Fiji is an island nation located within the Pacific Ocean to the northeast of New Zealand, where it is neighboured by various other island nations including Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Tonga, the Samoan Islands, Wallis and Futuna and Tuvalu. It has a tropical marine climate with two main seasons, a hot and a cold one, where there is little variation in temperature between the two seasons. Tropical cyclones are the most serious natural hazard that Fiji experiences in terms of total damage and economic loss, with the island nation directly impacted by an average of 21 tropical cyclones during a decade or at least 1 - 2 tropical cyclones each season.