Climate

Climate : Taiwan being a small country has a variety of weather during the year. Since it is between the largest continent [Asia], the largest ocean [Pacific] and also has the tropic of cancer running right in the middle of the island it has two main climate systems. The first climate system is a tropical monsoon climate in the south and a subtropical monsoon climate in the north. They sound really close but a tropical climate has high temperatures and high humidity while subtropical climate has high temperatures but low humidity.

The latitude and topography, ocean currents and monsoons are the main contributing factors. According to Koppen's climate classification, the four climate types in Taiwan are a Monsoon and Trade-Wind Coastal Climate in the south, Mild, Humid Climate in the north, Wet-Dry Tropical Climate in the west, and the Temperate Rainy Climate with Dry Winter in mountain areas. (Source: The Climate of Taiwan)

Fig. 1 This is a chart of Taipei, Taiwan averages throughout the year.
This chart is from http://www.taiwan.climatemps.com/

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Avg. Temperature	66	67	72	77	81	83	84	83	82	79	75	70
Avg. Max Temperature	74	74	79	83	86	88	90	88	88	85	82	77
Avg. Min Temperature	59	60	65	71	76	78	79	78	77	74	69	63
Avg. Rain Days	4	5	4	4	10	12	11	14	7	4	1	2
Avg. Snow Days	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Fig. 2 This is a chart of Kaohsiung, Taiwan averages over 8 years

This chart is from http://www.climate-zone.com/climate/taiwan/fahrenheit/kaohsiung.htm

Fig. 3 This chart shows Kaohsiung, Taiwan average precipitation during the year.
This chart is from http://www.worldweatheronline.com/Kaohsiung-weather-averages/Kao-hsiung/TW.aspx

Comparing both the charts both of the cities have relatively close average and also high temperatures but Taiwan gets a lot more precipitation than Kaohsiung.

Fig. 4 This is a chart of Colorado's average precipitation and temperatures.
This chart is from http://drought.unl.edu/archive/climographs/images/DenverMTMP.jpg

Taiwan's annual temperature is a lot hotter than Denver's. Denver's annual temperature is 14˚C while Taiwan's annual temperature is 22˚C. Taiwan has a very small seasonality being that it is on the tropic of cancer making it having high temperatures, while Denver has a large seasonality since Colorado gets all four seasons.

This is an excel made graph showing the differences in precipitation between Denver, Taipei, and Guangzhou

This is an excel made graph showing the temperature differences between Guangzhou, Taipei and Denver.