Kermanshah is the capital city of Kermanshah Province. The languages spoken by the people is Southern Kurdish, Laki and Persian. Kermanshah has a moderate and mountainous climate. Kermanshah has a climate heavily influenced by the proximity of the Zagros mountains, classified as a dry summer-continental climate. The city's altitude and exposed location relative to westerly winds makes precipitation a little bit high, but at the same time produces huge diurnal temperature swings especially in the virtually rainless summers, which remain extremely hot during the day. Kermanshah experiences rather cold winters and there are usually rainfalls in fall and spring. Snow cover is seen for at least a couple of weeks during winter.