Hanoi is in the zone of tropical monsoons, yet there occurs a categorically distinct succession of four consecutive seasons: spring, warm and rainy-light, and blessed with pleasant flowers and plants; summer as hot and rainy, cool breezes from afternoons to evenings; autumn is cool and dry, imbibed with the delights of fruits and vegetables-some typhoons and floods sleep around on the other side; winter is comparatively cold, with temperature averaging at 14 degrees Celsius to 18 degrees, sometimes dipping below 10 degrees, with biting cold blowing from the northeast. The average annual rainfall in Hanoi is 1676 millimeters, with June having the average temperature of 28.8 and January of 16.5. The lowest temperature recorded is 2.7, whereas the highest is 42.8. The humidity is moderate; sometimes it is below 80%.