Lake · Vietnam
West Lake
Lake in Hanoi, Vietnam
- Area
- 5.7km²
- Average depth
- 3.0m
- Elevation
- 8m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 15km
- Volume
- 0.017km³
West Lake is a lake in Vietnam. It covers 5.7 km². On average it is 3.0 m deep. Its surface lies 8 m above sea level.
Plan your visit
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 32 °C on average in June and 20 °C in January. The driest month is February (22 mm of rain), the wettest August (322 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 | — | — | 20 | 11 | 32 | 4 | 1.3 | 10 |
| February | — | — | 23 | 13 | 22 | 6 | 1.5 | 11 |
| March | — | — | 27 | 16 | 49 | 10 | 1.4 | 11 |
| April | — | — | 30 | 20 | 78 | 11 | 2.7 | 11 |
| May | — | — | 32 | 23 | 179 | 18 | 4.8 | 10 |
| June | — | — | 32 | 25 | 201 | 21 | 5.3 | 8 |
| July | — | — | 32 | 25 | 300 | 23 | 5.0 | 8 |
| August | — | — | 31 | 25 | 322 | 23 | 4.9 | 8 |
| September | — | — | 30 | 23 | 223 | 17 | 5.0 | 9 |
| October | — | — | 28 | 20 | 124 | 11 | 4.2 | 9 |
| November | — | — | 25 | 16 | 52 | 6 | 4.0 | 9 |
| December | — | — | 21 | 11 | 25 | 4 | 2.5 | 9 |
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 13 months before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 18 km² of land.
- About 0.5 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
Around the shore
What's around West Lake
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 2beaches and swimming spots
- 2campsites
Cắm trại chân cầu NT
- —boat hire and water-sport clubs
- 1marinas and slipways
Bến tàu Trúc Bạch
- —ferry piers
- 5viewpoints
Long Biên Bridge Sightspot
- 269hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Khách Sạn Đức Thái, Khách Sạn Little Hanoi Diamond, Khách Sạn Little Hanoi, Khách Sạn Bạch Tùng Điệp, Khách Sạn Hanoi Gecko III and 264 more
- —fishing spots
- 769restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Hanoi8,053,663 people
- Cầu Giấy292,536 people
- Ba Dinh221,893 people
- Tây Hồ168,300 people
- Hoàn Kiếm135,618 people
- Bồ Đề120,028 people
- Nghĩa Đô96,418 people
- Giảng Võ76,658 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Noi Bai International Airport (HAN), 19 km in a straight line.
OpenStreetMap is built by volunteers: when a number is low, it may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.
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 | 20.3 | 23.4 | 26.6 | 30.4 | 31.8 | 31.9 | 31.7 | 31.0 | 30.2 | 27.7 | 24.7 | 20.8 |
| 2020 | +2.7 | +0.2 | +0.9 | −4.4 | +0.7 | +0.5 | +0.6 | −0.2 | +0.5 | −2.0 | +0.2 | −1.2 |
| 2021 | −1.3 | +0.7 | +0.7 | −1.0 | +0.1 | +0.5 | +0.5 | +0.8 | +0.1 | −1.9 | −0.8 | +0.1 |
| 2022 | +1.2 | −4.2 | +0.7 | −2.1 | −2.7 | −0.3 | −0.3 | −0.1 | +0.3 | −0.7 | +2.5 | −1.9 |
| 2023 | +0.2 | +0.9 | +0.1 | −0.2 | +0.8 | +0.1 | +0.9 | +0.5 | +0.2 | +1.0 | +1.3 | +1.1 |
| 2024 | +0.7 | +1.3 | +0.8 | +3.5 | −0.7 | +0.3 | +0.2 | +0.7 | +0.3 | +0.4 | +1.0 | ±0.0 |
| 2025 | +0.8 | −1.9 | −0.4 | −0.2 | −0.4 | −0.4 | −0.2 | ±0.0 | +0.3 | −0.3 | −1.9 | +1.6 |
+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 (Q1187394) · 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.
