Due to the Earth’s tilt and position around the Sun, things get very light and warm in summer for us in UK, and then winter becomes very cold and dark. But if you are on the equator, surely the amount of light you get won’t change much?
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It is weird that no-one mentions the actual fact that on the equator, at the time when people near the poles experience their equinox, the path of the sun would go directly overhead each day, and at the time people in the poles would experience their summer and winter, the path of the sun would pass a few degrees north or south of overhead. This means, as far as the amount of daily sunshine, there would be two seasons with a bit more sunshine, and two seasons with a bit less. And two times a year, 182.5 days apart, when the sun passes directly overhead.
I’ve never known anyone who lives there, from the Reddit comments here it appears that those two ‘warm’ seasons aren’t significantly warmer than the others, and maybe things like currents in the sea or streams of wind have a bigger effect than the precise angle of the sun….
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