Climate averages 1991–2020

Weather in Haiti.

ClimaNote covers 18 cities in Haiti, starting with Port-au-Prince, Carrefour and Pétionville. Open a city for charts and a table of all 12 months, or open a month for a side-by-side comparison of cities in the atlas.

Across these cities the yearly average high ranges from 27.6°C in Cap-Haïtien to 32.0°C in Dessalines, and yearly rainfall from 332 mm in Arcahaie to 1,613 mm in Port-au-Prince (tied with Pétionville, Cité Soleil and Croix-des-Bouquets). The hottest city-month is July in Dessalines, with an average high of 34.0°C, and the coolest is January in Cap-Haïtien, at 25.9°C (tied with February in Cap-Haïtien). By single month, the most rain falls in May in Port-au-Prince, with 240 mm (tied with May in Pétionville, May in Cité Soleil and May in Croix-des-Bouquets), and the least in January in Arcahaie, with 7.4 mm.

July is the warmest month in 14 cities, August in 1 and September in 1 (in 2 other cities two or more months tie); January is the coolest in 6 cities and December in 4 (in 8 other cities two or more months tie). May is the wettest month in 10 cities, October in 5, September in 2 and November in 1; January is the driest in 11 cities, February in 4 and July in 2 (in 1 other city two or more months tie). None of these cities has a month with an average high below 2.0°C, a month with under 1 mm of rain or a month with more than 300 mm of rain.

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Cities in Haiti

Yearly averages
Yearly climate averages for cities in Haiti
CityAverage highAverage lowRain mm/year
Port-au-Prince31°C23°C1,613
Carrefour30°C23°C1,296
Pétionville29°C21°C1,613
Port-de-Paix30°C24°C920
Saint-Marc31°C24°C603
Cité Soleil32°C24°C1,613
Croix-des-Bouquets31°C24°C1,613
Dessalines32°C23°C1,011
Jacmel29°C24°C990
Cap-Haïtien28°C24°C1,176
Léogâne30°C24°C948
Arcahaie30°C23°C332
Les Cayes30°C24°C796
Tigwav31°C25°C948
Jérémie29°C25°C609
Saint-Michel de l'Atalaye29°C20°C1,240
Miragoâne31°C25°C1,013
Gonaïves30°C23°C431

Yearly average of the 12 monthly values for 1991–2020. Open a city for every month.