Cockburn Town climate

Name: Cockburn Town
Address: TC

Cockburn Town is warmest in September, with average highs of 28 °C, and coldest in March, when nights average 24 °C. September is the wettest month (108 mm) and February the driest (21 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Cockburn Town averages 646 mm of rain and 307 days above 25 °C.

Turks and Caicos Islands · population 3,720 · 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 September 28 °C
Coldest month March 24 °C
Driest month February 21 mm
Wettest month September 108 mm
Least cloud February 31 % cloud
Hottest on record October 30 °C
Coldest on record January 20 °C
Warmest sea September 29 °C

What to expectCockburn Town through the year

Cockburn Town has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 25 °C in March to 28 °C in September, a swing of 3.5 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 307 days a year reach 25 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 30 °C, in October.

Rain is strongly seasonal. September averages 108 mm against 21 mm in February — 5.1 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

The sea off Cockburn Town is warmest in September at 29 °C and coldest in February at 26 °C. Sea temperature lags the air by a month or two, which is why late summer swims warmer than early summer at the same air temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	25.1 °C	35 mm	35 %
February	24.9 °C	21 mm	31 %
March	24.9 °C	34 mm	33 %
April	25.4 °C	33 mm	35 %
May	26.4 °C	54 mm	51 %
June	27.6 °C	35 mm	54 %
July	28.0 °C	47 mm	43 %
August	28.3 °C	58 mm	46 %
September	28.4 °C	108 mm	53 %
October	27.9 °C	95 mm	52 %
November	26.8 °C	82 mm	45 %
December	25.9 °C	43 mm	37 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C
January	25.1 °C	24.0 °C	24.6 °C	27.0 °C	20.3 °C	19
February	24.9 °C	23.7 °C	24.3 °C	26.3 °C	20.7 °C	15
March	24.9 °C	23.7 °C	24.3 °C	26.4 °C	20.4 °C	14
April	25.4 °C	24.3 °C	24.9 °C	27.9 °C	21.4 °C	21
May	26.4 °C	25.2 °C	25.9 °C	28.3 °C	21.3 °C	29
June	27.6 °C	26.5 °C	27.1 °C	28.9 °C	23.8 °C	30
July	28.0 °C	26.8 °C	27.5 °C	29.4 °C	23.8 °C	31
August	28.3 °C	27.1 °C	27.8 °C	29.5 °C	24.5 °C	31
September	28.4 °C	26.9 °C	27.8 °C	29.5 °C	24.4 °C	30
October	27.9 °C	26.4 °C	27.2 °C	29.8 °C	23.2 °C	31
November	26.8 °C	25.4 °C	26.2 °C	29.0 °C	22.8 °C	30
December	25.9 °C	24.7 °C	25.3 °C	27.8 °C	20.6 °C	26

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind	Sea temp
January	35 mm	8	11 h/day	35 %	76 %	33 km/h	26.0 °C
February	21 mm	5	11 h/day	31 %	76 %	32 km/h	25.6 °C
March	34 mm	6	12 h/day	33 %	76 %	31 km/h	25.6 °C
April	33 mm	6	13 h/day	35 %	78 %	30 km/h	26.0 °C
May	54 mm	10	13 h/day	51 %	80 %	30 km/h	26.8 °C
June	35 mm	7	13 h/day	54 %	82 %	31 km/h	27.8 °C
July	47 mm	8	13 h/day	43 %	81 %	33 km/h	28.2 °C
August	58 mm	10	13 h/day	46 %	81 %	32 km/h	28.7 °C
September	108 mm	14	12 h/day	53 %	81 %	29 km/h	28.9 °C
October	95 mm	15	12 h/day	52 %	80 %	28 km/h	28.8 °C
November	82 mm	14	11 h/day	45 %	78 %	31 km/h	27.9 °C
December	43 mm	10	11 h/day	37 %	77 %	32 km/h	26.8 °C

How Cockburn Town 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
Cockburn Town	28 °C	24 °C	646 mm	307
Santiago de los Caballeros · Dominican Republic	33 °C	19 °C	712 mm	350
Port-de-Paix · Haiti	32 °C	22 °C	1,000 mm	360
Dessalines · Haiti	34 °C	21 °C	966 mm	365
Saint-Marc · Haiti	32 °C	22 °C	644 mm	365
Delmas · Haiti	33 °C	21 °C	1,454 mm	364
Port-au-Prince · Haiti	34 °C	21 °C	1,454 mm	365

Where Cockburn Town ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
Best beach destinations in the world in April	29thof 50	91/100
Best beach destinations in the world year-round	38thof 50	84/100

Planning a trip? See the best time to visit Cockburn Town.

QuestionsCommon questions about Cockburn Town’s climate

When is the best time to visit Cockburn Town?

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

How hot does Cockburn Town get?

In September, the warmest month, daily highs average 28 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 30 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 24 °C in March, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Cockburn Town?

September, averaging 108 mm over 14 days with rain. The driest month is February with 21 mm. The year as a whole averages 646 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 Cockburn Town 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.