Singapore experiences temperate weather year-round. It is a country that stands at one and a half degrees or eighty five miles north of the equator, thus contributing to the country’s humid conditions and high temperatures year-round with “a mean daily relative humidity of eighty three point nine percent, and mean annual rainfall of 232.9 cm” (Lam-Phua et al., 2019). Singapore’s close proximity to the equator establishes it as a tropical country. The country is found in the Malay Peninsula, where it is separated from Malaysia at the Straits of Johor and Indonesia by the Riau Island Province (Simangunsong & Hutasoit, 2023). Its close proximity to these two countries means that the three share similar environmental conditions.
The country’s defining weather pattern is that of two separate monsoon seasons that are divided by inter-monsoonal points. The first monsoon season is found in the Northeast between December and March and brings about heavy rain whereas the second monsoon season is found in the Southwest part of the country from June to September (Li et al., 2019). The inter-monsoonal points are found from April to May and October through November (Hassim & Timbal, 2019). Singapore lacks a great variation in temperature throughout the year; with an average yearly temperature of 27.8°C or 82°F (Chafer et al., 2022). With this evidence, one can conclude that Singapore experiences consistent and stable weather throughout the year.
