Climate

 The main factors influencing on Georgian climate are the black sea from the west, and high mountain ridges of Big Caucasus which are defending Georgia from cold air flows from north. Black sea softens fluctuation in temperature and stimulates falling of atmospheric precipitates, mostly in the western

 Georgia. Kolkhidian lowland is characterized by humid subtropical climate, which has unique characteristics: most warm winter (Temperature for the most cold month January is 3-6 °C), lowest yearly temperature amplitude (17-21°C), lowest amount of precipitation.

Sometimes strong, long-drawn winds from east are typical. Climate of Iberian valley differs from Kolkhidian with colder winter (from -2 to 1.5°C ), bigger yearly amplitude (24-27°C), lower amount of atmospheric precipitation. For the mountainous parts of Big and Small Caucasus and the South-Georgian upland regions is typical high-altitude zone (temperate, Alpine and frigid zones), complicated with diminution of humidity from the west to the east and from mountains’ peripheries to the inner hollows.

The lowest absolute temperatures are in closed hollows – in the Shaori hollow of Racha ridge -35°C - 40°C. The climate of the South-Georgian upland region is relatively continental and arid, with little amount of snow and with very cold winter.

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