Senj City is the largest urban agglomerations on the Croatian coast between Rijeka and Zadar. City region includes coastline of 76 km and is located between the sea, the hills of Kapela and Velebit, the highest mountain in Croatia. Its location on the east coast of the Adriatic maritime connecting it with cities and countries of the Mediterranean. Road is connected with the hinterland through the mountain pass Ozren (700 m above sea level), on the west by Vinodolski valley, the river and its hinterland, and in the south to Zadar, Split and southern Dalmatia.
Diversity of relief in the town of Senj, defined as two climate zones: Mediterranean and the Dinaric Alps. Velebit forms the border between these two regions.
Coastal climate regions characterized by warm, dry summers and mild and rainy winter, while mountain characterize low temperature in winter, cool summers and increased precipitation (rain and snow). The average annual temperature on the coastal side was 15.2 ° C. The absolute minimum temperature measured at Senj is -10.4 ° C, a temperature maximum 37.6 ° C. The warmest month of the mountainous region the climate is August with an average temperature of 13.1 ° C, the coldest February with -4.2 ° C.
Senjsko area is very windy. It is exuberant part of the eastern Adriatic. Because of facilitating the penetration of wind from the interior to the sea wind is often strong. This natural phenomenon is interesting, and scientists therefore senjska long documentary follows the storm.
From all this it follows that the temperature in the town of Senj suitable for tourist stay during the summer, and maritime influences and favorable temperatures during the autumn, the assumption would take longer swimming season. Snowfall on podrčju Velebit make the comparative advantage of Senj in relation to other coastal destinations. It often happens that in the Velebit littoral thinking about opening the swimming season, a 20-km away backing is still covered with snow.
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