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:
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:
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