Geography and Climate in Pilsen
Rating: 7,9/10 (2571 votes)  Pilsen is one of the largest and most densely populated cities in the Czech Republic, located in the region of the same name in the western part of the country. The city began to develop from the end of the XIII century and to this day it is one of the main commercial, industrial and tourist centers of the Czech Republic. Pilsen has become famous all over the world thanks to its breweries. According to the latest data, about 170 thousand people lived in the city, but the low birth rate does not allow this figure to increase. There is no direct communication between Russian cities and Plze, it is possible to get to the city only by internal Czech routes. The most acceptable option is, of course, Prague - from here trains and buses leave for Plzen every day at intervals of one hour. The distance of one hundred kilometers between the two cities is covered in 90 minutes by train, and a little longer by bus, due to the heavy congestion of the Czech roads. An alternative route to Pilsen can be departure from Karlovy Vary - the distance between cities is about 190 kilometers along motorways, and tourist buses overcome it a little more in less than two hours. Trains from Karlovy Vary leave for Pilsen with an interval of 1 hour and 40 minutes, but by train it is much faster. -continental type. There is always a mild change of weather and seasons, little snowy winters, warm, sometimes rainy summers. The relative air humidity is low and has an insignificant amplitude of fluctuations throughout the year. We can talk about the arrival of summer in the city in the second half of May. From June to early August, rains are quite rare here, and the average air temperature in the shade is about +22 ° С. During the day, there can be sultry weather, which in the evening gives way to cool winds and light rain. The coldest month of the year is January, frosts are stable, and the temperature rarely rises above -10 ° С, a sharper cooling for the city is already considered an abnormal frost.  We also recommend reading Kaprun. Recreation and entertainment Topic: Geography and Climate in Pilsen. |
