Ideal weather days in Kingston
The best time to visit Kingston for warm, dry weather is December to March, with 21 to 25 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Kingston's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in December to March.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Kingston, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too hot145
- Too windy87
- Too wet44
- Too cold0
A day can fail more than one test.
Warm and dry, beach and mild days
With the Warm & dry preset (a high of 18–33 °C, no more than 1 mm of rain, wind under 20 km/h), Kingston averaged 151 days a year in 2023–2025. Every number here is counted from real measured days in Jamaica, not from climate averages.
Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in March to May and July to October (up to 23 a month, 228 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are rare: no month averaged more than 0.
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too hot (over 33 °C): 145 a year, mostly in July to October. Another 87 are windy (mean wind over 20 km/h), mostly in June and July. A day can fail more than one test.
Kingston weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 32 °C 89 °F | 1 | 6 | 13 | 22 of 31 |
| February | 32 °C 89 °F | 2 | 5 | 8 | 22 of 28 |
| March | 32 °C 89 °F | 2 | 7 | 10 | 21 of 31 |
| April | 33 °C 91 °F | 2 | 6 | 10 | 18 of 30 |
| May | 33 °C 91 °F | 4 | 10 | 9 | 14 of 31 |
| June | 33 °C 91 °F | 7 | 20 | 11 | 4 of 30 |
| July | 34 °C 93 °F | 3 | 16 | 14 | 2 of 31 |
| August | 34 °C 93 °F | 5 | 6 | 7 | 1 of 31 |
| September | 34 °C 93 °F | 6 | 4 | 7 | 2 of 30 |
| October | 34 °C 92 °F | 8 | 2 | 6 | 5 of 31 |
| November | 33 °C 91 °F | 7 | 4 | 4 | 14 of 30 |
| December | 32 °C 90 °F | 3 | 3 | 7 | 25 of 31 |
| Year | 48 | 88 | 104 | 151 of 365 |
Typical high is the median daily maximum. A rain day has 1 mm or more; a windy day a mean wind above 20 km/h; a clear day a daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average (9:00–17:00). Days are averaged over 2023–2025 and scaled to the length of each month.
Year by year
- 2023 141 warm, dry days
- 2024 152 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Kingston for good weather?
The best time to visit Kingston for warm, dry weather is December to March, with 21 to 25 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in March to May and July to October (up to 23 a month, 228 a year). Counted from measured days at Norman Manley International station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Kingston?
On average 48 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was October (8 rain days), the driest January (1).
How many sunny days does Kingston get a year?
About 104 days a year had mostly clear skies (daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average, 9:00–17:00), most of them in July (14).
How warm does Kingston get?
The median daily high ranged from 32 °C (89 °F) in January to 34 °C (93 °F) in July.
Nearby
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- Orlando1260 km, United States203 days
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Source: Norman Manley International weather station (78397099999), 6 km from the centre of Kingston, 3 m above sea level. Daily records from NOAA's Global Surface Summary of the Day, 2023–2025; 87% of days have a complete record. A single station may not represent every part of a city, and three years is a short record.