Country ranking for field: climate 1993

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This entry includes a brief description of typical weather regimes throughout the year; in the Word entry only, it includes four subfields that describe climate extremes:|ten driest places on earth (average annual precipitation) describes the annual average precipitation measured in both millimeters and inches for selected countries with climate extremes.

	World	two large areas of polar climates separated by two rather narrow temperate zones from a wide equatorial band of tropical to subtropical climates
1	Afghanistan	0
2	Papua New Guinea	tropical; northwest monsoon
3	Nicaragua	tropical in lowlands cooler in highlands
4	Niger	desert; mostly hot dry dusty; tropical in extreme south
5	Nigeria	varies; equatorial in south tropical in center arid in north
6	Niue	tropical; modified by southeast trade winds
7	Norfolk Island	subtropical mild little seasonal temperature variation
8	North Korea	temperate with rainfall concentrated in summer
9	Northern Mariana Islands	tropical marine; moderated by northeast trade winds little seasonal temperature variation; dry season December to June rainy season July to October
10	Norway	temperate along coast modified by North Atlantic Current; colder interior; rainy year-round on west coast
11	Oman	dry desert; hot humid along coast; hot dry interior; strong southwest summer monsoon
12	Asian land mass back to the ocean	the western Pacific is monsoonal - a rainy season occurs during the summer months when moisture-laden winds blow from the ocean over the land and a dry season during the winter months when dry winds blow from the
13	Pakistan	mostly hot dry desert; temperate in northwest; arctic in north
14	Palmyra Atoll	equatorial hot and very rainy
15	Panama	tropical; hot humid cloudy; prolonged rainy season
16	Paracel Islands	tropical
17	New Caledonia	tropical; modified by southeast trade winds; hot humid
18	Paraguay	varies from temperate in east to semiarid in far west
19	Peru	varies from tropical in east to dry desert in west
20	Philippines	tropical marine; northeast monsoon
21	Pitcairn Islands	tropical hot humid modified by southeast trade winds; rainy season
22	Poland	temperate with cold cloudy moderately severe winters with frequent precipitation; mild summers with frequent showers and thundershowers
23	Portugal	maritime temperate; cool and rainy in north warmer and drier in south
24	Puerto Rico	tropical marine mild little seasonal temperature variation
25	Qatar	desert; hot dry; humid and sultry in summer
26	Romania	temperate; cold cloudy winters with frequent snow and fog; sunny summers with frequent showers and thunderstorms
27	Russia	ranges from steppes in the south through humid continental in much of European Russia; subarctic in Siberia to tundra climate in the polar north; winters vary from cool along Black Sea coast to frigid in Siberia; summers vary from warm in the steppes to cool along Arctic coast
28	Rwanda	temperate; two rainy seasons
29	Réunion	tropical but moderates with elevation; cool and dry from May to; November hot and rainy from November to April
30	Saint Helena	tropical; marine; mild tempered by trade winds
31	New Zealand	temperate with sharp regional contrasts
32	Netherlands Antilles	tropical; ameliorated by northeast trade winds
33	January to April rainy season from May to August	tropical moderated by northeast trade winds; dry season from
34	Martinique	tropical; moderated by trade winds; rainy season
35	Libya	Mediterranean along coast; dry extreme desert interior
36	Liechtenstein	continental; cold cloudy winters with frequent snow or rain; cool to moderately warm cloudy humid summers
37	Lithuania	maritime; wet moderate winters
38	Luxembourg	modified continental with mild winters cool summers
39	Macau	subtropical; marine with cool winters warm summers
40	Macedonia	hot dry summers and autumns and relatively cold winters with heavy snowfall
41	Madagascar	tropical along coast temperate inland arid in south
42	Malawi	tropical; rainy season
43	Malaysia	tropical; annual southwest
44	Maldives	tropical; hot humid; dry northeast monsoon
45	Mali	subtropical to arid; hot and dry February to June; rainy humid and mild June to November; cool and dry November to February
