Reservoir · Bosnia and Herzegovina · Serbia
Zvornik Lake
Lake
- Area
- 7.9km²
- Max depth
- 39m
- Average depth
- 11m
- Elevation
- 153m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 55km
- Volume
- 0.089km³
Zvornik Lake is a reservoir in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It covers 7.9 km². On average it is 11 m deep, and 39 m at its deepest point. Its surface lies 153 m above sea level.
Plan your visit
Stay, sail and get there
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The water
How warm is Zvornik Lake?
The water is warmest in August, around 21 °C at the surface, and coldest in January, around 4 °C. The surface averages 20 °C or more from July to August: comfortable for most swimmers.
It does not normally freeze in winter.
On the shore, afternoons reach 30 °C on average in August and 4 °C in January. The driest month is January (56 mm of rain), the wettest June (99 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (64 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 | 4 | -4 | 56 | 11 | 2.3 | 10 |
| February | 5 | 6 | 6 | -3 | 57 | 10 | 3.3 | 11 |
| March | 8 | 9 | 12 | 1 | 64 | 10 | 4.9 | 11 |
| April | 11 | 13 | 17 | 6 | 62 | 12 | 6.3 | 10 |
| May | 15 | 17 | 22 | 11 | 98 | 14 | 7.3 | 9 |
| June | 19 | 20 | 26 | 15 | 99 | 15 | 8.4 | 8 |
| July | 21 | 22 | 29 | 17 | 70 | 12 | 9.3 | 8 |
| August | 21 | 22 | 30 | 17 | 64 | 10 | 8.7 | 8 |
| September | 18 | 20 | 24 | 12 | 69 | 10 | 6.1 | 8 |
| October | 14 | 16 | 18 | 7 | 63 | 9 | 4.9 | 8 |
| November | 9 | 11 | 12 | 2 | 58 | 10 | 3.1 | 9 |
| December | 6 | 7 | 5 | -2 | 60 | 11 | 1.9 | 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 3 days before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 16,536 km² of land.
- About 314 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
- Its shoreline is 5.5 times longer than a circle of the same area: plenty of bays and inlets.
Around the shore
What's around Zvornik Lake
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 1beaches and swimming spots
- —campsites
- —boat hire and water-sport clubs
- 2marinas and slipways
- —ferry piers
- 5viewpoints
Vidikovac Orlovine
- 1hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Vidikovac
- —fishing spots
- 11restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Zvornik8,026 people
- Mali Zvornik4 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Tuzla International Airport (TZL), 39 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 | 3.9 | 6.0 | 11.5 | 17.3 | 22.0 | 26.1 | 29.3 | 29.7 | 23.6 | 18.0 | 11.8 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | +1.1 | +4.6 | +0.4 | +1.3 | −1.2 | −1.5 | −1.1 | −0.4 | +2.3 | +0.8 | −1.5 | +3.1 |
| 2021 | +0.5 | +3.8 | −2.2 | −3.6 | −0.8 | +2.6 | +2.6 | +0.1 | +1.3 | −2.5 | −0.7 | −0.2 |
| 2022 | −0.5 | +2.6 | −1.8 | −1.2 | +2.4 | +2.8 | +2.1 | ±0.0 | −0.9 | +2.8 | +0.6 | +4.7 |
| 2023 | +3.1 | +0.6 | +1.7 | −3.3 | −1.2 | −1.2 | +1.5 | +0.9 | +4.7 | +5.6 | +1.3 | +4.7 |
| 2024 | +1.1 | +7.1 | +4.3 | +3.5 | +1.4 | +4.7 | +4.1 | +4.8 | +2.1 | +2.2 | −1.5 | −0.2 |
| 2025 | +2.2 | +0.3 | +3.0 | +0.4 | −1.1 | +4.9 | +2.3 | +1.0 | +3.6 | −1.3 | −0.6 | +2.1 |
+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual
Nearby
More lakes nearby
Bosnia and Herzegovina13.3 km² · 54 km away27°maxJablaničko LakeBosnia and Herzegovina10.4 km² · 122 km away26°maxBlack Lake
Montenegro0.4 km² · 128 km away20°maxLake PivaMontenegro8.0 km² · 118 km away21°maxRama LakeBosnia and Herzegovina11.2 km² · 143 km away25°maxCarska BaraSerbia1.4 km² · 146 km away27°maxAbout 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 (Q231499) · 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.
