Climate Types Average
Temperature
Precipitation
Rate
Seasons Other
Characteristic
Locations
Tropical wet 80 degrees 100 inches of rain
per year
1 season (rain) Little variation in
temperature
Brazil, Indonesia
Tropical Dry 77-68 degrees 4-25 inches of
rainfall depends
on season
2 seasons
(summer, winter)
There is less
rainfall
Africa, Brazil,
India
Semiarid -15 degrees 16 inches per
year
Seasons change
depends on
latitude ( summer,
winter)
For agriculture Africa
Desert 40 degrees and
above
Less than 10
inches per year
high temperature Egypt
Mediterranean 30-65 degrees Around 20 inches
per year
2 seasons
( summer, winter)
Dense
population, for
agriculture
Australia ,
California
Marine West
Coast
72 degrees 30-98 inches per
year
2 seasons
( summer ,winter)
Mist and fog Europe,
Northwest
America
Humid
Subtropical
70-80 degrees 48 inches of rain
per year
2 seasons
(summer , winter)
Long period of
summer
Southeast
America
Humid
Continental
25-71 degrees Between 20-50
inches per year
4 seasons
(summer ,fall
,winter, spring)
Great variation in
temperature and
precipitation rate
East America
Subarctic -40 to 125
degrees
10-20 inches per
year
2 seasons
(summer, winter)
Huge
temperature
variation
Canada
Tundra -18- 50 degrees 15 inches of rain
per year
1 season (
summer)
Cold Arctic ,
Antarctic,
Northern Russia
Polar Below 0 Less than 10
inches of rain fall
Freezing
temperature and
rarely snow
