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Best time to visit
Balaclava.

February leads for comfortable weather in Balaclava: typically 30.3°C by day, 21.6°C at night, with 43 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortFebruary

Typical high30.3°C

Typical low21.6°C

Rain in February43 mm

Comfort

February

February · March · January

65climate match

Beach

February

February · March · January

91climate match

Outdoors

February

February · March · January

45climate match

The weakest month is October, scoring 32 against February’s 65 — days average 32.5°C, 9° above the 24°C the score treats as ideal.

Month by month

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

The bars show the comfort score. Day and night temperatures come from daily observed highs and lows; rain is the historical monthly estimate.

Jan

5630.1° / 21.8°

Feb

6530.3° / 21.6°

Mar

5930.7° / 22.1°

Apr

5131.6° / 23°

May

3432.2° / 23.7°

Jun

4333.3° / 24.2°

Jul

4533.6° / 24.5°

Aug

3633.7° / 24.6°

Sep

3333.3° / 24.4°

Oct

3232.5° / 24.1°

Nov

4031.5° / 23.6°

Dec

5130.6° / 22.6°

Monthly climate evidence for Balaclava — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 33 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	30.1°C	21.8°C	89 mm	7.3	27.3°C	11 h 09	56	Good coverage
February	30.3°C	21.6°C	43 mm	4.6	27.1°C	11 h 31	65	Good coverage
March	30.7°C	22.1°C	56 mm	6.3	27.2°C	11 h 59	59	Good coverage
April	31.6°C	23°C	84 mm	5.4	27.9°C	12 h 32	51	Good coverage
May	32.2°C	23.7°C	157 mm	9.5	28.3°C	12 h 59	34	Good coverage
June	33.3°C	24.2°C	78 mm	7.1	28.5°C	13 h 13	43	Good coverage
July	33.6°C	24.5°C	53 mm	7	28.8°C	13 h 07	45	Good coverage
August	33.7°C	24.6°C	108 mm	8.2	29.2°C	12 h 44	36	Good coverage
September	33.3°C	24.4°C	126 mm	10.2	29.5°C	12 h 13	33	Good coverage
October	32.5°C	24.1°C	147 mm	11.8	29.3°C	11 h 42	32	Good coverage
November	31.5°C	23.6°C	133 mm	9.7	28.8°C	11 h 15	40	Good coverage
December	30.6°C	22.6°C	100 mm	7.9	28.1°C	11 h 03	51	Good coverage

What has changed

Balaclava runs +2.0°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Each bar compares the 2011–2025 daytime average for that month against the same month in 1961–1990, measured at the same station. Months where the older record is too thin to compare are left blank.

Jan

+2.1

Feb

+2.0

Mar

+1.9

Apr

+2.1

May

+1.9

Jun

+1.9

Jul

+2.0

Aug

+2.1

Sep

+2.3

Oct

+2.2

Nov

+1.7

Dec

+2.0

February daytime highs, 2012–2025. Last recorded: 31.5°C.

Records at MONTEGO BAY/SANGSTE, 1973–2025
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	33.8°C16 Jan 1995	16.0°C28 Jan 1981	291 mm2 Jan 1980	301 mm2003 · driest 1 mm in 1985	51
February	34.2°C17 Feb 1998	16.0°C26 Feb 1981	83 mm12 Feb 2016	169 mm2016 · driest 0 mm in 1982	51
March	35.0°C4 Mar 1973	17.0°C10 Mar 1976	297 mm24 Mar 1979	297 mm1979 · driest 0 mm in 1973	51
April	35.6°C29 Apr 1997	18.5°C19 Apr 1983	333 mm28 Apr 1979	356 mm1979 · driest 0 mm in 2010	51
May	36.7°C28 May 2016	18.0°C21 May 1977	116 mm31 May 2007	344 mm2007 · driest 0 mm in 1973	52
June	36.4°C6 Jun 2000	20.4°C14 Jun 1999	307 mm21 Jun 1981	315 mm1981 · driest 1 mm in 1984	51
July	38.8°C30 Jul 1994	18.6°C6 Jul 1994	258 mm30 Jul 1982	258 mm1993 · driest 0 mm in 1983	51
August	37.4°C29 Aug 2001	17.0°C26 Aug 1976	178 mm29 Aug 2003	314 mm2003 · driest 1 mm in 2009	51
September	36.4°C2 Sep 2016	19.7°C5 Sep 1983	303 mm29 Sep 1978	362 mm1982 · driest 2 mm in 1973	50
October	37.0°C1 Oct 2019	18.2°C20 Oct 1984	292 mm11 Oct 1979	480 mm2005 · driest 3 mm in 1981	50
November	34.6°C12 Nov 1997	19.0°C25 Nov 1979	224 mm13 Nov 1991	308 mm2017 · driest 0 mm in 1984	50
December	34.0°C3 Dec 2015	17.0°C15 Dec 1973	485 mm29 Dec 1980	507 mm1980 · driest 0 mm in 1983	48

Typical days per month at MONTEGO BAY/SANGSTE, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	28	16	1
February	27	18	<1
March	29	23	<1
April	27	26	2
May	28	27	3
June	26	26	2
July	27	27	1
August	27	27	2
September	26	26	2
October	28	28	3
November	27	25	3
December	28	22	1

How often, not how much — every day in MONTEGO BAY/SANGSTE’s record sorted by what it was actually like, rather than averaged
Month	Warm & dry days	Wet days	Washouts	Week with 3+ wet days	Daytime mean has ranged
January	79%	22%	6%	25%	28.4–31.0°C
February	82%	17%	5%	16%	28.6–31.2°C
March	83%	17%	4%	20%	29.1–31.7°C
April	81%	18%	7%	17%	29.9–32.3°C
May	72%	28%	12%	45%	30.7–33.2°C
June	74%	26%	10%	27%	31.4–33.8°C
July	79%	22%	6%	20%	31.8–34.3°C
August	71%	29%	10%	37%	31.9–34.3°C
September	66%	35%	13%	52%	31.4–33.8°C
October	64%	37%	14%	49%	30.7–33.3°C
November	69%	31%	12%	47%	29.9–32.6°C
December	74%	26%	6%	35%	28.7–31.4°C

A warm and dry day reaches 20°C with under 1 mm of rain; a wet day gets 1 mm or more; a washout gets 10 mm or more. The week column is the share of seven-day stretches in that month, across the station’s whole daily record, that contained three or more wet days — the odds a week-long trip is rained on repeatedly, counted rather than modelled. The last column is the 10th to 90th percentile of that month’s daytime average across individual years: a narrow band means the average is what you will get, a wide one means the average is a midpoint between years that felt quite different.

1975Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 41-year average. Warmest: 2024. Coolest: 1985.2024

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 3491501
NOAA station: JM000078388 · MONTEGO BAY/SANGSTE
Station distance: 46.5 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 17 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 18.17°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 33 km from the place centre. A sheltered bay can run warmer than the open sea it is measured from.
Important limit: Historical climate is not a forecast. Nearby stations can miss mountains, coasts, and local microclimates.

These places read the same station, so their numbers are identical — distance from MONTEGO BAY/SANGSTE is what differs

Montego Bay→Barrett Town→Savanna-la-Mar→Grange Hill→Barbican→Falmouth→

Or put two places side by side: Balaclava vs Montego Bay

Best time to visitBalaclava.

February

February

February

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Balaclava runs +2.0°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Balaclava.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Balaclava runs +2.0°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.