Climate and average weather in Barrett Town

In Barrett Town, the weather is muggy, hot, wet, and partly cloudy and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near hot levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around May.

Best: mid November to mid April

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Barrett Town typically varies from 22°C to 30°C, and is rarely below 21°C or above 31°C. July is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Barrett Town for warm-weather activities is from mid November to mid April.

Hottest
Jul
30°
Coldest
Jan
22°
Wettest
May
195 mm
Driest
Feb
40 mm
Rain / yr
1315 mm
225 wet days
Daylight
10.9–13.1 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
53 m
18.5°N
Clearest
Feb
37% cloud

Barrett Town weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around mid November to mid April.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Barrett Town, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

Temperatures in Barrett Town stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is July, with an average high of 30°C and low of 25°C; the coolest is January, with an average low of 22°C and high of 27°C.

Days typically run about 5°C warmer than nights year-round.

20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2722
Feb2722
Mar2823
Apr2923
May2924
Jun3025
Jul3025
Aug3025
Sep3025
Oct2925
Nov2824
Dec2723

How hot and cold Barrett Town really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the hottest afternoons, once humidity is folded in, Barrett Town feels like about 37°C (around August 24). About 188 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in August.

20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan28272222
Feb29272222
Mar30282223
Apr31292323
May33292424
Jun35302525
Jul36302525
Aug36302525
Sep36302525
Oct34292525
Nov31282424
Dec30272323

Average hourly temperature in Barrett Town

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on July afternoons, near 30°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near 22°C.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Barrett Town weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan27° / 22°4612.3116.5
Feb27° / 22°4011.411.46.5
Mar28° / 23°6013.411.96.2
Apr29° / 23°8615.512.45.1
May29° / 24°19523.112.93.9
Jun30° / 25°12420.513.13.6
Jul30° / 25°11922.7133.5
Aug30° / 25°14725.812.63.1
Sep30° / 25°18425.912.13.1
Oct29° / 25°16924.711.63.6
Nov28° / 24°9117.411.15.1
Dec27° / 23°5412.110.96.4

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Barrett Town gets about 1315 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is very wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 6.5 months, from around Apr 28 to Nov 12, peaking in September at about 88% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Feb 28.

May is the wettest month by volume, with 195 mm over about 23 wet days; February is the driest, with 40 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetSep 27 · 88%Feb 28 · 38%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan4012
Feb4011
Mar4313
Apr5316
May7323
Jun7021
Jul7323
Aug8326
Sep8626
Oct7925
Nov5817
Dec4012

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Barrett Town collects about 1315 mm of rain across 225 wet days — roughly 110 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. May is the wettest month with 195 mm, while February is the driest at just 40 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 42% of the year’s total.

050100150200JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec464060861951241191471841699154
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan4612
Feb4011
Mar6013
Apr8616
May19523
Jun12421
Jul11923
Aug14726
Sep18426
Oct16925
Nov9117
Dec5412

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Barrett Town, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows significant seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around November 16 and lasts for 5.7 months, ending around May 9. The clearest month is February, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 89% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around May 10 and lasts for 6.2 months, ending around November 15. The cloudiest month is September, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 60% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecFeb 21 · 90%Jun 5 · 36%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan8416
Feb8911
Mar8614
Apr8020
May5446
Jun4258
Jul5446
Aug4852
Sep4060
Oct4654
Nov6535
Dec7822

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. The longest day, around June 4, brings about 13 h 06 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 10 h 54 min — a swing of roughly 2 h 12 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.06:515:50
Feb11.46:456:07
Mar11.96:256:17
Apr12.45:596:24
May12.95:416:34
Jun13.15:386:45
Jul13.05:466:47
Aug12.65:566:34
Sep12.16:026:09
Oct11.66:095:43
Nov11.16:235:30
Dec10.96:415:34

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Barrett Town averages about 12 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 5 and 20 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 6.1 months, from around Nov 3 to May 7. The sunniest month is February, with roughly 20 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is June, down near 7 sunny days — about 66% fewer than the February peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantFeb 1120 daysJun 25 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan19Bright
Feb18Bright
Mar18Bright
Apr15Bright
May9Mixed
Jun7Gloomy
Jul9Mixed
Aug7Gloomy
Sep6Gloomy
Oct8Gloomy
Nov14Mixed
Dec18Bright

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

Barrett Town is humid all year round — on a typical day the air feels at least humid, and there is no real dry season to wait for.

The stickiest month is March, when it feels muggy, oppressive or miserable about 95% of the time. Even in March, the mildest month, the air is dry or comfortable only 0% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecmiserableoppressivemuggy
Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan0642520
Feb0656370
Mar0549460
Apr0123750
May004879
Jun0007228
Jul0005545
Aug0003763
Sep0003961
Oct0016336
Nov0111799
Dec1320751

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Across the year, average wind speed in Barrett Town is typically calm, near 12 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 4.8 months, from around Nov 3 to Mar 27. The windiest month is December, averaging about 14 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Jul 18 to Nov 2, with September the calmest month at about 9 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeDec 30 · 14 km/hSep 20 · 9 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan14light breeze
Feb13light breeze
Mar12light breeze
Apr11calm
May11calm
Jun12calm
Jul12calm
Aug10calm
Sep9calm
Oct10calm
Nov13light breeze
Dec14light breeze

Hazard calendar for Barrett Town

In seasonPeak

When the seasonal hazards worth planning around — the rainy season, tropical-cyclone risk and dust haze — are active through the year.