46	Malta	Mediterranean with mild rainy winters and hot dry summers
47	Marshall Islands	wet season May to November; hot and humid; islands border typhoon belt
48	Mauritania	desert; constantly hot dry dusty
49	Nepal	varies from cool summers and severe winters in north to subtropical summers and mild winters in south
50	Mauritius	tropical modified by southeast trade winds; warm dry winter
51	Mayotte	tropical; marine; hot humid rainy season during northeastern monsoon
52	Mexico	varies from tropical to desert
53	Midway Islands	tropical but moderated by prevailing easterly winds
54	Moldova	mild winters warm summers
55	Monaco	Mediterranean with mild wet winters and hot dry summers
56	Mongolia	desert; continental
57	Montserrat	tropical; little daily or seasonal temperature variation
58	Mozambique	tropical to subtropical
59	Myanmar	tropical monsoon; cloudy rainy hot humid summers
60	Namibia	desert; hot dry; rainfall sparse and erratic
61	Nauru	tropical; monsoonal; rainy season
62	Navassa Island	marine tropical
63	Saint Kitts and Nevis	subtropical tempered by constant sea breezes; little seasonal temperature variation; rainy season
64	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	tropical; little seasonal temperature variation; rainy season
65	Lesotho	temperate; cool to cold dry winters; hot wet summers
66	Atlantic Current; more than half of the days are overcast	temperate; moderated by prevailing southwest winds over the North
67	Tokelau	tropical; moderated by trade winds
68	Tonga	tropical; modified by trade winds; warm season
69	Trinidad and Tobago	tropical; rainy season
70	Tromelin Island	tropical
71	Tunisia	temperate in north with mild rainy winters and hot dry summers; desert in south
72	Turkey	temperate; hot dry summers with mild wet winters; harsher in interior
73	Turkmenistan	subtropical desert
74	Turks and Caicos Islands	tropical; marine; moderated by trade winds; sunny and relatively dry
75	Tuvalu	tropical; moderated by easterly trade winds
76	U.S. Virgin Islands	subtropical tempered by easterly tradewinds relatively low humidity little seasonal temperature variation; rainy season May to November
77	Uganda	tropical; generally rainy with two dry seasons
78	Sea to cold farther inland; summers are warm across the greater part of the country hot in the south	temperate continental; subtropical only on the southern Crimean coast; precipitation disproportionately distributed highest in west and north lesser in east and southeast; winters vary from cool along the Black
79	United Arab Emirates	desert; cooler in eastern mountains
80	United States	mostly temperate but tropical in Hawaii and Florida and arctic in Alaska semiarid in the great plains west of the Mississippi River and arid in the Great Basin of the southwest; low winter temperatures in the northwest are ameliorated occasionally in January and February by warm chinook winds from the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains
81	The Netherlands	temperate; marine; cool summers and mild winters
82	Uruguay	warm temperate; freezing temperatures almost unknown
83	Uzbekistan	mostly mid latitude desert; semiarid grassland in east
84	Vanuatu	tropical; moderated by southeast trade winds
85	Venezuela	tropical; hot humid; more moderate in highlands
86	Vietnam	tropical in south; monsoonal in north with hot rainy season
87	Wake Island	tropical
88	Wallis and Futuna	tropical; hot rainy season
89	West Bank	temperate temperature and precipitation vary with altitude warm to hot summers cool to mild winters
90	Western Sahara	hot dry desert; rain is rare; cold offshore air currents produce fog and heavy dew
91	Western Samoa	tropical; rainy season
92	Yemen	mostly desert; hot and humid along west coast; temperate in western mountains affected by seasonal monsoon; extraordinarily hot dry harsh desert in east
93	Zaire	tropical; hot and humid in equatorial river basin; cooler and drier in southern highlands; cooler and wetter in eastern highlands; north of; Equator - wet season April to October dry season December to February; south of Equator - wet season November to March dry season April to October
94	Zambia	tropical; modified by altitude; rainy season
95	Togo	tropical; hot humid in south; semiarid in north
96	The Gambia	tropical; hot rainy season
97	Saint-Pierre and Miquelon	cold and wet with much mist and fog; spring and autumn are windy
