Glacial lake · Canada
Wollaston Lake
Large glacial lake in Saskatchewan, Canada
- Area
- 2,270km²
- Max depth
- 71m
- Average depth
- 20m
- Elevation
- 395m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 3,819km
- Volume
- 45.9km³
Wollaston Lake is a glacial lake in Canada. It covers 2,270 km². On average it is 20 m deep, and 71 m at its deepest point. Its surface lies 395 m above sea level.
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The water
How warm is Wollaston Lake?
The water is warmest in August, around 15 °C at the surface, and coldest in January, around 0 °C. Even at its warmest, the surface stays below 17 °C on average: this is cold water.
The lake usually freezes over for about 212 days a year, from around 21 October to 20 May.
On the shore, afternoons reach 19 °C on average in July and -23 °C in January. The driest month is February (18 mm of rain), the wettest July (104 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (113 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 | — | -23 | -31 | 26 | 6 | 3.3 | 10 |
| February | Ice | — | -20 | -30 | 18 | 5 | 5.9 | 11 |
| March | Ice | — | -11 | -21 | 33 | 8 | 8.9 | 11 |
| April | Ice | — | -3 | -10 | 43 | 9 | 10.4 | 12 |
| May | Ice | — | 8 | 0 | 65 | 11 | 9.9 | 12 |
| June | 5 | 8 | 16 | 8 | 88 | 14 | 9.1 | 11 |
| July | 11 | 14 | 19 | 12 | 104 | 17 | 8.1 | 10 |
| August | 15 | 16 | 16 | 9 | 102 | 16 | 6.5 | 10 |
| September | 13 | 16 | 10 | 3 | 73 | 14 | 5.0 | 11 |
| October | 3 | 8 | -1 | -6 | 58 | 12 | 2.3 | 10 |
| November | Ice | — | -13 | -20 | 34 | 8 | 1.4 | 9 |
| December | Ice | — | -21 | -28 | 22 | 6 | 2.2 | 10 |
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 14 years before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 17,770 km² of land.
- About 101 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
- Its shoreline is 22.6 times longer than a circle of the same area: plenty of bays and inlets.
Around the shore
What's around Wollaston Lake
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
- 2ferry piers
Barge Landing
- —viewpoints
- 2hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Wollaston Lake Lodge, Wollaston Lake Motel
- —fishing spots
- 1restaurants and cafés
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Points North Landing Airport (YNL), 48 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 | -22.7 | -20.2 | -11.4 | -2.6 | 8.0 | 16.4 | 19.3 | 16.5 | 9.7 | -0.6 | -13.2 | -21.1 |
| 2020 | +3.2 | +1.6 | −1.8 | −3.1 | −4.1 | −0.9 | +0.3 | ±0.0 | −2.8 | −3.5 | −2.5 | +2.5 |
| 2021 | +3.7 | −2.0 | +2.7 | −1.2 | −4.3 | ±0.0 | +0.9 | −0.1 | +1.2 | +4.2 | +2.7 | −5.4 |
| 2022 | −3.6 | −5.3 | −0.2 | −0.8 | −2.3 | −0.8 | −0.1 | +1.4 | +3.1 | +3.4 | +1.1 | −3.8 |
| 2023 | +3.3 | −2.9 | −4.0 | +1.7 | +8.0 | +2.7 | −1.3 | +1.4 | +4.3 | +2.1 | +2.1 | +9.6 |
| 2024 | +0.8 | +2.1 | −1.5 | +3.1 | +1.5 | −3.6 | +1.5 | +1.5 | +3.5 | +1.1 | +2.8 | +1.9 |
| 2025 | +1.7 | −2.5 | −3.1 | −0.4 | +3.5 | −2.3 | −1.8 | +1.4 | +3.8 | +3.7 | +2.9 | −5.4 |
+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual
Nearby
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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 (Q1640500) · 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.
