The Mediterranean Sea nudges the coast of the city of Barcelona, while the Collserola ridge (part of the Serralada Litoral) borders the west of the city, with pine and oak woodland, fields and meadows, as well as wetland vegetation.
The Catalan capital, 166 kilometres from the French border and 120 kilometres south of the Pyrenees, is on a plain bordered by two rivers: the Llobregat in the south and the Besōs in the north.
Barcelona, in the area closest to the Serralada Litoral, is dotted with small hills (Monterols, Putget, Carmel, Rovira and Peira), and was once full of streams and small marshes. The promontory of Montjuīc is also by the coast, rising to a height of 191.7 metres.
Barcelona has a surface area of 100.4 square kilometres, forming part of the Barcelončs County, along with Santa Coloma de Gramenet, Badalona and Sant Adriā to the north, and Hospitalet de Llobregat along the southern border of the city.
The climate in Barcelona is typically Mediterranean. Summers are hot and humid, winters mild, and most of the rainfall is in spring and autumn. The average annual temperature for 2005, according to the Observatori de Can Bruixa, was 17.6 degrees Celsius.
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