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St. Ivan Island

0.29 km² of land in the Black Sea.

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St. Ivan Island seen from space, cut out from the sea (Sentinel-2)
N 0.1 km

Satellite: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX (CC BY 4.0). Outline and points © OpenStreetMap contributors / Natural Earth. North up.

In numbers

0.29km²

Area

3km

Coastline

33m

Highest point

0

People

25°C

Warmest sea

August

1km

To the mainland

When to go to St. Ivan Island

Best for the beach from July to August.

The sea is warmest in August (25 °C) and coolest in February (7 °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 Bulgaria

St. Ivan Island is an island in Bulgaria. It covers 0.29 km², with 3 km of coastline. Its highest point rises to 33 m. Nobody lives on it. The nearest mainland is 1 km away.

Read more on Wikipedia

Getting there

Plan the trip

Ferries, stays and things to do

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On the island

What you find on St. Ivan Island.

  • 1lighthouses
  • 1ruins 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 17 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.

St. Ivan Island0 km²
Alcatraz Island0 km²

0.2 km

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

Month by month

The weather on the island.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Afternoon high (°C)681216222730302519138
Night low (°C)-103612172020161161
Sea (°C)877101621242523191410
Rain (mm)644745344549472652684663
Wet days8788109757779
Sun h/day2.63.44.76.88.69.810.49.97.14.73.02.4
Wind (km/h)151614121010111213131415

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+2.0+1.6+1.7+0.3−0.6−0.7+0.5+0.4+1.7+2.6+1.9+2.0
2021+2.0+1.9+0.8−0.3+0.2−0.9+0.6+0.9+0.5−0.8+0.4+1.6
2022+1.3+0.5−1.0−0.5−0.4+0.1+0.4+0.5+0.7±0.0+1.9+1.6
2023+2.4+0.6+1.2+0.5−1.1+0.4+0.7±0.0+1.7+2.8+2.0+0.8
2024+1.6+1.2+1.7+4.0+0.1+1.9+2.2+1.8+1.4+1.2+1.3+1.8
2025+2.0+0.9+0.6+0.3−0.8+0.7+1.1+0.7+1.4+1.1+2.6+2.9

+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual

Photos

Seen by visitors.

St Ivan and St Peter Island, Bulgaria
Chrumps · CC BY-SA 4.0
Sozopol, wyspa świętego Iwana (MW) - DSC 0289
Aw58 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Ivanipetar
Evgord at Bulgarian Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0
SvetiIvan
Original uploader was Mrs Robinson at bg.wikipedia · CC BY 2.5

About these numbers

Names, area, populationWikidata (Q1636393) · 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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