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The climate of Grande-Terre (Guadeloupe)
Grande-Terre is, as far as size is concerned, the second island of the French overseas department of Guadeloupe, which is only separated from the island of Basse-Terre by a salt water river. Grande-Terre lies in the Caribbean Sea. In the south-west lies the capital of the island , Pointe-à-Pitre, which at the same time is the largest town in the island. Point-à-Pitre has the most important sea-port of the country and at the same time the international airport is situated next to this town. Totally a little less than 200,000 inhabitants live in this island. Nowadays tourism is the most important source of income in the island Mant tourists yearly travel to Grande-Terre. The islands are particularly popular with walkers and divers.
Grande-Terre has a tropical climate with here and there a micro-climate where the average amount of precipitation is somewhat smaller than in the rest of the island. These micro-climates in the island are easily to be recognized because of the other vegetation that occurs there. The island has a wetter and a drier period. The drier period for the greater part falls together with the first months of the year. In the second half of the year it is somewhat wetter here and because of that the average air humidity in this period is a lot higher. Then tropical storms and hurricanes can occur here. The temperatures by day are here around 30 degrees centigrade throughout the year and the temperatures by night are only a few degrees lower.

Climate information
The data below is based on registered weather data and applies to Grande-Terre:

	average  maximum temperature (°C)	average minimum temperature (°C)	average hours of sunshine per day	average days with precipitation per month	average mm precipitation per month	average sea temperature (°C)
January	28	24	7	16		27
February	28	24	7	11		26
March	28	25	8	11		26
April	29	26	8	12		27
May	30	27	8	14		27
June	31	27	8	15		28
July	31	27	8	16		28
August	31	27	8	17		28
September	31	27	7	18		29
October	30	27	7	19		29
November	29	26	7	18		28
December	28	25	7	18		27
= 0-5 mm ● = 6-30 mm ● = 31-60 mm ● = 61-100 mm ● = 101-200 mm ● = over 200 mm = 0-0.2 inches ● = 0.2-1.2 inches ● = 1.2-2.4 inches ● = 2.5-4 inches ● = 4.1-8 inches ● = over 8 inches

More climate information
Climate figures are very useful but don’t present a general impression of the climate and the eventual weather circumstances within a certain period. The figures don’t always reflect the chance of wintry weather, extreme heat or hurricanes. That is why we offer useful extra climate information for each month of the year:

	chance of (very) hot weather	chance of (very) cool weather	chance of long-term precipitation	chance of hurricanes (cyclones)	chance of sunny days	UV-index
January
February
March
April
May
June
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August
September
October
November
December
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