It has a hot, humid climate, relieved to some extent by the south-east trade winds.
Southeast trade winds prevail from April to the end of November.
The coast has a warm, Mediterranean climate tempered on the eastern coast by southwest trade winds.
The trade winds give rise, in the region most exposed to their influence, to two westward-moving drifts - the equatorial currents, which are separated in parts of their course by currents moving in the opposite direction along the equatorial belt.
The island's trade winds keep the summer season from being unbearably hot.
