Climate
The territory of Belarus is situated in a temperate zone on the way of western air masses going from the Atlantic. The climate of Belarus is moderately continental, with mild and humid winter, warm summer and damp autumn.
The average temperature in January is from -4°С (south-western areas) to -8°С (north-eastern areas), in July: +17–19°С. The annual rainfalls or snowfalls reach 550–650 mm in lowlands and 650–750 mm in plain areas and highlands. The average vegetation period lasts 184–208 days.
The climate of Belarus is rather good for the cultivation of major grains, vegetables, fruit trees and bushes of the Middle Eastern Europe and particularly for potatoes, flax, annual grasses, fodder root crops.
