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The climate of Alkmaar (the Netherlands)
Alkmaar is a town and a municipality located in the northern part of the North Holland province. Alkmaar is an old town, in the 13th century Alkmaar was granted town privileges. Nowadays the town is known for its cheese market. The cheese market has been held for 4 centuries now and attracts about 100,000 visitors every year. During the summer the cheese market is held every Friday. In the old town center evidence of the town’s rich history abounds. Among them are: the weighing house, the Accijns (Excise) Tower, the Sint-Laurens church, the Vigilantie (a warehouse) and the old town hall. The soccer club AZ plays their home matches in Alkmaar. Alkmaar has a moderate sea climate influenced by the North Sea and a warm Gulf Stream. During the winter longer periods of frost are not uncommon. Summers are pleasantly warm with temperatures of 20 degrees Celsius on average. Temperatures may occasionally rise above 30 degrees Celsius.

Climate information
The data below is based on registered weather data and applies to Alkmaar:

	average  maximum temperature (°C)	average minimum temperature (°C)	average hours of sunshine per day	average days with precipitation per month	average mm precipitation per month	average sea temperature (°C)
January	5	0	2	19		n/a
February	5	0	3	16		n/a
March	8	2	4	15		n/a
April	12	4	5	15		n/a
May	16	8	7	14		n/a
June	19	10	7	13		n/a
July	21	12	6	16		n/a
August	21	12	6	14		n/a
September	18	10	4	17		n/a
October	14	7	3	17		n/a
November	9	3	2	18		n/a
December	6	1	1	19		n/a
= 0-5 mm ● = 6-30 mm ● = 31-60 mm ● = 61-100 mm ● = 101-200 mm ● = over 200 mm = 0-0.2 inches ● = 0.2-1.2 inches ● = 1.2-2.4 inches ● = 2.5-4 inches ● = 4.1-8 inches ● = over 8 inches

More climate information
Climate figures are very useful but don’t present a general impression of the climate and the eventual weather circumstances within a certain period. The figures don’t always reflect the chance of wintry weather, extreme heat or hurricanes. That is why we offer useful extra climate information for each month of the year:

	chance of (very) hot weather	chance of (very) cool weather	chance of long-term precipitation	chance of hurricanes (cyclones)	chance of sunny days	UV-index
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