Nadi (Fiji Islands), instead, is in the Tropical savanna climate, which has monthly mean temperatures above 18 °C in every month of the year and typically a pronounced dry season, with the driest month having precipitation less than 60 mm. A tropical savanna climate tends to either see less rainfall than a tropical monsoon climate or have more pronounced dry seasons.
The architectural tradition of Fiji comes from the ancestors of Polynesian people, with a set of pottery of a tradition of stilt buildings over the water or on the shore near the coastline. Gradually these settlements shifted inland as the islands were colonized and today no stilt buildings can be found in the Fiji Islands. This can be explained by a development, in the course of which buildings were rather built on earthen platforms, rather than on stilts; in fact, the earthen platforms provide a high floor, similar to the stilt house, and keep the inhabitants safe from ground moisture.
1 - The buildings in the eastern islands of Viti Levu have rectangular ground plans, they do not have a middle post, while often two end posts were used or king posts on tie beams. The design was very similar to coastal buildings, and usually also referred to by the same name (vasemasema).