Environment and Climate
The tourist history of Alassio is closely connected to its climate..
Very thorough studies have compared the climate of the picturesque bay of Alassio to that of another pearl of Italian tourism, Amalfi..
In fact both the coast and hilly belt are exposed to the South, a crown of mountains protects it from the northerly winds: that is why Alassio enjoys the typical Mediterranean maritime climate which is pleasant and mild, with annual range of about 15 degrees, average winter temperature of about 10 degrees and summers refreshed by marine breezes with temperatures around 25 degrees.
It is above all due to its favourable climate that Alassio, towards the end of the 18th century , became among the first Italian towns to receive tourism from Europe. As time went by, the first wealthy English families who started this trend were replaced by a crowd of tourists coming from all over the world, as the latest statistics on the tourist flux show.
ENVIRONMENT
Some data
Meteorology Alassio
Annual averages:
- Pressure: 758.8 mm of mercury
- Temperature: 17.5 ° C
- Humidity: 63%
- Precipitation: 584.0 mm
- Sunshine: 2309.5 hours of sunshine clear (with an average of 6.3 hours each day)
- Sunny days: 205
- Cloudy days: 54
Absolute values and average
- Absolute minimum temperature: +1.6 ° C recorded at 6 o'clock on December 14
- Absolute Maximum temperature: +30.6 ° C on July 30 at 17
- Month with lowest average temperature in January with 9.7 ° C
- Month with the highest average temperature in August with +26.5 ° C
- Coldest day: January 17, with an average of +4.0 ° C
- Warmest day: August 2nd with 28.7 ° C average
- Month with fewer hours of sunshine in January with 87.0 hours (about 2.8 hours of sunshine per day)
- Month with most sunshine duration in June with 304.8 hours equal to 10.2 hours of clear sunshine every day (in July, the average was 9.1 hours in August of 9.3 hours)
- Wettest month of January with 218.8 mm of rain
- Less rainy month: December, with only two tenths of a mm
- Wettest Day: January 2 with 69.2 mm of precipitation