Lucaya climate by month
What the weather is like
Lucaya has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw): .
The warmest month is August, when afternoons average 29° and nights 27°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 22° and lows of 20°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 6°, a small seasonal swing typical of places tempered by the sea.
About 1,229 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. July is the wettest month (131 mm, 24 wet days) and February the driest (73 mm, 7 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 25% in April to 41% in September.
The sea reaches about 30° in August. Sea temperatures lag the air by a month or two, so late summer is usually warmer for swimming than early summer.
Compared with Nassau, the capital, Lucaya is 4.3° cooler on a August afternoon and receives less precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 29° · August
- Coldest nights
- 20° · January
- Wettest month
- July
- Driest month
- February
- Clearest skies
- April · 25% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 30° · August
- Longest day
- 13 h 48 min
- Shortest day
- 10 h 29 min
Twelve months at a glance
Temperature and precipitation
Daily high/low range bars, monthly precipitation columns, sea temperature lineTemperature curve
Average high, low and seaDaylight
Hours between sunrise and sunset on the 15th of each monthClimate normals month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average high | 22° | 23° | 23° | 24° | 26° | 27° | 28° | 29° | 28° | 27° | 25° | 23° |
| Average low | 20° | 21° | 21° | 22° | 24° | 26° | 27° | 27° | 26° | 25° | 23° | 22° |
| Precipitation | 55 mm | 73 mm | 84 mm | 76 mm | 78 mm | 160 mm | 131 mm | 150 mm | 199 mm | 110 mm | 63 mm | 50 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 10.2 | 6.7 | 7.3 | 10.2 | 16 | 23 | 24.2 | 23.2 | 23.8 | 17.8 | 12.2 | 12.2 |
| Cloud cover | 33% | 31% | 29% | 25% | 26% | 40% | 35% | 37% | 41% | 31% | 31% | 33% |
| Sea temperature | 24° | 23° | 24° | 25° | 27° | 28° | 29° | 30° | 29° | 28° | 26° | 25° |
| Daylight | 10h 39 | 11h 16 | 11h 59 | 12h 47 | 13h 27 | 13h 48 | 13h 39 | 13h 05 | 12h 19 | 11h 33 | 10h 51 | 10h 29 |
| Month score | 75 | 84 | 83 | 76 | 64 | 53 | 51 | 49 | 50 | 60 | 71 | 70 |