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Ogurja Ada

47.6 km² of land in the Caspian Sea.

When to go

Ogurja Ada seen from space, cut out from the sea (Sentinel-2)
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Satellite: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX (CC BY 4.0). Outline and points © OpenStreetMap contributors / Natural Earth. North up.

In numbers

47.6km²

Area

91km

Coastline

0

People

28°C

Warmest sea

August

When to go to Ogurja Ada

Best for the beach from June to September.

The sea is warmest in August (28 °C) and coolest in February (9 °C). Comfortable swimming (21 °C or more): from June to September.

Sea temperature (the water level) Air: night low to afternoon high Wet days Best months

Averages 1991–2020. Sea: NOAA OISST, the water within 35 km of the coast. Air, rain and sun: NASA POWER. Best months weigh warm afternoons (23–30 °C), sea of 24 °C or more and few wet days.

Island in Turkmenistan

Ogurja Ada is an island in Turkmenistan. It covers 47.6 km², with 91 km of coastline. Nobody lives on it.

Read more on Wikipedia

Getting there

  • Turkmenbaşy International Airport (KRW)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 122 km in a straight line
  • From June to Septemberbest months to go (from 30 years of averages)

Plan the trip

Ferries, stays and things to do

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On the island

What you find on Ogurja Ada.

  • 1lighthousesOgurchinskiy
  • 14ruins and archaeological sites

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit, inside the island's outline. A low number may only mean nobody has mapped it yet.

The shape of the land.

On average the island stands 0 m above the sea. 100 % of it is below 200 m.

  • 100 %0–50 m

Share of the island's area in each altitude band, from the Copernicus DEM (30 m, read at 30–240 m on large islands).

Size, for real

Next to islands you may know.

Ogurja Ada48 km²
Santorini76 km²
Manhattan54 km²

5 km

All outlines drawn to the same scale (Natural Earth and OpenStreetMap).

Month by month

The weather on the island.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Afternoon high (°C)8811152126293026201410
Night low (°C)65812182326272317117
Sea (°C)10910131823262825211612
Rain (mm)1619212293457182419
Wet days565421112466
Sun h/day4.85.76.77.810.312.011.010.79.57.45.54.5
Wind (km/h)191917161518181920192020

Averages 1991–2020 for the ~55 km NASA POWER cell over the island; the sea from NOAA OISST.

Recent years

Warmer and cooler years at sea.

Each month's sea temperature compared with its 1991–2020 average, in degrees.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2020±0.0+0.7+0.8+0.2+0.1+0.8±0.0−2.4−0.8−1.3−0.4−2.0
2021−1.5−0.1−0.1+0.8+0.2+0.6−0.1+0.8+1.1±0.0−1.3−1.0
2022−1.1±0.0+0.1+0.3−0.4−0.8−0.4−0.3−0.7−0.1+0.2−2.0
2023−2.8−1.8+0.9+1.2−0.5±0.0−2.0−0.8−2.3−0.1+1.3−0.2
2024−0.5−0.6+0.2+1.9+0.2+0.3−2.3−1.7−0.8−0.1±0.0−1.7
2025−1.0−0.4+0.7+1.7+0.8−0.1−0.4−1.2−1.0+0.5+1.1+0.2

+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual

About these numbers

Names, area, populationWikidata (Q2580053) · CC0
Outline© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
Sea temperatureNOAA OISST v2.1 · 1991–2020
ClimateNASA POWER · 1991–2020
Relief, 3D modelCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Beaches, ports, lighthouses, trails© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
TownsGeoNames · CC BY 4.0
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

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