Subtropical climates are between tropical and temperate climates in their characteristics.

Subtropical climates are typically characterized by:

• Cool to moderate temperatures during the winter, and moderate to hot temperatures in the summer
• Various humidity levels
• Medium amounts of percipitation
• A range of cloud cover, some days resulting in diffuse lighting and other resulting in undiffuse highly directional lighting
• Medium amount of change in length of daylight hours in the different seasons