Climate in Crimea

According to the combination of meteorological elements it is possible to allocate three basic types of climate in Crimea such as:
    ⇒  dry-temperate continental plain steppe climate, with hot dry summer and cool damp winter,
    ⇒  temperate-wet hill-forest mild-continental climate with warm, rather damp summer and cool damp winter,
    ⇒  submediterranean mild-continental south-coast climate with hot dry summer and relatively warm, damp winter.

There are a lot of intermediate variants between these types of climate. For example, in foothill areas (Simferopol, Zuya, Belogorsk) the climate is transitive from plain steppe to hill-forest - it is possible to call it foothill forest-steppe climate.

In the flat-plain Crimea the climate is steppe, temperately continental, dry: cool winter (average temperature in January is from-3 up to 0°C) and hot summer (average temperature in July is from +21 up to +23°C) Amount of precipitation is - 350-450 mm/a year, and their big part drops out in the summer as downpours.

Distinctions between climates of seaside territories (Chernomorskoye, Yevpatoria, Kerch) and the central part of peninsula (Krasnogvardeyskoye, Dzankoy, Pervomayskoye) are observed. In the seaside part relative humidity and intensity of solar radiation are higher, but cloudiness and amount of precipitation is lower. Such climate can be called marine steppe.