Sundial Vacation Villas on Turks and Caicos in the Caribbean


	Island Weather

Temperature
The waters of the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea are warm at all times of the year. The area experiences no great extremes of temperature. Winters are warm and sunny and summers are hot, but without excessively high temperatures so that heat stress is rarely felt. This equability of temperature is a consequence of the strong influence of the warm ocean waters. Daily sunshine hours average from seven to nine, with more hours in the driest months.

Mth	Temperature F				Temperature C				Precipitation
	Avg Daily		High Low		Avg Daily		High Low		Avg Mthly		Avg Days
	max	min	max	min	max	min	max	min	inch	mm	+ .01 in
Jan	81	70	86	60	27	21	30	16	2.2	56	13
Feb	81	70	88	61	27	21	31	16	1.4	36	8
Mar	82	71	90	63	28	22	32	17	1.1	28	8
Apr	84	73	91	67	29	23	33	19	1.5	36	6
May	86	75	93	66	30	24	34	19	2.6	66	8
Jun	87	77	96	77	31	25	36	20	1.6	41	9
Jul	88	77	96	68	31	25	33	21	1.7	43	10
Aug	89	78	94	71	32	26	34	22	2.0	51	12
Sep	88	77	95	66	31	25	35	19	3.2	81	11
Oct	87	76	93	70	31	24	34	21	4.0	102	13
Nov	84	73	93	70	29	23	33	18	4.5	114	14
Dec	82	71	89	66	28	22	32	19	2.7	69	13

Precipitation
Even during the wettest months, it should not be thought that it rains a lot. Clouds may build up in the evening giving short thunder showers. However, prolonged spells of rain are rare.

Storms
The worst types of weather that may occur are tropical storms or hurricanes. They occur between June and November and are most common in the months of August and September. During the worst of these storms, between 10 and 20 inches of rain may fall over a period of two or three days and violent winds may cause damage. The storms develop east of the Caribbean and move westward before curving north and east, close to the North American mainland. The favorable location of the Turks and Caicos islands often spares it from these storms. A map of all the 1995 storm paths shows how the Turks and Caicos islands are usually missed.

Simply stated, the Turks and Caicos islands are a tropical paradise.

(Seasonal weather statistics were derived from The World Weather Guide.)