It has a hot, humid climate, relieved to some extent by the south-east trade winds.
The island's trade winds keep the summer season from being unbearably hot.
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.
