Ovada

The area, located on the northern foothills of the Ligurian-Piedmontese Apennines and at the entrance of the Stura valley leading to the Turchino pass, is hilly, tending to mountainous heading south, with plains where agriculture is practiced and where the industries have established their factories near the main connections. The city lies on the confluence of the Stura of Ovada torrent into the Orba river, at an altitude of 186 meters above sea level.

The fauna includes badgers, dormice, deer, wild boar, martens, squirrels, hares, partridges, foxes and weasels. There are also nocturnal birds like owls, hawks, kestrels and buzzards. The more frequent fish is trout.

The 2024 Milano-Sanremo cycle race passed through Ovado on March 16.{{cite web | url=https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milan%E2%80%93San_Remo | title=Milan–San Remo - Wikipedia }}{{Circular reference|date=May 2024}}

The climate is temperate with quite marked features of continental climate. Being protected from the south by the south and south-west winds by the chain of the Apennines, the winters have moderate snowfalls: Ovada receives more snowfall than other Italian towns located at the same altitude since the territory of the low Alessandrino and generally in Lower Piedmont, is often home to major inversions that warm southerly winds fail to unseat. Also for this reason, morning temperatures in winter easily drop below 0 °C. The close proximity to the Ligurian Sea (less than 25 km), where cyclones often dig deep minimum of low pressure, combined with the orographic lift effect of the Apennines south of Ovada, mean that precipitation proves fairly abundant especially in the autumn months. Spring is often very windy and moderately rainy. Summer in Ovada is the driest season, unlike the rest of the Piedmont (where, due to the proximity of the Alps, storms often form). Remaining, even in summer, rather windy, the summer weather in Ovada hardly looks sultry and temperatures only during strong African heat waves exceed 30 °C. In the fall with the return of the Atlantic cyclones the weather is often overcast and rainy, and occasionally the fog appears, although much less than in other areas of Piedmont and the Po Valley. Ovada is also affected for a few days a year of moist air coming from the Ligurian Sea, called Marin, which in some cases can even lead the smell of salt air in these territories and mild temperatures even in winter.

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| location = Ovada, elevation: 193 m (633 ft), modeled 1999-2019 averages

| metric first = Y

| single line = Y

| Jan high C = 5.9

| Feb high C = 7.4

| Mar high C = 11.6

| Apr high C = 15.2

| May high C = 19.0

| Jun high C = 23.8

| Jul high C = 26.4

| Aug high C = 26.1

| Sep high C = 21.6

| Oct high C = 16.4

| Nov high C = 10.5

| Dec high C = 6.6

| year high C =

| Jan mean C = 2.3

| Feb mean C = 3.4

| Mar mean C = 7.2

| Apr mean C = 10.8

| May mean C = 14.8

| Jun mean C = 19.3

| Jul mean C = 21.7

| Aug mean C = 21.5

| Sep mean C = 17.3

| Oct mean C = 12.8

| Nov mean C = 7.4

| Dec mean C = 3.3

| year mean C =

| Jan low C = -0.6

| Feb low C = -0.2

| Mar low C = 2.8

| Apr low C = 6.4

| May low C = 10.4

| Jun low C = 14.7

| Jul low C = 17.1

| Aug low C = 17.1

| Sep low C = 13.3

| Oct low C = 9.5

| Nov low C = 4.5

| Dec low C = 0.4

| year low C =

|precipitation colour = green

| Jan precipitation mm = 70

| Feb precipitation mm = 62

| Mar precipitation mm = 67

| Apr precipitation mm = 88

| May precipitation mm = 78

| Jun precipitation mm = 57

| Jul precipitation mm = 40

| Aug precipitation mm = 52

| Sep precipitation mm = 91

| Oct precipitation mm = 121

| Nov precipitation mm = 139

| Dec precipitation mm = 80

| year precipitation mm =

| Jan humidity = 82

| Feb humidity = 77

| Mar humidity = 73

| Apr humidity = 73

| May humidity = 73

| Jun humidity = 70

| Jul humidity = 65

| Aug humidity = 68

| Sep humidity = 71

| Oct humidity = 79

| Nov humidity = 83

| Dec humidity = 81

| year humidity =

| Jan rain days = 6

| Feb rain days = 5

| Mar rain days = 6

| Apr rain days = 8

| May rain days = 8

| Jun rain days = 7

| Jul rain days = 5

| Aug rain days = 6

| Sep rain days = 7

| Oct rain days = 8

| Nov rain days = 8

| Dec rain days = 7

| year rain days =

| Jand sun = 4.6

| Febd sun = 5.7

| Mard sun = 7.3

| Aprd sun = 8.7

| Mayd sun = 10.5

| Jund sun = 11.8

| Juld sun = 12.0

| Augd sun = 10.7

| Sepd sun = 8.8

| Octd sun = 5.5

| Novd sun = 4.2

| Decd sun = 4.4

| yeard sun =

| source = climate-data.org [https://en.climate-data.org/europe/italy/piemont/ovada-13485/]

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