List of locations with a subtropical climate
This list of locations with a subtropical climate specifically lists locations considered within the subtropics. The subtropics are geographic and climate zones located roughly between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn and the 38th parallel in both hemispheres. Subtropical climate regimes can exist at high elevations within the tropics, such as across the Mexican Plateau and in Vietnam and Taiwan. Six climate classifications utilize the term to help define the various temperature and precipitation regimes for the planet Earth. Using the Trewartha climate classification eight or more months of the year within the subtropics have an average temperature at or above 10 °C (50.0 °F), with their coldest month averaging between 6 and 13 °C (42.8 and 55.4 °F). The Köppen climate classification instead classifies the warmest month above 22 °C (72 °F) and the coldest above 0 °C (32 °F) or −3 °C (27 °F) depending on preference.
A great portion of the world's deserts are located within the subtropics, due to the development of the subtropical ridge. Within the humid monsoon regimes in the subtropics, a wet season is seen annually during the summer, which is when most of the yearly rainfall falls. Within Mediterranean climate regime, the wet season occurs during the winter. Areas bordering warm oceans are prone to locally heavy rainfall from tropical cyclones, which can contribute a significant percentage of the annual rainfall. Plants such as date palms, citrus, mango, litchi, and avocado are grown within the subtropical.
Roads with reflectors also exist in most areas with subtropical climates.
Africa
- North Africa: most of including Algiers and Tamanrasset, Algeria; Alexandria and Cairo, Egypt; Benghazi and Tripoli, Libya; Taoudenni, Mali (which borders on a fully tropical climate); Casablanca and Tangier, Morocco; Dongola, Sudan; Tunis, Tunisia; and El Aaiún, Western Sahara. Most of the Sahara Desert is subtropical.
- Southern Africa: Most of South Africa including Cape Town, Durban, East London, Johannesburg, and Pretoria; and the coastal and southern portions and Windhoek in Namibia; Menongue, Angola ; Harare, Zimbabwe; Gaborone, Botswana; Lusaka, Zambia; Lilongwe, Malawi; Maseru, Lesotho; Lichinga, Mozambique; and Swaziland.
- Cape Verde: Chã das Caldeiras
- Democratic Republic of the Congo: Most of Katanga Province including Lubumbashi
- Djibouti: Airolaf
- Eritrea: Asmara
- Ethiopia: Addis Ababa
- Kenya: Nairobi
- Madagascar: highlands including Antananarivo
- Somalia: Erigavo
- South Sudan: Imatong Mountains
- Tanzania: Mbeya
- Uganda: Kabale
- Islands of the European Union around the Atlantic coast of NW Africa:
- Canary Islands, Spain: Las Palmas, Gran Canaria (which borders on a fully tropical climate); San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Tenerife; Fuerteventura; Lanzarote; and Santa Cruz de La Palma (which borders on a fully tropical climate)
- Madeira archipelago, Portugal
- Ceuta, Melilla, and Plazas de soberanía, Spain.
- Pantelleria and the Pelagie Islands, Italy.
- The Tristan da Cunha archipelago in the South Atlantic has a marine subtropical climate.
Americas
- Bermuda (which borders on a fully tropical climate)
- Brazil: São Paulo, Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Sul, Paraná, part of Mato Grosso do Sul.
- Dominican Republic: Constanza
- El Salvador: Cerro El Pital
- Guatemala: Antigua Guatemala, Fraijanes, Quetzaltenango
- Honduras: La Esperanza
- Mexico: most of the northern part and some other highland areas. Major cities include Aguascalientes City, Ciudad Juárez, Guadalajara, Hermosillo, León, Matamoros, Mexicali, Mexico City, Monterrey, Puebla City, Querétaro City, Reynosa, San Luis Potosí City, Tijuana, and Torreón.
- Panama: Cerro Punta
- South America: Buenos Aires, Argentina; Sucre, Bolivia; Antofagasta, Santiago, Valdivia, and Valparaíso, Chile; Bogotá, Colombia; Quito, Ecuador; southern Paraguay including Asunción (which borders on a fully tropical climate); Cusco and Lima, Perú; and Uruguay including Montevideo.
- Juan Fernández Islands in the Pacific off Chile
- United States: East Coast from South Virginia south to Florida (but not including tropical South Florida, Everglades, and the Florida Keys), Gulf Coast, parts of the inland South and Southwest and the West Coast from San Diego to northern California. Major cities: Atlanta;[1] Austin;[2] Charleston, South Carolina;[3] Dallas;[4] Houston;[5] Jacksonville;[6] Las Vegas;[7] Los Angeles;[8] Memphis;[9] New Orleans;[10] Norfolk;[11] Orlando;[12] Phoenix;[13] Raleigh;[14] San Antonio;[15] San Diego;[16] San Jose;[17] San Francisco;[18] Tampa.[19] Also Birmingham ; Brookings, Oregon ; Charlotte ; Chattanooga ; Columbia, South Carolina ; Crisfield, Maryland ; Daytona Beach ; Dyersburg, Tennessee ; El Paso ; Fort Myers, Florida (which borders on a fully tropical climate) ; Greensboro, North Carolina ; Jackson, Mississippi ; Las Cruces, New Mexico ; Little Rock ; Lubbock, Texas ; Mobile ; Montgomery ; Myrtle Beach ; Oklahoma City ; Pensacola ; Richmond, Virginia ; Sacramento ; St. George, Utah ; Savannah ; Tucson ; and Tulsa .
