The climate in Curacao

Climate zone: tropics

High humidity in Curacao and high temperatures are causing a pleasant weather at times, but also and partly tropical hot and humid. It is warm to hot all year round and invites to bathe at average water temperatures of 27 degrees. Dued to the lesser rain the best time for traveling is from March to August. Most precipitation decrease from October to January.

› Duration of daylight and sunshine in Curacao

Long-term development of temperatures from 1981 - 2020

In contrast to single record values, a long-term development cannot simply be brought about by all weather stations in the country. Both the number and the locations are constantly changing. A simply calculated average value would give a falsified result. If several measuring stations in particularly cold mountain or coastal regions are added in one year, the average would already decrease as a result of this alone. If a station fails during the summer or winter months, it does not provide any values and falsifies the average again. The subsequent long-term development was therefore reduced to only 1 measuring points in order to have actually comparable data over as long a period as possible.

In the years 1981 to 2020 there were only these 1 weather stations in the whole country, which reported continuous temperature values (Hato Intern). From these weather reports we have created a long-term development that shows the monthly average temperatures. The hottest month in this entire period was September 1998 with 30.7 °C. March 2011 was the coldest month with an average temperature of 25.5 °C.

The average annual temperature was about 27.7 °C in the years after 1981 and about 28.2 °C in the last years before 2020. It has therefore increased only slightly by about 0.4 °C over the past 40 years. This trend only applies to the selected 1 weather stations in Curacao. A considerably more comprehensive evaluation of the global warming has been provided separately.



Data basis: German Weather Service, individual values averaged and supplemented by own elements.