Weekly note
Saint Kitts and Nevis
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Photo by Martin Falbisoner, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The numbers

Daily high30°C
Nightly low26°C
Feels like, afternoon34°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more4 · 96 mm
Humidity77%
Sunshine11.4 h/day
Daylight12.7 h/day
Beach and sea27 of 31 days dry and 23–35 °C; sea 29 °C, warm good
Crowds45 / 100, higher is quieter

Ten-year averages for this calendar month. A rainy day is one with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts it. The model these figures come from drizzles more than a rain gauge, the more so the warmer the month, so its days count from 2 mm, rising to 5 mm in the hottest.

Weather read at Basseterre: ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

August: busy. Busiest in January and August; quietest in April and May.

Public holidays in August

Holidays crowd a place out and push fares up around them; they count toward the crowd score above.

Saint Kitts and Nevis in pictures

What to pack

  • Summer clothes by day, highs around 30°C.
  • Sun protection: about 11 hours of sunshine a day.
  • Humidity averages 77%; breathable fabrics dry faster.

Each line is a threshold over the ten-year figures above, not advice from anywhere else.

Before you go

Cost of livingmoderate — prices run about 69% of the United States' (World Bank, 2025)
CurrencyEastern caribbean dollar
LanguagesEnglish
PlugsType A and B and G, 230 V
DrivingOn the left
Calling code+1869
Travel advice No advice against travel — UK Foreign Office, updated 2026-01-05
HealthUK Foreign Office health advice

Facts from Wikidata (CC0), the UK Foreign Office (Open Government Licence) and the World Bank, refreshed 2026-10-08. The advisory is written for British travellers; entry rules depend on your passport.

On arrival in Saint Kitts and Nevis: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.

August elsewhere

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