Tropics Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
region of the Earth surrounding the equator
About Tropics
At the Equator, day and night are about 12 hours each around the year, with pretty much no twilight (the sun rises and sets very rapidly). Elsewhere in the tropics the day and night differ slightly depending on the time of the year but very little compared to temperate latitudes. In the tropics the sun will reach zenith on two days every year (it depends on latitude). Save for high mountain areas, expect warm orhot weatheraround the year in the tropics. Seasons are defined as dry and wet; during the dry season it might not rain at all while wet seasons sometimes means more rain in a month than in a whole year in temperate destinations. The dry season is usually in the winter of that hemisphere — for instance most ofSoutheast Asiaor theCaribbeanwhich are north of the Equator have the driest
Tropics Travel Guide Sections
Our comprehensive guide covers 5 sections including: