Climate
The Cayman Islands have a tropical marine climate, with a wet season of warm, rainy summers (May to October) and a dry season of relatively cool winters (November to April). Terrain is mostly a low-lying limestone base surrounded by coral reefs.
A major natural hazard is the tropical cyclones that form during the Atlantic hurricane season from July to November.
| Climate data for George Town - capital of Cayman Islands | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Average high °C (°F) | 26 (79) |
26 (79) |
27 (81) |
28 (82) |
29 (84) |
30 (86) |
31 (88) |
30 (86) |
30 (86) |
29 (84) |
28 (82) |
27 (81) |
28 (82) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 25 (77) |
25 (77) |
26 (79) |
27 (81) |
27 (81) |
28 (82) |
29 (84) |
28 (82) |
28 (82) |
27 (81) |
27 (81) |
25 (77) |
27 (81) |
| Average low °C (°F) | 23 (73) |
22 (72) |
23 (73) |
25 (77) |
26 (79) |
27 (81) |
28 (82) |
27 (81) |
26 (79) |
26 (79) |
25 (77) |
23 (73) |
25 (77) |
| Avg. precipitation days | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 80 |
| Source: Weatherbase | |||||||||||||
Read more about this topic: Geography Of The Cayman Islands
Famous quotes containing the word climate:
“Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they hear, their table-talk, gossip, controversies, historical sense and scientific training, the values they appreciate, the quality of life they admire. All communities have a culture. It is the climate of their civilization.”
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)
“Nobody is so constituted as to be able to live everywhere and anywhere; and he who has great duties to perform, which lay claim to all his strength, has, in this respect, a very limited choice. The influence of climate upon the bodily functions ... extends so far, that a blunder in the choice of locality and climate is able not only to alienate a man from his actual duty, but also to withhold it from him altogether, so that he never even comes face to face with it.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)