word | | Climate |
| navigable | Svalbard | arctic, tempered by warm North Atlantic Current; cool summers, cold winters; North Atlantic Current flows along west and north coasts of Spitsbergen, keeping water open and navigable most of the year |
| nights | Liberia | tropical; hot, humid; dry winters with hot days and cool to cold nights; wet, cloudy summers with frequent heavy showers |
| nights | South Africa | mostly semiarid; subtropical along east coast; sunny days, cool nights |
| nine | Cocos (Keeling) Islands | tropical with high humidity, moderated by the southeast trade winds for about nine months of the year |
| north | Angola | semiarid in south and along coast to Luanda; north has cool, dry season (May to October) and hot, rainy season (November to April) |
| north | Australia | generally arid to semiarid; temperate in south and east; tropical in north |
| north | Benin | tropical; hot, humid in south; semiarid in north |
| north | Cameroon | varies with terrain, from tropical along coast to semiarid and hot in north |
| north | Canada | varies from temperate in south to subarctic and arctic in north |
| north | Chad | tropical in south, desert in north |
| north | Chile | temperate; desert in north; Mediterranean in central region; cool and damp in south |
| north | China | extremely diverse; tropical in south to subarctic in north |
| north | Congo, Democratic Republic of the | ... in equatorial river basin; cooler and drier in southern highlands; cooler and wetter in eastern highlands; north of Equator - wet season (April to October), dry season (December to February); south of Equator ... |
| north | Cote d'Ivoire | tropical along coast, semiarid in far north; three seasons - warm and dry (November to March), hot and dry (March to May), hot and wet (June to October) |
| north | European Union | cold temperate; potentially subarctic in the north to temperate; mild wet winters; hot dry summers in the south |
| North | Finland | cold temperate; potentially subarctic but comparatively mild because of moderating influence of the North Atlantic Current, Baltic Sea, and more than 60,000 lakes |
| north | France | ... and mild summers, but mild winters and hot summers along the Mediterranean; occasional strong, cold, dry, north-to-northwesterly wind known as mistral French Guiana: tropical; hot, humid; little seasonal temperature variation ... |
| north | Ghana | tropical; warm and comparatively dry along southeast coast; hot and humid in southwest; hot and dry in north |
| North | Iceland | temperate; moderated by North Atlantic Current; mild, windy winters; damp, cool summers |
| north | India | varies from tropical monsoon in south to temperate in north |
| North | Ireland | temperate maritime; modified by North Atlantic Current; mild winters, cool summers; consistently humid; overcast about half the time |
| north | Italy | predominantly Mediterranean; Alpine in far north; hot, dry in south |
| north | Japan | varies from tropical in south to cool temperate in north |
| north | Nepal | varies from cool summers and severe winters in north to subtropical summers and mild winters in south |
| north | Nigeria | varies; equatorial in south, tropical in center, arid in north |
| North | Norway | temperate along coast, modified by North Atlantic Current; colder interior with increased precipitation and colder summers; rainy year-round on west coast |
| North | Pacific Ocean | ... be much less pronounced in the eastern and western regions at the same latitude in the North Pacific Ocean; the western Pacific is monsoonal - a rainy season occurs during the summer months ... |
| north | Pakistan | mostly hot, dry desert; temperate in northwest; arctic in north |
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