# Season determination Talking about the season determination, we need to clarify that we are talking about a correct visual representation of the season. \ For example, you shouldn't see red foliage in autumn if located in a tropical area. Four Seasons takes into consideration various parameters: 1. Period 2. Emisphere 3. Temperature 4. Distance from the poles and average snow cover 5. Surrounding mean elevation ![](/files/-Lvb6thNiMoG3XlABoPo) What you see is obviously a simplification and could not meet your expectations. In those cases, you can intervene with the manual season option. To calculate the temperature, Four Seasons divides a surrounding territory of about 100 km radius in a grid, and then extract the mean elevation of these mesh points. After that, the sea level temperature is scaled down to this elevation. This should eliminate peaks values which would lead to weird results. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://marangonico.gitbook.io/four-seasons/using-four-seasons/season-determination.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.