The city of São Luís experiences a tropical
monsoon climate with a short dry season (Koppen Am) from August to November. During this period when the
equatorial rainband associated with the highly seasonalized positioning of the
Intertropical Convergence Zone is not over the city, warm to hot temperatures
and abundant equatorial sunshine prevail. Conversely, the humid, rainy wet
season dominates the remaining majority of the year, with abundant cloud cover
prevalent and heavy rains falling from December to July, with the heaviest
rainfall and
