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Africa
North Africa has a Mediterranean climate along the coast (mild, wet winters and hot, dry summers) transitioning to true desert conditions inland across Algeria and Egypt, where daytime heat can be extreme and temperature swings between day and night are dramatic.
East Africa's climate is shaped less by four seasons than by two annual rainy periods (roughly March-May and October-December in Kenya and Tanzania) separated by drier stretches — elevation matters enormously here too, with highland areas considerably cooler than the savanna floor.
South-central and southern Africa follow a Southern Hemisphere calendar (summer December-February, winter June-August), with Malawi and Zambia's wet season roughly November to April and a long dry winter the rest of the year; South Africa's own climate varies by region, from Mediterranean in the southwest to subtropical along the eastern coast.
Mauritius and Seychelles are tropical year-round, warm and humid with a wetter, hotter period (roughly November to April, Mauritius's own cyclone season) and a cooler, drier one (May to October).