The climate of Europe is Temperate.
 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2001 glossary definition is as follows:Climate in a narrow sense is usually defined as the "average weather", or more rigorously, as the statistical description in terms of the mean and variability of relevant quantities over a period ranging from months to thousands or millions of years
" Over historical time spans, there are a number of nearly constant variables that determine climate, including latitude, altitude, proportion of land to water, and proximity to oceans and mountains

