The climate of the Crimean Mountains is transitional from continental to marine, it is often called mountain, or highland. The nature reserve’s climate is subtropical, close to the dry Mediterrenian climate.

Depending on the elevation climate changes a lot:
1) at low elevations it is close to the Mediterranean climate;
2) at high elevations it becomes humid temperate;

• On mountain pastures temperature decreases by 0,6° for every 100 m elevation increase;
• the precipitation increases: by 40−5 mm up to 600−800 m, by 20 mm above 800 m.