With a length of 12 km, an area of about 11km² and a depth of 114 m is our lake is one of the largest in the Salzkammergut.

He rarely freezes over in the winter and in the summer he is up to 24 degrees.

A monthly survey confirmed him its drinking water. At the bottom of the lake the ring line for the waste water of the Wolfgangsee communities located. Underground source inflows bring the lake oxygen to the lowest point. The largest tributary, the zinc stream, lake evaporation annually a few centimeters. In autumn and spring, the lake is mixed. At high tide the sea can rise up to one meter.