Geography

What the land allowed. Choose a subject, then step through it above the map: rain and heat month by month, when the monsoon comes and how long it stays. Arrow keys move; the space bar plays the year.

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Click anywhere for the year at that place: rain and temperature by month, when the rains come and how long they stay, the climate zone, and the season and crop calendars of its country. Data: Natural Earth (public domain); HydroRIVERS v1.0, Lehner & Grill 2013; WorldClim 2.1, Fick & Hijmans 2017 (CC BY-SA 4.0), normals 1970–2000; ETOPO 2022, NOAA NCEI. Climate zones follow Peel, Finlayson & McMahon 2007 and are derived, as are the season measures; a wet month has at least 60 mm.