Alvesta
Alvesta | |
|---|---|
 Alvesta railway station (Alvesta järnvägsstation) | |
  Alvesta  Alvesta | |
| Coordinates: 56°54′N 14°33′E / 56.900°N 14.550°E | |
| Country | Sweden |
| Province | Småland |
| County | Kronoberg County |
| Municipality | Alvesta Municipality |
| Area | |
• Total | 6.10 km2 (2.36 sq mi) |
| Population (31 December 2010)[1] | |
• Total | 8,017 |
| • Density | 1,535/km2 (3,980/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Alvesta (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈâlːvɛsta] )[2] is a locality and the seat of Alvesta Municipality in Kronoberg County, Sweden, with 8,017 inhabitants in the urban area in 2010.[1]
Alvesta is an important railway junction, joining the Stockholm–Malmö–Copenhagen railway with the Gothenburg–Kalmar/Karlskrona railway.
Climate
Alvesta has a hot summer humid continental climate (Köppen: Dfa)
| Climate data for Alvesta, Sweden | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 1.2 (34.2) |
0.9 (33.6) |
4.5 (40.1) |
7.1 (44.8) |
16.9 (62.4) |
26.8 (80.2) |
31.5 (88.7) |
30.1 (86.2) |
22.5 (72.5) |
13.1 (55.6) |
7.5 (45.5) |
3.9 (39.0) |
13.8 (56.9) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −5.4 (22.3) |
−6.0 (21.2) |
−3.2 (26.2) |
−1.5 (29.3) |
5.5 (41.9) |
19.8 (67.6) |
20.5 (68.9) |
23.6 (74.5) |
16.8 (62.2) |
5.0 (41.0) |
−1.3 (29.7) |
−4.1 (24.6) |
5.8 (42.4) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 68.2 (2.69) |
2.4 (0.09) |
0.1 (0.00) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.1 (0.00) |
5.49 (0.22) |
157.42 (6.20) |
278.59 (10.97) |
235.4 (9.27) |
223.2 (8.79) |
268.45 (10.57) |
147.22 (5.80) |
1,386.57 (54.6) |
| Source: Klart.se | |||||||||||||
References
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- ^ a b c "Tätorternas landareal, folkmängd och invånare per km2 2005 och 2010" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. 14 December 2011. Archived from the original on 27 January 2012. Retrieved 10 January 2012.
- ^ Jöran Sahlgren; Gösta Bergman (1979). Svenska ortnamn med uttalsuppgifter (in Swedish). p. 4.
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