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Brazil
Brazil's enormous size gives it several distinct climate zones. The Amazon region is equatorial -- hot and humid year-round with no real dry season.
Most of the coast has a tropical climate with a hot, humid summer, while the south has a more temperate, four-season climate with genuinely cool winters.
The Pantanal follows a wet season (November-March), when the wetlands flood, and a dry season (April-October), when wildlife-viewing becomes dramatically easier -- exactly opposite the coastal beach season's own peak.