Malcesine info tourist Baldo Mount

Thanks to its microclimate, the territory of Mount Baldo-Lake Garda is characterised by warm, windy summers (average temperature 24°-32°) and mild winters, with temperatures which rarely fall below 10° - 18° during the day under normal conditions recorded from December to February. So the climate is comparable to the Mediterranean climate.

The summit of Mount Baldo may be covered with snow, even to a considerable depth, for several months of the year, but it rarely reaches altitudes of less than 700-800 m. In exceptional cases it also snows at low altitudes and even in Malcesine itself, but the snow never stays for more than limited periods of time, often only for a few hours.

These and other factors, including the decisive factor of the lake waters, which free heat accumulated during the summer during the colder months of the year, creates an environment that is favourable for the development of a great variety of flowers and plants, characteristic of the surrounding landscape, which continues to display the rich colours that fascinated Goethe.

The many floral species found on Mount Baldo have been studied and catalogued by scholars and botanists since the 1700s, thereby confirming the name given at that time to Mount Baldo: the Garden of Europe (Hortus Europae).