Summary

Climatological characteristics along the northern Croatian Adriatic coast have been examined for nine meteorological stations for the summertime sea=land breeze circulation. The stations considered are Pula-airport, Opatija, Rijeka, Senj, Malinska, Rijeka-airport, Mali Lošinj, Rab and Zadar. The hourly surface measurements at each station from June to September for the period 1991–2004 as well as the radio-soundings in Zadar (from 2002 to 2004) were used for the analysis. A dataset with the sea=land breeze days was formed according to the several criteria. The mean daily maxima of both air and sea surface tem-peratures were more influenced by the large scale distur-bances toward north (e.g. in Rijeka or Opatija) compared to the values for e.g. Zadar. Furthermore, the influence of the large scale disturbances diminished toward the south con