98	South Korea	temperate with rainfall heavier in summer than winter
99	San Marino	Mediterranean; mild to cool winters; warm sunny summers
100	Saudi Arabia	harsh dry desert with great extremes of temperature
101	Senegal	tropical; hot humid; rainy season
102	Serbia and Montenegro	in the north continental climate
103	Seychelles	tropical marine; humid; cooler season during southeast monsoon
104	Sierra Leone	tropical; hot humid; summer rainy season
105	Singapore	tropical; hot humid rainy; no pronounced rainy or dry seasons; thunderstorms occur on 40% of all days
106	Slovakia	temperate; cool summers; cold cloudy humid winters the south
107	Slovenia	Mediterranean climate on the coast continental climate with mild to hot summers and cold winters in the plateaus and valleys to the east
108	Solomon Islands	tropical monsoon; few extremes of temperature and weather
109	Somalia	desert; northeast monsoon
110	South Africa	mostly semiarid; subtropical along coast; sunny days cool nights
111	South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands	variable with mostly westerly winds throughout the year interspersed with periods of calm; nearly all precipitation falls as snow
112	Spain	temperate; clear hot summers in interior more moderate and cloudy along coast; cloudy cold winters in interior partly cloudy and cool along coast
113	The Bahamas	tropical marine; moderated by warm waters of Gulf Stream
114	Spratly Islands	tropical
115	Sri Lanka	tropical monsoon; northeast monsoon
116	Suriname	tropical; moderated by trade winds
117	Spitsbergen keeping water open and navigable most of the year	arctic tempered by warm North Atlantic Current; cool summers cold winters; North Atlantic Current flows along west and north coasts of
118	Swaziland	varies from tropical to near temperate
119	Sweden	temperate in south with cold cloudy winters and cool partly cloudy summers; subarctic in north
120	Switzerland	temperate but varies with altitude; cold cloudy rainy/snowy winters; cool to warm cloudy humid summers with occasional showers
121	Syria	mostly desert; hot dry sunny summers
122	São Tomé and Príncipe	tropical; hot humid; one rainy season
123	Taiwan	tropical; marine; rainy season during southwest monsoon
124	Tajikistan	midlatitude; semiarid to polar in Pamir Mountains
125	Tanzania	varies from tropical along coast to temperate in highlands
126	Thailand	tropical; rainy warm cloudy southwest monsoon
127	Liberia	tropical; hot humid; dry winters with hot days and cool to cold nights; wet cloudy summers with frequent heavy showers
128	Lebanon mountians experience heavy winter snows and Anti-Lebanon Mountains	Mediterranean; mild to cool wet winters with hot dry summers;
129	Albania	mild temperate; cool cloudy wet winters; hot clear dry summers; interior is cooler and wetter
130	Clipperton Island	tropical
131	Brunei	tropical; hot humid rainy
132	Burkina Faso	tropical; warm dry winters; hot wet summers
133	Burundi	temperate; warm; occasional frost in uplands
134	Cabo Verde	temperate; warm dry summer; precipitation very erratic
135	Cambodia	tropical; rainy monsoon season
136	Cameroon	varies with terrain from tropical along coast to semiarid and hot in north
137	Canada	varies from temperate in south to subarctic and arctic in north
138	Cayman Islands	tropical marine; warm rainy summers
139	Central African Republic	tropical; hot dry winters; mild to hot wet summers
140	Chad	tropical in south desert in north
141	Chile	temperate; desert in north; cool and damp in south
142	China	extremely diverse; tropical in south to subarctic in north
143	Christmas Island	tropical; heat and humidity moderated by trade winds
144	Cocos Islands	pleasant modified by the southeast trade wind for about nine months of the year; moderate rain fall
145	British Indian Ocean Territory	tropical marine; hot humid moderated by trade winds
146	Colombia	tropical along coast and eastern plains; cooler in highlands
147	Comoros	tropical marine; rainy season
148	Cook Islands	tropical; moderated by trade winds
149	Coral Sea Islands	tropical
150	Costa Rica	tropical; dry season
151	Croatia	Mediterranean and continental; continental climate predominant with hot summers and cold winters; mild winters dry summers along coast
152	Cuba	tropical; moderated by trade winds; dry season
