Bohol has, like the rest of the Philippines, a tropical climate. The average temperature is high and the humidity is also high. The dry and the wet seasons are very similar. The province is in the path of typhoons; it can be affected by them but is somewhat protected by the mountains of surrounding islands, as Leyte, Samar and Mindanao. The northeast monsoon ("Amihan") is from November to April and the average temperatures are slightly lower than the temperatures during the southwest monsoon ("Habagat"), from August to October.