Dessalines climate

Name: Dessalines
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Dessalines is warmest in July, with average highs of 34 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 21 °C. May is the wettest month (167 mm) and January the driest (9.8 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Dessalines averages 966 mm of rain and 365 days above 25 °C.

Haiti · population 181,903 · 1991–2020 normals

Temperature below 0 °C to above 30 °C Rain band height is that month’s share of the wettest month

Warmest month July 34 °C
Coldest month January 21 °C
Driest month January 10 mm
Wettest month May 167 mm
Least cloud February 31 % cloud
Hottest on record August 40 °C
Coldest on record January 14 °C

What to expectDessalines through the year

Dessalines has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 31 °C in January to 34 °C in July, a swing of 3.7 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 365 days a year reach 25 °C, 323 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 40 °C, in August.

Rain is strongly seasonal. May averages 167 mm against 10 mm in January — 17 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	30.9 °C	10 mm	33 %
February	31.6 °C	12 mm	31 %
March	31.9 °C	24 mm	33 %
April	32.3 °C	65 mm	39 %
May	32.3 °C	167 mm	57 %
June	33.4 °C	133 mm	61 %
July	34.3 °C	99 mm	53 %
August	34.0 °C	118 mm	60 %
September	32.8 °C	148 mm	63 %
October	31.8 °C	128 mm	60 %
November	31.0 °C	51 mm	48 %
December	31.0 °C	13 mm	37 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	30.9 °C	20.5 °C	25.0 °C	35.7 °C	13.8 °C	31	23
February	31.6 °C	20.7 °C	25.4 °C	36.6 °C	14.8 °C	28	24
March	31.9 °C	21.2 °C	25.9 °C	36.6 °C	15.9 °C	31	27
April	32.3 °C	22.4 °C	26.7 °C	38.0 °C	17.6 °C	30	28
May	32.3 °C	23.5 °C	27.2 °C	38.2 °C	17.9 °C	31	29
June	33.4 °C	24.3 °C	28.3 °C	38.6 °C	21.5 °C	30	30
July	34.3 °C	24.5 °C	28.8 °C	39.3 °C	21.1 °C	31	31
August	34.0 °C	24.7 °C	28.7 °C	39.9 °C	22.3 °C	31	31
September	32.8 °C	24.1 °C	27.8 °C	38.4 °C	21.5 °C	30	29
October	31.8 °C	23.5 °C	27.0 °C	36.7 °C	18.5 °C	31	28
November	31.0 °C	22.3 °C	26.0 °C	36.1 °C	16.5 °C	30	22
December	31.0 °C	21.1 °C	25.3 °C	35.8 °C	14.5 °C	31	23

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	10 mm	2	11 h/day	33 %	71 %	15 km/h
February	12 mm	3	12 h/day	31 %	68 %	15 km/h
March	24 mm	5	12 h/day	33 %	67 %	16 km/h
April	65 mm	11	13 h/day	39 %	69 %	14 km/h
May	167 mm	20	13 h/day	57 %	74 %	12 km/h
June	133 mm	19	13 h/day	61 %	74 %	10 km/h
July	99 mm	17	13 h/day	53 %	71 %	12 km/h
August	118 mm	19	13 h/day	60 %	73 %	11 km/h
September	148 mm	22	12 h/day	63 %	78 %	9.9 km/h
October	128 mm	18	12 h/day	60 %	79 %	10 km/h
November	51 mm	9	11 h/day	48 %	77 %	13 km/h
December	13 mm	3	11 h/day	37 %	73 %	14 km/h

How Dessalines compares

The same four figures for nearby destinations, so the numbers above have something to be read against. Summer high is the warmest month's average high; winter low is the coldest month's average low.

Destination	Summer high	Winter low	Rain per year	Days above 25 °C
Dessalines	34 °C	21 °C	966 mm	365
Saint-Marc · Haiti	32 °C	22 °C	644 mm	365
Carrefour · Haiti	33 °C	21 °C	1,285 mm	365
Port-au-Prince · Haiti	34 °C	21 °C	1,454 mm	365
Port-de-Paix · Haiti	32 °C	22 °C	1,000 mm	360
Delmas · Haiti	33 °C	21 °C	1,454 mm	364
Pétionville · Haiti	31 °C	19 °C	1,532 mm	363

Where Dessalines ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The warmest places in North America in December	3rdof 50	31 °C
The warmest places in North America in February	3rdof 50	32 °C
The warmest places in North America in January	3rdof 50	31 °C
The warmest places in North America in November	3rdof 50	31 °C
The warmest places in North America year-round	4thof 50	32 °C
The warmest places in North America in March	7thof 50	32 °C

Planning a trip? See the best time to visit Dessalines.

QuestionsCommon questions about Dessalines’s climate

When is the best time to visit Dessalines?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. January, February, December sit closest to 20 °C on average, July is the warmest month and January the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Dessalines get?

In July, the warmest month, daily highs average 34 °C. About 323 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 40 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 21 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Dessalines?

May, averaging 167 mm over 20 days with rain. The driest month is January with 10 mm. The year as a whole averages 966 mm.

Are these figures a forecast?

No. They are 1991–2020 climate normals: the average of thirty years, which describes what a month is usually like in Dessalines rather than what any particular week will bring. Individual years can differ substantially from the normal.

Data sources and method

ERA5 / ERA5-Land reanalysis — Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), ECMWF. Copernicus Licence
Open-Meteo — Open-Meteo.com. CC BY 4.0
NOAA OISST v2.1 — NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Public domain
GeoNames — GeoNames.org. CC BY 4.0

Normal period: 1991–2020
Dataset version: era5-1991-2020-scores1.1
Last processed: 1 August 2026

Measured values come from ERA5 reanalysis and are reproduced unchanged. Calculated by us: monthly rankings, daylight hours, beach and comfort scores. Full formulas are on the methodology page.

Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.