Haiti : When should you leave?

The climate in Haiti is tropical with two rainy seasons, one from April to June, the other from October to November. The hurricane season extends from June to the end of November. If the country knows on the coasts a pleasant temperature around 30 °C in the year, in the interior of the country, the deforestation leads to an increasingly arid and hot climate (around 40 °C). Rainfall is increasingly rare and brutal causing floods and landslides.

To stay in Haiti, one should avoid the rainy seasons from April to June and from October to November, especially if one plans to travel around the country. These seasons are however interesting for the discovery of the biodiversity. But it is especially the period of the hurricanes from June to December which is not recommended. You should therefore plan your stay in Haiti to take advantage of the best period, from December to March. And for the carnival: it is February in Port-au-Prince and in several other cities of the country, from Sunday of the Epiphany to Ash Wednesday it is the Mardi Gras with big heads, float parades, music groups and dances in the street.