153	Cyprus	temperate Mediterranean with hot dry summers and cool wet winters
154	Côte d'Ivoire	tropical along coast semiarid in far north; three seasons - warm and dry
155	Djibouti	desert; torrid dry
156	Dominica	tropical; moderated by northeast trade winds; heavy rainfall
157	Ecuador	tropical along coast becoming cooler inland
158	Egypt	desert; hot dry summers with moderate winters
159	British Virgin Islands	subtropical; humid; temperatures moderated by trade winds
160	Brazil	mostly tropical but temperate in south
161	Equatorial Guinea	tropical; always hot humid
162	Austria	temperate; continental cloudy; cold winters with frequent rain in lowlands and snow in mountains; cool summers with occasional showers
163	Algeria	arid to semiarid; mild wet winters with hot dry summers along coast; drier with cold winters and hot summers on high plateau; sirocco is a hot dust/sand-laden wind especially common in summer discontinuous coastal plain
164	American Samoa	tropical marine moderated by southeast trade winds; annual rainfall averages 124 inches; rainy season from November to April dry season from May to October; little seasonal temperature variation
165	Andorra	temperate; snowy cold winters and cool dry summers
166	Angola	semiarid in south and along coast to Luanda; north has cool dry season
167	Anguilla	tropical; moderated by northeast trade winds
168	Wilkes Land the Antarctic Peninsula area and parts of Ross Island on McMurdo	severe low temperatures vary with latitude elevation and distance from the ocean; East Antarctica is colder than West Antarctica because of its higher elevation; Antarctic Peninsula has the most moderate climate; higher temperatures occur in January along the coast and average slightly below freezing meters high; ice-free coastal areas include parts of southern Victoria Land
169	Arctic Ocean	polar climate characterized by persistent cold and relatively narrow annual temperature ranges; winters characterized by continuous darkness cold and stable weather conditions and clear skies; summers characterized by continuous daylight damp and foggy weather and weak cyclones with rain or snow
170	Argentina	mostly temperate; arid in southeast; subantarctic in southwest
171	Armenia	continental hot and subject to drought
172	Aruba	tropical marine; little seasonal temperature variation
173	Ashmore and Cartier Islands	tropical
174	Atlantic Ocean	tropical cyclones
175	Australia	generally arid to semiarid; temperate in south and east; tropical in north
176	Azerbaijan	dry semiarid steppe; subject to drought
177	Bouvet Island	antarctic
178	Bahrain	arid; mild pleasant winters; very hot humid summers
179	Baker Island	equatorial; scant rainfall constant wind burning sun
180	Bangladesh	tropical; cool dry winter
181	Barbados	tropical; rainy season
182	Bassas da India	tropical
183	Belgium	temperate; mild winters cool summers; rainy humid cloudy
184	Belize	tropical; very hot and humid; rainy season
185	Benin	tropical; hot humid in south; semiarid in north
186	Bermuda	subtropical; mild humid; gales strong winds common in winter
187	Bhutan	varies; tropical in southern plains; cool winters and hot summers in central valleys; severe winters and cool summers in Himalayas
188	Bolivia	varies with altitude; humid and tropical to cold and semiarid
189	Bosnia and Herzegovina	hot summers and cold winters; areas of high elevation have short cool summers and long severe winters; mild rainy winters along coast
190	Botswana	semiarid; warm winters and hot summers
191	El Salvador	tropical; rainy season
192	Eritrea	hot dry desert strip along Red Sea coast; cooler and wetter in the central highlands
193	Latvia	maritime; wet moderate winters
194	Jamaica	tropical; hot humid; temperate interior
195	Hong Kong	tropical monsoon; cool and humid in winter hot and rainy from spring through summer warm and sunny in fall
196	Howland Island	equatorial; scant rainfall constant wind burning sun
197	Hungary	temperate; cold cloudy humid winters; warm summers
198	Iceland	temperate; moderated by North Atlantic Current; mild windy winters; damp cool summers
199	India	varies from tropical monsoon in south to temperate in north
200	Indian Ocean	northeast monsoon
201	Indonesia	tropical; hot humid; more moderate in highlands
202	Iran	mostly arid or semiarid subtropical along Caspian coast
