the Climate of Switzerland

the Climate of Switzerland is defined by agency of Atlantic ocean in the west and affecting of a continental block in the east. From the north torrents of arctic air, and from the south - wet and warm air masses here interfere. For Switzerland the dry and warm wind - the drying fan blowing from mauntains along northern slopes of the Alpes is characteristic.

For each range of Switzerland, for its each canton the landscape, the climate is characteristic. If, for example, in Andermatte you will meet mighty pines, snow with a rain and laconic German burghers, that, having driven 50  km on the Sen-Gotardsky tunnel, you will get to embraces of hot solar rays, you will see palm trees and expressional Italians. So that to test bright natural and climatic contrasts in Switzerland it is possible for pair hours - for this purpose it is not necessary to make travel lasting many days.

In this surprising country there is Arctic regions and tropics: on slopes of mounts mosses and lichens, and also palm trees and mimosas grow; in woods foliate mucks alternate with conifers, beeches and chestnuts - with spruces, pines and larches. In the winter of lowland of Switzerland are inflated by cold air, the dense hymenium of a fog shrouds the root. But over a fog, in mounts, the sun brightly and cheerfully shines, involving to itself of numerous tourists.

an Amazing diversity of a landscape and the big differences in altitude do travel across Switzerland interesting at any time year: in the spring, in a blooming pore, East Switzerland and the Swiss plateau are especially good; in the summer you everywhere will accept numerous pure loches; it is possible to go on the south in the autumn; and winter will meet you in all Alpine part of Switzerland a nitidous snow overlying strata and will grant perfect possibilities for playing sports.

Monthly average temperature of air (°s)