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Altura (Castro Marim) Altura is a town and a civil parish in the municipality of Castro Marim, Algarve, Portugal. The population in 2011 was 2,195, [1] in an area of 11.10 km². [2] It is a popular summer destination due to its beaches by the Atlantic Ocean. The civil parish of Altura was officially created on June 11, 1991, through detachment ...
Serra da Estrela (European Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈsɛʁɐ ðɐ (i)ʃˈtɾelɐ]) is the highest mountain range in Continental Portugal. Together with the Serra da Lousã it is the westernmost constituent range of the Sistema Central and also one of the highest in the system. It includes mainland Portugal 's highest point at 1,993 metres ...
The following list presents the official temperature extremes recorded in Portugal by the Portuguese meteorological ... 7 March 1995 −12.9 °C (8.8 °F) [23 ...
Portugal. Coordinates. 38°46′34″N 9°07′33″W / 38.77598°N 9.12577°W / 38.77598; -9.12577. Parent organisations. Ministry of the Sea. The Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera (lit. 'Portuguese Institute of the Sea and the Atmosphere'; abbreviated as IPMA) is the national meteorological, seismic, sea and atmospheric ...
As with the rest of Portugal, ocean temperatures are extremely moderate and cool year-round, only varying 5 °C (9.0 °F) between the coldest and warmest month. The coolest months are February and March (around 15–15.5 °C (59.0–59.9 °F)) while the warmest are from August through October (around 19–20 °C (66–68 °F)).
Porto has generally moderate temperatures. The average annual high is around 20 °C (68 °F) and average low around 11 °C (52 °F). The climate is also only mildly seasonal, from a maxima of 14 °C (57 °F) in January to 25–26 °C (77–79 °F) in August, while minima is around 5–6 °C (41–43 °F) in January and 15–16 °C (59–61 °F) in July and August.
This is a list of the mountains in Portugal, including the mountains with more than 1,400 metres (4,600 ft) of elevation and with, at least, 100 metres (330 ft) of topographic prominence. Mountains and hills occupy most of the territory of Portugal. The highest Portuguese mountain is Mount Pico in the Azores islands, with 2,351 metres (7,713 ft).
Exclusive economic zone. 1,727,408 km 2 (666,956 sq mi) Portugal is a coastal nation in western Europe, located at the western end of the Iberian Peninsula, bordering Spain (on its northern and eastern frontiers: a total of 1,215 kilometres (755 mi)). The Portuguese territory also includes a series of archipelagos in the Atlantic Ocean (the ...