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Klaipėda

Lithuania
Someday we will visit Klaipėda or begin to dream about going there! However, for now its not on our radar. Let us know in the comments if you think that should change!

Klaipėda

Klaipeda is Lithuania's third largest city, located in the north-western corner of the country. It is the gateway to the Curonian Spit, a stretch of sand dunes 99 km in length from 400 m to 4 km, in breadth that arcs down to the Kaliningrad region of Russia.

Nowadays, Klaipėda is an industry, business, education and science, health, tourism and recreation, administrative center. Historically, Klaipėda is one of the most successful developing municipalities in the Western Lithuania. City generates approximately 12 percent of the country GDP and about 80 percent of the Western Lithuania. It is greatly influenced due to the Port of Klaipėda which is a very important transport hub. In the eastern part of the city there is Klaipėda Free Economic Zone offering 0 percent tax incentives for first 6 years, it is also the location of the first Geothermal Demonstration Plant in the Baltic States, which is supplying the city with geothermal heating and Fortum Klaipėda Combined Heat and Power Plant. In 2014, Klaipėda LNG FSRU with FSRU Independence ship was opened and guaranteed the alternative way of supplying the country with gas.

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Climate

Average temperatures

Jan

1°C-3.3
Precipitation: 65.8 mm

Feb

0.9°C-3.6
Precipitation: 41.8 mm

Mar

4.1°C-1.2
Precipitation: 46.5 mm

Apr

10.1°C2.8
Precipitation: 33.2 mm

May

15.7°C7.4
Precipitation: 40.3 mm

Jun

18.3°C11.1
Precipitation: 61.2 mm

Jul

21.2°C14.3
Precipitation: 62.2 mm

Aug

21.4°C14.4
Precipitation: 87.9 mm

Sep

17°C10.3
Precipitation: 83.6 mm

Oct

11.7°C6.3
Precipitation: 93.7 mm

Nov

5.9°C1.6
Precipitation: 89.9 mm

Dec

2.8°C-1.5
Precipitation: 72 mm