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In the dry summer season the moisture-laden air - the southwest monsoon - is drawn to wards the land areas from the Indian Ocean. This flow is reversed during the winter, and the northeast monsoon sends back dry air. The southwest monsoon winds cause the rainy season from mid-May to mid-September or to early October, and the northeast monsoon flow of dry and cool air streams that bring in a warm and dry climate during the lasts from early November to March.

The climate of Cambodia, especially in the southern region has a dry season that lasts for about two months. The northern region however has a four month dry season.

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The climate of Cambodia in the Tonle Sap Basin tends to vacillate around the annual mean temperature of twenty five degree Celsius. Maximum temperatures in Cambodia are known to hit 32 degrees pretty frequently and often, just before the onset of the monsoons, temperatures go as high as 38 degree Celsius.

The climate in Cambodia is kinder to those who cannot tolerate extreme temperatures. Minimum temperatures rarely fall below 10°C. January is the coldest month, and April is the warmest. Typhoons - tropical cyclones - that often devastate coastal Vietnam rarely cause damage in Cambodia.

The average annual temperature varies from +25 C to +40 C. In the year two seasons, dry and rainy. The rainy season begins in May-June and lasts until September. The most rainy months of July, August, September.

The hottest months are March, April, May. In December, January, February, early March - the most neutral weather, no rain, the temperature of +30 C, +35 C.

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More than half of the country occupied by tropical forests in the rest of the country dominated by savannah vegetation.

There has been a reduction in forested areas, which in the middle of 1960 took more than 75% of the country. This is a serious problem in Cambodia. 

The fauna Kambodzhi.Ne matter what happens in the forests of Cambodia have preserved wild elephants, rhinos, leopards, tigers, bulls and bears cuprite.