Belize has a subtropical to tropical environment with (in Belize City) mean monthly minima ranging from 16º C (60º F) in winter to 24º C (75º F) in summer. Mean monthly maxima range from 28º C (82º F) in winter to 33º C (81º F) in summer. Inland, and especially higher in the hills, the mean minima are noticeably lower.
Throughout Belize there is a pronounced dry season from February through May. But rainfall varies dramatically between the north of Belize and the south. Figures range from 1,200 mm (48") in the north (Sarteneja 1,272 mm = 51" in the period 1989-1994) to over 4,000 mm (160") per year in the south (4,179 mm = 167" in Punta Gorda). Unfortunately, the amount of data points is limited and especially from inland and higher altitude locations in the south, no data are available at all. The rainfall isohyets in the figure below are adapted from Walker (1973).
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