Antigua and Barbuda / Weather

Antigua is a relatively dry island. With its lower-lying terrain, it does not collect the huge rain clouds that the more mountainours volcanic islands see. That said, tropical rainstorms do pass and there is still an average 45 inches of rain each year. There is a short rainy season in June, but the main one is much later in the year, in November.

The temperature varies by just a few degrees across the year, usually between 85 and 95 degrees Fahrenheit from winter to summer. The island rarely gets too hot, except occasionally in summer, particularly if it is still for a few days when it can become humid. Generally though, there is a breeze to take the edge off the heat.

Antigua is in the hurricane belt and these massive storms do pass by from time to time in the late summer when the Atlantic Ocean, where they are generated and the sea becomes warm enough. The most likely time for a hurricane to hit is in the middle of September into late October, when many properties tend to have their annual closures. More likely to interrupt your holiday however, are the storms in the North Atlantic, from where a blanket of cloud will occasionally spin off a weather system and send cloud cover down to the Caribbean for a few days.