Spain Climate

Spanish slopes of the Pyrenees have the climate characteristics of the mesete, with the noticeable modifications due to Atlantic and Mediterranean influences on the western and eastern ends of the chain respectively. This Continental climate makes their Aragonite slope hotter in summer than the slopes of the same height on the French side. It also has an earlier spring and a greater range of temperatures. Winter is long and harsh in the valleys of the Pyrenees.

Generally the mean annual rainfall exceeds eighteen inches. This occurs regularly only in the Atlantic sector, where rainfall can exceed sixty inches a year, mostly falling in autumn. In the eastern sector, however, most rainfalls in summer.

The central section is exceptional because the Aragon’s slopes form a dry zone. The mean annul precipitation remains somewhat below twenty inches, and the aridity of the soil is well from the poverty of the vegetation.