Barcelona is a province of Spain, in the central part of the independent community of Catalonia. It limits with the provinces of Tarragona, Lérida, and Gerona, and with the Mediterranean Sea. Barcelona is a Spanish, capital city of Catalonia and the province homónima. It is located to borders of the Mediterranean Sea, to about 160 km to the south of the coordillera of the Pyrenees and the border with France, in a plain limited the east by the sea, to the west by the coastal mountain range (Mountain range of Collserola), to the south by the Llobregat river and to the north by the Besós river. With a population of 1.593.075 inhabitants within their municipal term, a metropolitan area of 4.686.701 inhabitants and one province of 5.226.354, Barcelona and its metropolitan area constitute the first economic nucleus and the second in more important population of Spain.
Climate
Pluviometría and temperature anualBarcelona enjoys a typical Mediterranean climate, with an annual temperature average of 15.7 degrees Celsius, with a minimum average of 12.3 and one Maxima mediates of 21,1ºc. The summer agrees with the months of June, July and August. The warmest month August is, when the temperature oscillates between the 23 and 34 degrees, arriving at the 40 from Maxima at some moments. The heat is specially suffocating in Barcelona because of the high relative humidity and the wind shortage, that cause a temperature of shame and very high sensation. The coldest months of the year are December, January and February, when the temperature oscillates between 8ºC and 10ºC of average. Most of the year usually shines the sun. Rains only appear in a fifth part of the year, and except in the months of February, September and October, usually they are rains that only last hours. Barcelona usually does not suffer snowed.
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