |
| 2025 | +1.3 | +0.4 | +3.1 | +2.0 | −0.3 | +1.7 | −0.6 | ±0.0 | +1.2 | +0.3 | ±0.0 | +1.5 |
+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 (Q1640014) · 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.
