Climate

The favourability of the environmental conditions to support settlement by Man or the conditions fostered by such settlement e.g. an oasis.

Detailed Graphs

Colourful climate graphs for thousands of locations around the world depicting average temperatures, precipitation, wet days, sunlight hours, daylenth, sun altitude at solar noon, windspeed and relative humidity.

Köppen Climate Classification

Each locations climate is categorized using the Köppen Climate Classification. Monthly average temperature and preiciptation data is used to generate a 2 or 3 letter classification. The first letter places a climate in one of 5 major groups. These are A (tropical), B (arid), C (temperate), D (continental), and E (polar). The second letter indicates the preciptiation subgroup and the third letter the temperature subgroup.

Maps

Each climate guide has a map page dsplaying a topographic map of the location. Analyzing the map can help better undertand the climate. Altitude bands are tighter on steeper slopes wheras flatter terrain has bands spread out. Land use such as urban areas, forest and bodies of water like lakes, reservoirs and the ocean can effect the climate.

Navigation

Navigation options include the search engine, countries A-Z, maps and the full list of countries below. To navigate to a particular climate guide using the map below click on a highlighted area representing a cluster of station. Click again until the balloons representing the actual stations are visible. Clicking on a balloon will take you to the climate guide for that location. You can also zoom in and out by clicking on the + and - buttons. To move the map hold down the mouse button whilst positioning the map.



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