Rating: 8,0/10 (226 votes) ![]() Geography and climateWolfgangsee – a lake of glacial origin and the Austrian resort area of the same name. It is located in a mountainous region on the border between the federal states of Salzburg and Upper Austria, occupying part of the territory belonging to the resort region of Salzkammergut. The lake is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. ![]() Salzburg airport to Wolfgangsee will take about an hour, the distance is 55 kilometers. Munich airport can be reached in three hours (200 kilometers), and to the city of Vienna – in four hours (270 kilometers). The length of the lake is 11.5 kilometers, and the area – 13 km & sup2;, in the widest part the lake reaches 2 kilometers, and in the narrowest (in the area of the village of St. Wolfgang) – 200 meters. ![]() Lake Wolfgangsee is located in the region of the Osterhorngrupe mountain range, in addition – in the vicinity of the lake there are such peaks as Schafberg (height 1783 meters) and Zwolferhorn (height 1521 m). The climate of this region belongs to a temperate continental climatic zone with a mild and long winter period (average air temperature in January -5 ° C) and in the hot summer months, when the air warms up to +25 ° C. The average water temperature in the lake in July is +24 ° C. We also recommend reading Geography and climate in Bad Ischl Topic: Geography and climate in Wolfgangsee. |