climatic

[ klahy-mat-ik ]

/ klaɪˈmæt ɪk /

of or relating to climate.

(of ecological phenomena) due to climate rather than to soil or topography.

Also cli·mat·i·cal, cli·mat·al

[klahy-mi-tl] /ˈklaɪ mɪ tl/.

Origin of climatic

First recorded in 1820–30; climate + -ic

cli·mat·i·cal·ly, adverb sub·cli·mat·ic, adjective

climactic climatic

Nor can their stagnant condition be ascribed to local or climatical causes.

The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races |Arthur, comte de Gobineau
The difference in the climatical relations of Japan and Europe is very considerable.

Vegetable Teratology |Maxwell T. Masters
But the geographical distribution of birds is rather a climatical one.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 |Various
No one could be cool and mother and divided and necessary and climatical and of origin and beneath that mean and be a sun.

Geography and Plays |Gertrude Stein