Assuming the weather is the same in a place near the equator and far from the equator, the temperature at the place closer to the equator will generally be warmer.
It is hot because where the equator is, is a very how place.
Poles
There are snow-capped mountains near the equator.
The savannah
near the equator places like Ecuador
The Equator, and anything that is closest to it, would have a warmer climate than the north pole.
indonesia, Brizal, Africia
Somewhere near the equator.
Amazon
Yes Panama is near the equator.
The countries near the equator are hotter the the countries farther from the equator