Eurasia
- Afghanistan: Herat, Jalalabad, Kandahar
- Albania: coastal including Tirana
- Azerbaijan: Baku, Lankaran
- Bangladesh: Far north including Rangpur City
- Bhutan: Thimphu
- Bosnia and Herzegovina: far south including Mostar
- Mainland China: Most areas south of the Qin Mountains and the Huai River, but not including the tropical southern half of Hainan.[20][21]
- Hong Kong
- Macau
- Cyprus
- European Union: Coastal and some inland areas around the Mediterranean including major parts of the Iberian Peninsula and Apennine Peninsula, and parts of the Balkan Peninsula and Southern France. Major metropolises (urban area above 1 million people): Athens, Barcelona, Bari, Bilbao, Bordeaux, Florence, Genoa, Lisbon, Madrid, Málaga, Marseilles, Naples, Nice, Palermo, Porto, Rome, Seville, Thessaloniki, and Valencia. Other places: Azores; Burgas, Bulgaria; Gibraltar; Koper, Slovenia; Malta; Split, Croatia; and Ushant off Brittany.
- Georgia: Batumi; Sukhumi, Abkhazia.[22]
- India: Agra, Allahabad, Amritsar, Bhopal (which borders on a fully tropical climate), Delhi, Dhanbad (which borders on a fully tropical climate), Ghaziabad, Guwahati, Lucknow, Meerut, Patna, Ranchi, and Varanasi.
- Iran: Isfahan, southern portions including Shiraz and Bandar Abbas (which borders on a fully tropical climate), and the Iranian shore of the Caspian Sea
- Japan: Shikoku, Kyūshū, Ryukyu Islands including Okinawa (though the Sakishima Islands border on a fully tropical climate), southern Honshū including Osaka and Tokyo, Izu Islands, Bonin Islands (which border on a fully tropical climate)
- Laos: extreme north including Phongsali
- Malaysia: Brinchang
- Middle East: Most of the Persian Gulf area; Bahrain; Baghdad and Mosul, Iraq; Israel; Jordan; Kuwait; Beirut, Lebanon; Saiq, Oman; Qatar; Northern Saudi Arabia including Medina (which borders on a fully tropical climate) and Riyadh; Damascus and Latakia, Syria; Fujairah, United Arab Emirates (which borders on a fully tropical climate); and Sana'a, Yemen.
- Monaco
- Montenegro: coastal including Podgorica
- Myanmar: Kachin State, Taunggyi
- Nepal: warm temperate zone including Kathmandu
- Pakistan: most of except for some highlands and the tropical Arabian Sea coast. Major cities include Faisalabad, Islamabad, Lahore, Mardan, Muzaffarabad, Peshawar, and Quetta.
- Philippines: Baguio (which borders on a fully tropical climate), Sagada
- Russia: Sochi, Tuapse
- South Korea: extreme south including Busan, Geoje, and Jeju
- Sri Lanka: Nuwara Eliya
- Taiwan: the northern half of the island including Taipei and Taichung
- Turkey: Coastal including Adana, Antalya, Istanbul, İzmir, Mersin, and Trabzon.
- Turkmenistan: Ashgabat, Mary
- United Kingdom: Coastal Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly[23]
- Uzbekistan: Termez
- Vietnam: North end including Hanoi and Haiphong, and Da Lat in the southern highlands.
Oceania
- Australia: New South Wales (though not most of the Tablelands and Highland regions), parts of Queensland and Western Australia, most of South Australia and Victoria, and Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. Major cities in Australia including Sydney, Newcastle, Melbourne , Perth, Brisbane, and Adelaide. Also Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island in the Pacific; Hobart, Tasmania ; and Mount Isa, Queensland .
- New Zealand: Using the Trewartha climate classification: The north and coastal regions of the North Island, including the Auckland, Northland and Bay of Plenty regions.[24] Also Wellington ; Blenheim and Nelson at the north end of South Island; the Kermadec Islands to the NE of North Island; and the Chatham Islands to the east of South Island. Using the Köppen climate classification, New Zealand has an oceanic climate except for the Kermadecs.
- Areas of the New Guinea Highlands including Wabag, Papua New Guinea
- Polynesia: Easter Island (which borders on a fully tropical climate), highlands of the Hawaiian Islands, Pitcairn Islands (which border on a fully tropical climate)
Southern Indian Ocean
These French overseas territories have a marine subtropical climate:
References
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- ↑ Thus parts of Jiangsu, Anhui, Henan, Hubei, Shaanxi, Chongqing, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou and the entirety of (excepting for higher elevations) Hunan, Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong and Guangxi are included. Major cities (limited to municipalities, provincial capitals and sub-provincial cities) included are Nanjing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Hefei, Nanchang, Fuzhou, Xiamen, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Nanning, Changsha, Wuhan, Chongqing, Chengdu, Guiyang and Kunming
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- ↑ Mackintosh, Lesley. "Overview of New Zealand Climate | NIWA". NIWA. The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research. Retrieved 15 August 2013.