the Climate of Italy

Elongation of terrain of Italy from the north on the south gives the big climatic differences between separate regions - from moderately warm climate of Padansky plain (with hot summer, but in the cold and foggy winter) to strongly pronounced subtropical in Sicily. The climate of peninsular and island Italy is actually Mediterranean.

Northern Italy (Padansky plain) has transitive phylum of a climate from subtropical to moderately continental. Penetration of warm air masses from the West is interfered by Maritime Alps and the Apennines, therefore agency of colder air from Adriatic sea here predominates. Average temperature of January - nearby 0  °C, and July - 23-24  °C. Cyclone separators in the autumn are actively formed, in the winter snow which can lay on neskolku weeks always falls out. Frosts to-10  are frequent; °C. From 600-1000  the mm of annual deposits half is necessary for the spring and summer because of frequent and strong, times even the catastrophic, summer showers accompanied by thunder-storms and a hail.

the Climate of the Alpes variates with altitude from moderately warm to the cold. In mounts snow is kept some months, at apexes lays constantly. In the Alpes ample snowfalls when passes become impervious are frequent. A maximum quantity of deposits (3000  mm) gain east slopes of the Western Alpes intercepting wet winds. For region of Trieste in a winter time the strong cold wind - a milletgrass, collapsing with low mounts to the sea is characteristic.

The Climate of peninsular and island Italy the Mediterranean. For it the best parametres of cloudlessness, perhaps highest in all Mediterranean are characteristic. Over peninsula the bulk of year (all 2/3 days) openly clear blue root anthemed in verses, embodied in pictures. In the south of Apenninsky peninsula and on islands summer dry and hot, winter soft, warm: 26 °C in July and 8-10  °C in January. In central and northern parts of peninsula is little bit more cool: 24 °C in July and 1-4  °C in January). It is necessary to note presence in the south of peninsula of the regions subject from March till October to agency sirokko - a dry and hot wind from Sahara, bringing with itself a reddish dust and an increase of temperature to 33-35  °C. The Mediterranean regime of deposits (a maximum in the winter, a minimum in the summer) for which some regional features are characteristic is saved. The most droughty place of Italy (197  Mm of deposits a year) it is had on a boot heel - Salentine peninsula.

Monthly average temperature of air (°s)

Monthly average temperature of water (°s)