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Innsbruck is the capital city of the federal state of Tyrol, in Austria. It is located at 550 m in the Inn valley right in the middle of the Alps.
It has a continental climate, quite typical of the Central Alps valleys, with cold and snowy winters (colder than those of a "typical" city in Central and Western Europe and somewhat similar to those of Southern Scandinavia) and rainy, humid summers with warm days and cool nights.
As for the rest of Alps, Innsbruck's climate is very seasonal and characterized by dramatic swings of weather from day to night, from one day to another and from month to month. This is especially true in summer, when the same day the temperatures can raise up to over 32°-33° in the afternoon and drop to 15° during night, but it can also happen to have daily highs as low as 15° in mid-August, with pouring rain; however temperatures over 35° are very rare and the airport has never recorded an overnight low over 20°. The summer is also the rainiest season, with frequent occurences of heavy thunderstorms with lightnings and hail.
In winter, temperatures can stay under 0° for weeks and even under -6°/-7° for many days in a row during major cold waves. However, when the warm, southern wind called föhn (equivalent to the American chinook, even if less strong) blows from the Alps it can bring temperatures over 10°C in the middle of the winter. Snow amounts are the heaviest for any major Austrian city, along with Salzburg, and Innsbruck has hosted the Winter Olympic Games twice.
Middle seasons are mild to cool/chilly with occasional freak snowfalls (it snowed in mid-September just two years ago) and very warm days; they are also very colourful like in the rest of the Alps.
For me, it deserves a B. It is a very dynamic climate, never boring. It rarely gets too hot, but it can get very cold and snowy and nights are always cool even in midsummer. It misses the top mark for being too warm overall (especially for its summer highs) and for its mediocre precipitation and snowfall. However near the city there are some alpine towns which receive over than 4 meters of snow every year.
A-. Would be a solid A if the diurnal range was smaller (highs 2C lower, lows 2C higher year-round). Given how steep I remember that valley being when I passed through on the train and how many snow days there are I'm very surprised the winters are as sunny as the stats suggest, assuming the data is true.
C- too snowy in winter. Also generally too cold year round, but the record highs save it from D/F territory.
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