According to Lifeguin’s travel calendar, the Bahamas is good to visit all year. Plan 7–10 days.
Best months for the Bahamas
- JanuaryBest
- FebruaryBest
- MarchBest
- AprilBest
- MayBest
- JuneBest
- JulyBest
- AugustBest
- SeptemberBest
- OctoberBest
- NovemberBest
- DecemberBest
- Best months
- All year
- How long to stay
- 7–10 days
- Continent
- North & Central America
What the Bahamas is best for
Famous for turquoise water, island hopping in the Exumas, coral reefs, and pink sand beaches.
- Prices
- €€€ · more expensive than in Slovakia
Weather in the Bahamas by month
Monthly averages around Nassau; the mountains and other regions can differ a lot.
| Month | Average temperature | Rain |
|---|---|---|
| January best | about 23 °C | some rain (36 mm) |
| February best | about 23 °C | some rain (36 mm) |
| March best | about 23 °C | some rain (39 mm) |
| April best | about 25 °C | some rain (60 mm) |
| May best | about 26 °C | a lot of rain (123 mm) |
| June best | about 28 °C | a lot of rain (162 mm) |
| July best | about 29 °C | a lot of rain (126 mm) |
| August best | about 29 °C | a lot of rain (150 mm) |
| September best | about 29 °C | a lot of rain (165 mm) |
| October best | about 28 °C | a lot of rain (117 mm) |
| November best | about 25 °C | some rain (66 mm) |
| December best | about 24 °C | some rain (39 mm) |
Sources: what a place is best for — our own travel guides and, for places we have not written about yet, research done with the help of AI (Google Gemini); weather — NASA POWER climate averages; prices — World Bank price levels (CC BY 4.0).
Good to know about the Bahamas
- Capital
- Nassau
- Language
- English
- Currency
- Bahamian Dollar (BSD)
- Time
- UTC−5, UTC−4 in summer
- Plugs
- Type A, B · 120 V
- Driving
- On the left
- Calling code
- +1 242
Sources: Wikidata, Unicode CLDR and the IANA time zone database.
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