The difference between Climate and Weather

Weather describes the state of the atmosphere locally, minute by minute.

Climate describes the average weather over a period of at least three decades. This includes average monthly statistics about things such as:

• temperature;
• number of days over 35°C;
• number of frosts;
• rainfall;
• number of rain-days;
• number of days with more than 30 mm of rain;
• humidity;
• evaporation, etc.

Climate tells us what the weather is usually like.