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Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand 2009
‘Nakhon Si Thammarat Municipality (Thai: เทศบาลนครนครศรีธรรมราช, pronounced [ná(ʔ).kʰɔ̄ːn sǐː tʰām.mā.râːt]; from Pali Nagara Sri Dhammaraja) is a municipality (thesaban nakhon) in Southern Thailand, capital of the City of Nakhon Si Thammarat and the Nakhon Si Thammarat District. Nakhon Si Thammarat has a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen climate classification Af). The city is more subject to the Intertropical Convergence Zone than the trade winds but experiences a few cyclones so is not purely equatorial but subequatorial. Temperatures remain very warm to hot throughout the year. While some rain falls in all months, it is drier in February and March when about 90 millimetres (3.5 in) of rain falls in each month, and wetter in October to December when very heavy rain may fall; November sees 631 millimetres (24.8 in) of rain on average each year.’ Bron: Wikipedia.