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Pakistan has a varity of climates with the south being hot and arid and the north near the Himilayas being more cooler, wet and tempreate. This variation leads to different weather at differennt parts of the country as it is common for snow to fall in the winter in the north but to have milder winters in the south. The country have four seasons over the year; the dry cool winter and hot springs and comming and retreating monsoon period from summer to fall. The monsoon period starts from around June and ends around Novermber and involvers a large amount of rain. The seasons and the intensity of the monsoons rains vary for region to region.

The climate in the capital city of Islamabad varies from an average daily low of 2 °C in January to an average daily high of 38 °C in June. Half of the annual rainfall occurs in July and August, averaging about 255 millimeters in each of those two months. The remainder of the year has significantly less rain, amounting to about fifty millimeters per month. Hailstorms are common in the spring.

Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, which is also the country's industrial center, is more humid than Islamabad but gets less rain. Only July and August average more than twenty-five millimeters of rain in the Karachi area; the remaining months are exceedingly dry. The temperature is also more uniform in Karachi than in Islamabad, ranging from an average daily low of 13 °C during winter evenings to an average daily high of 34 °C on summer days. Although the summer temperatures do not get as high as those in Punjab, the high humidity causes the residents a great deal of discomfort. In Islamabad, there are cold winds from the north of Pakistan.

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