203	Iraq	mostly desert; mild to cool winters with dry hot cloudless summers; northernmost regions along Iranian and Turkish borders experience cold winters with occasionally heavy snows
204	Ireland	temperate maritime; modified by North Atlantic Current; mild winters cool summers; consistently humid; overcast about half the time
205	Isle of Man	cool summers and mild winters; humid; overcast about half the time
206	Israel	temperate; hot and dry in southern and eastern desert areas
207	Italy	predominantly Mediterranean; Alpine in far north; hot dry in south
208	Jan Mayen	arctic maritime with frequent storms and persistent fog
209	Holy See	temperate; mild rainy winters
210	Japan	varies from tropical in south to cool temperate in north
211	Jarvis Island	tropical; scant rainfall constant wind burning sun
212	Jersey	temperate; mild winters and cool summers
213	Johnston Atoll	tropical but generally dry; consistent northeast trade winds with little seasonal temperature variation
214	Jordan	mostly arid desert; rainy season in west
215	Juan de Nova Island	tropical
216	Kazakhstan	continental arid and semiarid
217	Valley; fertile plateau in west	varies from tropical along coast to arid in interior
218	Kingman Reef	tropical but moderated by prevailing winds
219	Kiribati	tropical; marine hot and humid moderated by trade winds
220	Kuwait	dry desert; intensely hot summers; short cool winters
221	Kyrgyzstan	dry continental to polar in high Tien Shan; subtropical in south
222	Laos	tropical monsoon; rainy season
223	Honduras	subtropical in lowlands temperate in mountains
224	Heard Island and McDonald Islands	antarctic
225	Estonia	maritime wet moderate winters
226	Georgia	warm and pleasant; Mediterranean-like on Black Sea coast
227	Ethiopia	tropical monsoon with wide topographic-induced variation; some areas prone to extended droughts
228	Europa Island	tropical
229	Falkland Islands	cold marine; strong westerly winds cloudy humid; rain occurs on more than half of days in year; occasional snow all year except in January and February but does not accumulate
230	Faroe Islands	mild winters cool summers; usually overcast; foggy windy
231	Federated States of Micronesia	tropical; heavy year-round rainfall especially in the eastern islands; located on southern edge of the typhoon belt with occasional severe damage
232	Fiji	tropical marine; only slight seasonal temperature variation
233	Finland	cold temperate; potentially subarctic but comparatively mild because of moderating influence of the North Atlantic Current Baltic Sea and more than 60000 lakes
234	France	generally cool winters and mild summers but mild winters and hot summers along the Mediterranean
235	French Guiana	tropical; hot humid; little seasonal temperature variation
236	French Polynesia	tropical but moderate
237	French Southern and Antarctic Lands	antarctic
238	Gabon	tropical; always hot humid
239	Gaza Strip	temperate mild winters dry and warm to hot summers
240	Germany	temperate and marine; cool cloudy wet winters and summers; occasional warm tropical foehn wind; high relative humidity
241	Haiti	tropical; semiarid where mountains in east cut off trade winds
242	Ghana	tropical; warm and comparatively dry along southeast coast; hot and humid in southwest; hot and dry in north
243	Gibraltar	Mediterranean with mild winters and warm summers
244	Glorioso Islands	tropical
245	Greece	temperate; mild wet winters; hot dry summers
246	Greenland	arctic to subarctic; cool summers cold winters
247	Grenada	tropical; tempered by northeast trade winds
248	Guadeloupe	subtropical tempered by trade winds; relatively high humidity
249	December; little seasonal temperature variation	tropical marine; generally warm and humid moderated by northeast trade winds; dry season from January to June rainy season from July to
250	Guatemala	tropical; hot humid in lowlands; cooler in highlands
251	Guernsey	temperate with mild winters and cool summers; about 50% of days are overcast
252	Guinea-Bissau	tropical; generally hot and humid; monsoonal-type rainy season
253	Guinea	generally hot and humid; monsoonal-type rainy season
254	Guyana	tropical; hot humid moderated by northeast trade winds; two rainy seasons
255	Zimbabwe	tropical; moderated by altitude; rainy season

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