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Surface water in Mohokare

In 2025, Mohokare had 53.4 km² of open water on average, 35.6 km² of it nearly all year. The wettest year since 1984 was 2022 (61.3 km²); the driest 1995 (17.2 km²).

Open water seen on the ground from space: dams, lakes, rivers wide enough to see, pans, wetlands with open water and flooded fields. Each year, the Landsat satellites look at every 30 m spot many times; where the sky is clear, each look says water or not. The average water area counts each spot for the share of its clear looks that were wet. Permanent water was wet in more than 80% of the clear looks; seasonal water was wet at least once but less often than that.

What it isn’t: not how full a dam is (that is the Department of Water and Sanitation’s weekly level, by volume), not groundwater, not rain, and not water in pipes or tanks. Narrow rivers, water under trees or bridges and anything smaller than about 30 m are missed. A year with few clear looks (cloud, or the early years when fewer satellites flew) is less sure, and 1988 is missing everywhere because Digital Earth Africa does not have it: a missing year is left out, never counted as dry.

2025

53.4 km²Water on average0.61% of the land; 160% of the 1991 to 2020 average (33.3 km²)
35.6 km²PermanentWater in more than 80% of the clear looks
149 km²SeasonalWet at least once, but not most of the year
95%Of the place seenThe share with at least one clear look

The wettest and driest years

2022Wettest, 61.3 km²404 km² wet at some point
1995Driest, 17.2 km²6.22 km² permanent

Among the 40 years in which at least 90% as much of the place was seen as in its best year (1 less well seen year is left out), so a cloudy year cannot pass for a dry one.

Every year since 1984

The average water area each year (the whole bar), and the part that was water nearly all year (darker). A gap is a year Digital Earth Africa does not have.

Show the numbers

The average water area each year, 1984 to 2025: every figure
When or what	Figure
1984	21.0 km² on average, 10.7 km² permanent
1985	32.9 km² on average, 32.9 km² permanent
1986	37.5 km² on average, 24.7 km² permanent
1987	28.5 km² on average, 19.7 km² permanent
1988	not held
1989	56.7 km² on average, 39.3 km² permanent
1990	30.5 km² on average, 15.9 km² permanent
1991	41.1 km² on average, 27.1 km² permanent
1992	28.0 km² on average, 15.0 km² permanent
1993	23.6 km² on average, 8.67 km² permanent
1994	32.7 km² on average, 13.2 km² permanent
1995	17.2 km² on average, 6.22 km² permanent
1996	32.0 km² on average, 18.9 km² permanent
1997	38.7 km² on average, 23.9 km² permanent
1998	28.2 km² on average, 9.46 km² permanent
1999	20.4 km² on average, 7.82 km² permanent
2000	33.3 km² on average, 20.2 km² permanent
2001	40.3 km² on average, 21.8 km² permanent
2002	50.4 km² on average, 37.9 km² permanent
2003	31.9 km² on average, 19.3 km² permanent
2004	37.7 km² on average, 22.2 km² permanent
2005	23.7 km² on average, 12.8 km² permanent
2006	54.3 km² on average, 40.3 km² permanent
2007	30.3 km² on average, 18.6 km² permanent
2008	28.5 km² on average, 15.6 km² permanent
2009	27.8 km² on average, 17.0 km² permanent
2010	33.5 km² on average, 19.4 km² permanent
2011	49.7 km² on average, 31.4 km² permanent
2012	39.9 km² on average, 27.0 km² permanent
2013	27.3 km² on average, 15.9 km² permanent
2014	31.5 km² on average, 19.0 km² permanent
2015	23.3 km² on average, 9.45 km² permanent
2016	19.4 km² on average, 9.32 km² permanent
2017	32.6 km² on average, 18.7 km² permanent
2018	40.9 km² on average, 20.5 km² permanent
2019	38.0 km² on average, 19.3 km² permanent
2020	41.4 km² on average, 25.7 km² permanent
2021	45.4 km² on average, 29.5 km² permanent
2022	61.3 km² on average, 41.1 km² permanent
2023	50.7 km² on average, 35.1 km² permanent
2024	39.4 km² on average, 26.5 km² permanent
2025	53.4 km² on average, 35.6 km² permanent

