As an impact of climate change since the years around the Millennium draughts getting warm above Balaton, together with the moving of the sun changing from season to season, have formed unusual phenomena never seen before ruling the view of Badacsony the whole year round.

Global warming has brought significant changes into the climate of the surroundings of Balaton. Special micro-climate typical of lake shores has changed. As an impact of long dry periods without any precipitation and the extreme summer heat there were years like 2002, 2003 or 2013, when areas near the shore were totally dried up. The amount of 200-300 million cubic metres of water missing from the Balaton reduced the humidity of the air as well decreasing perspective effect, which causes optical illusion for the eye. That made it possible to observe atmospheric occurences in autumn and in winter which formerly had been hidden from the eyes by the foggy November or February sky. Colour flowers blooming in the autumn sky has totally changed the landscape of the lake. Refractions, which could have only been observed in summer so far, hand in hand with cold air and changed visibility have formed a new set of scenery for the usual background of Badacsony. Moreover the number of airplanes flying over the lake has increased significantly due to both the millitary activity of NATO and the frequency of civil lines. The increased traffic resulted in scenic increase of vapour trails as well generating further changes in the atmospheric phenomena of the lake and the vistas of the northern shore.

Badacsony, the highest monadnock of the Tapolca basin towering high wedged between the two bays of Balaton. The circumference of the nearly round hill is 11 kilometres, the diameter of its roof region is 1-1.5 kilometres, slightly elongated from north to south, and its highest point in elevation is 437.4 metres. Up to the height of 280 metres its side is covered by loose deposits especially suitable for viniculture, above that grey basalt rocks and stone streams emerge from the thickness of the forest. That is the result of a former vulcanic activity under the sea which formed the monadnocks of Tapolca basin in Balaton highland (Badacsony, Szent György-hegy, Csobánc, Gulács, Tóti-hegy, Haláp). Monadnock is a geographical notion or rather a landform; a kind of isolated hill or ridge which, thanks to its solid rocky material, preserved the original height and layers of the surface of the surrounding, eroded area.