The Tropic of Cancer divides India into two equal halves. The southern half is completely in the Torrid Zone while the northern Half is completely in the Temperate Zone. Yet, the climate of places in both the northern and southern region is not very different from each other on account of the Himalayas and the monsoons. It is for this reason that India is sometimes said to have a ‘sub-tropical’ kind of climate which means that the typical tropical kind of climate has been modified by the monsoons.