The US Virgin Islands in December

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December at The US Virgin Islands is 27°C by day and 25°C at night, with 2 rainy days and about 11 hours of sun a day. Busier than usual.

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The numbers

Daily high	27°C
Nightly low	25°C
Feels like, afternoon	28°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more	2 · 49 mm
Humidity	74%
Sunshine	10.6 h/day
Daylight	11.1 h/day
Crowds	62 / 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 Charlotte Amalie, on St Thomas: ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

December: busier than usual. Busiest in February and March; quietest in April and May.

Public holidays in December

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

The US Virgin Islands in pictures

Day view of harbor in the US Virgin Islands — i

Shocksingularity, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

What to pack

Summer clothes by day, highs around 27°C.
Sun protection: about 11 hours of sunshine a day.

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

Before you go

Cost of living	expensive — prices run about 89% of the United States' (World Bank, 2025)
Currency	United states dollar
Languages	English
Driving	On the left
Calling code	+1340
Travel advice	No advice against travel — UK Foreign Office, updated 2026-08-18
Health	UK Foreign Office health advice

Facts from Wikidata (CC0), the UK Foreign Office (Open Government Licence) and the World Bank, refreshed 2026-10-07. The advisory is written for British travellers; entry rules depend on your passport.

On arrival in The US Virgin Islands: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.

December elsewhere

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