Year	Water on average	Permanent	Seasonal	Wet at some point	Seen
2025	53.4 km²	35.6 km²	149 km²	184 km²	95%
2024	39.4 km²	26.5 km²	102 km²	128 km²	95%
2023	50.7 km²	35.1 km²	205 km²	240 km²	95%
2022	61.3 km²	41.1 km²	362 km²	404 km²	95%
2021	45.4 km²	29.5 km²	195 km²	224 km²	95%
2020	41.4 km²	25.7 km²	111 km²	136 km²	95%
2019	38.0 km²	19.3 km²	115 km²	135 km²	95%
2018	40.9 km²	20.5 km²	164 km²	185 km²	95%
2017	32.6 km²	18.7 km²	82.8 km²	102 km²	95%
2016	19.4 km²	9.32 km²	92.9 km²	102 km²	95%
2015	23.3 km²	9.45 km²	114 km²	123 km²	95%
2014	31.5 km²	19.0 km²	73.4 km²	92.4 km²	95%
2013	27.3 km²	15.9 km²	48.0 km²	64.0 km²	95%
2012	39.9 km²	27.0 km²	61.7 km²	88.7 km²	95%
2011	49.7 km²	31.4 km²	53.1 km²	84.5 km²	95%
2010	33.5 km²	19.4 km²	52.2 km²	71.6 km²	95%
2009	27.8 km²	17.0 km²	40.6 km²	57.5 km²	95%
2008	28.5 km²	15.6 km²	40.3 km²	55.8 km²	95%
2007	30.3 km²	18.6 km²	50.4 km²	68.9 km²	95%
2006	54.3 km²	40.3 km²	73.2 km²	114 km²	95%
2005	23.7 km²	12.8 km²	37.0 km²	49.7 km²	95%
2004	37.7 km²	22.2 km²	109 km²	131 km²	95%
2003	31.9 km²	19.3 km²	38.1 km²	57.4 km²	95%
2002	50.4 km²	37.9 km²	51.5 km²	89.4 km²	95%
2001	40.3 km²	21.8 km²	73.0 km²	94.7 km²	95%
2000	33.3 km²	20.2 km²	56.0 km²	76.2 km²	95%
1999	20.4 km²	7.82 km²	49.3 km²	57.2 km²	95%
1998	28.2 km²	9.46 km²	90.7 km²	100 km²	95%
1997	38.7 km²	23.9 km²	73.7 km²	97.7 km²	95%
1996	32.0 km²	18.9 km²	53.5 km²	72.4 km²	95%
1995	17.2 km²	6.22 km²	63.6 km²	69.8 km²	95%
1994	32.7 km²	13.2 km²	86.8 km²	100 km²	95%
1993	23.6 km²	8.67 km²	72.8 km²	81.5 km²	95%
1992	28.0 km²	15.0 km²	53.3 km²	68.3 km²	95%
1991	41.1 km²	27.1 km²	70.8 km²	98.0 km²	95%
1990	30.5 km²	15.9 km²	76.8 km²	92.6 km²	95%
1989	56.7 km²	39.3 km²	94.4 km²	134 km²	95%
1987	28.5 km²	19.7 km²	20.4 km²	40.2 km²	95%
1986	37.5 km²	24.7 km²	32.2 km²	56.9 km²	95%
1985	32.9 km²	32.9 km²	none	32.9 km²	69%
1984	21.0 km²	10.7 km²	31.1 km²	41.9 km²	93%

A year missing from the table is one Digital Earth Africa does not have for this place (1988 everywhere, 1985 in some places).

Each ward

Places in each ward: © OpenStreetMap contributors.

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Source

Measured from space by the American Landsat satellites: not a survey on the ground.

Credits and how we worked this out

Water Observations from Space, Digital Earth Africa (CC BY 4.0), modified: we counted each 30 m pixel over every 2026 ward and added the wards up into municipalities, districts and provinces. Under CC BY 4.0, from the AWS Registry of Open Data.

Landsat imagery courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey.

Mueller, N. and others (2016): Water observations from space: mapping surface water from 25 years of Landsat imagery across Australia, Remote Sensing of Environment 174, 341 to 352.

Dataset: surface water by ward, release of 12 November 2026.