Barrett Town sits in the Atlantic hurricane belt; the season peaks August–October.

Atlantic hurricane
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Best time to visit Barrett Town

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Barrett Town throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around early April, Barrett Town is still near the tail of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds already thinning.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 18°C and 28°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Barrett Town for general outdoor tourist activities is from late November to mid April, with a peak score in the last week of February.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 25 · 6.6

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan6.5good
Feb6.5good
Mar6.2good
Apr5.1fair
May3.9fair
Jun3.6fair
Jul3.5fair
Aug3.2poor
Sep3.1poor
Oct3.6fair
Nov5.1fair
Dec6.4good

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Barrett Town for hot-weather activities is from mid November to early May, with a peak score in the last week of February.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 28 · 6.9

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Barrett Town, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

Barrett Town packs about the same all year — highs hold near 30°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Barrett Town sees daytime highs around 30°C and nights near 25°C. Pack light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. About 23 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Barrett Town

Average ocean temperature at the nearest coast, month by month, banded into swim-comfort zones — the other half of the beach question.

The sea at the nearest coast (about 14 km away) is warmest in September at about 30°C and coldest in February near 27°C.

The water stays above 20°C all year — warm enough for a swim any month.

26°28°30°32°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan27Warm
Feb27Warm
Mar27Warm
Apr28Warm
May28Tropical
Jun29Tropical
Jul29Tropical
Aug29Tropical
Sep30Tropical
Oct29Tropical
Nov29Tropical
Dec28Warm

UV index (midday) in Barrett Town by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Barrett Town peaks around April 16 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 16 at about 7 (very high).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — every month of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecVery highExtremeVery highApr 16UV 13Dec 16UV 7
UV index (midday)Level
Jan8Very high
Feb10Extreme
Mar12Extreme
Apr13Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep11Extreme
Oct11Extreme
Nov8Very high
Dec7Very high

Average hourly UV index in Barrett Town

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in April the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan6.53.5
Feb75
Mar7.56
Apr86
May86
Jun8.56.5
Jul8.56
Aug8.56
Sep7.55.5
Oct7.55
Nov6.53.5
Dec63

Air quality in Barrett Town by month

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see which months the air is worst, not just the yearly average.

Air quality in Barrett Town is worst in June — around 32 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 4.3× the cleanest month (December, 7 µg/m³).

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

010203040JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodJun 2231 µg/m³Dec 177 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan8Good
Feb9Good
Mar10Good
Apr13Moderate
May18Moderate
Jun32Moderate
Jul30Moderate
Aug23Moderate
Sep16Moderate
Oct13Moderate
Nov8Good
Dec7Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Barrett Town is frost-free year round — even the coldest nights rarely reach freezing, so there is no start or end to the growing season.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecfrost-free year round
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec1000

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 10°C)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 10°C: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Barrett Town banks about 5,967 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan454
Feb412
Mar468
Apr478
May517
Jun525
Jul551
Aug554
Sep529
Oct527
Nov481
Dec472

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Barrett Town receives about 5.7 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.3 and 6.7 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.7 months, from around Mar 2 to Sep 20. The brightest month is July, averaging about 6.6 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 4.4 kWh/m² — roughly 34% less than the July peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJul 56.7 kWhDec 174.3 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.6Bright
Feb5.3Bright
Mar6.0Intense
Apr6.6Intense
May6.3Intense
Jun6.5Intense
Jul6.7Intense
Aug6.3Intense
Sep5.8Bright
Oct5.1Bright
Nov4.5Bright
Dec4.3Bright

Where is Barrett Town?

Barrett Town sits at 18.5°N, 77.8°W, 53 m above sea level, in Jamaica. The nearest listed city is Montego Bay, 13 km away.

Montego BayFalmouthSavanna-la-MarMandevilleNegrilOcho RiosMay PenLinstead

Topography around Barrett Town

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Barrett Town.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Barrett Town has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 388 m around an average of 92 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 608 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 978 m.

The land around Barrett Town is covered by trees (48%) and water (37%) within 3 km, water (53%) and trees (36%) within 16 km, and water (55%) and trees (36%) within 80 km.

3 km
388 m
16 km
608 m
80 km
978 m
treesgrasslandartificial surfaceswaterwetlandmangroves
Nearby: Montego Bay 13 km · Falmouth 16 km · Savanna-la-Mar 48 km · Mandeville 61 km · Negril 64 km · Ocho Rios 75 km · May Pen 85 km · Linstead 92 km

Jamaica travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 2
Exercise Increased Caution
Power plugs
Type A / B
110 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 60% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$8,003
2025
Happiness
6.3 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Homicide rate
49.4
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
15.1
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Upper middle
World Bank
Religion
Protestant 65%none 21%other 7%Roman Catholic 2%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Barrett Town (18.5149°, -77.8018°, elevation 53 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. Tropical-cyclone seasons are the published climatological basin seasons (NOAA National Hurricane Center / regional warning centres). Sea temperatures are the NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology (public domain), sampled at the nearest ocean point. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).