The Belize Climate
Charts and Weather Station

Don`t be put of by my seemingly cloudy pics and videos. The Belize climate is governed by altitude and seasons and it is a sub-tropical country. That means it enjoys warm winters and hot summers.

While the lowland can be very hot and sticky especially around the rainy season, the high altitudes stay cool in the shade even mid-summer.

The couple of days we spend on Ambergis Caye, it only bucketed down once and that only lasted for a half hour or so.

Most of the time we relished under the hot sun and when we were anywhere near the sea, we enjoyed the cool breezes that made the temperature just right.

Some of the shooting in my videos does not show it to be sunny even when it was. Strange, I know but the weather in Belize is pleasant most of the time!

Put on your shades to view these Belize Climate charts. I made the temperature one in hot colours to let you feel the heat.

Your talking 50 to 95 degrees F, average 75. November to January are "cool" months whereas, May to September are the scorchers, averaging 81.

The average annual rainfall in Belize is about 50 inches in the North to about 180 in the south. You can see how many average days in each month it rains in my chart.

Now you know why I am driving through so much water on the Southern Highway, Toledo District during the months of September and October.

During the first half of the year, from February to July the weather in Belize is fairly windy. Between 10 to 20 knots. The direction of the wind most of the time comes from the east/north east, bringing the onshore to cross onshore winds. Great for windsurfers!

During hurricane season, which runs from July to October, you have tropical cyclones or depressions where average sustained wind speeds can reach 38 mph. Then you have the Tropical storms which exceed 38 mph to 73 mph. Hurricanes are the next category up which blow at a tremendous -

But you don`t want to be going out during an actual hurricane now do you? Do You?

Then around October time through to January, which is usually between 30 dropping to 27 Celcius, not exactly what you would call winter, the "cold fronts" breeze in.

All in all the Belize climate is a pleasant one. Not unbearably hot, and never chilly, not unless your are up in the Maya mountains or the pine forests! Pine forests?

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