Climate
Climatically, the most favoured areas in Germany have a “wine climate”. Grapevines, almonds, figs, sweet chestnuts and other southern plants as well as wild vines in the lowland riparian forest are visible signs for a "wine climate". The Southern Wine Route is situated in the Upper-Rhenish lowlands. In the West it is protected from the cold winds by the Palatine Forest and in the North and East by a mountain range along the river Rhine. This is the reason why the Palatinate wine region belongs climatically to one of the most favourable areas in Central Europe. There are 1800 hours of sunshine in this region, 200 of which are mainly in the intensive vegetation summer months. The yearly average temperature is between nine and ten degrees Celsius. Also in the winter months the average temperature rarely sinks below zero degrees.
Logically, a great amount of sunshine keeps away the rain. The prevailing West winds (Sea climate with North-West and South-West winds) bring clouds and rain over the Palatine forest. In the Southern Wine Route it rains approximately 700 millimetres in a year, but this is luckily well distributed across all moths of the year.
Gleisweiler is for over 100 years a valued spa village and has maintained the title of the warmest spot in Germany.