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JAMAICA · THE LUMINOUS LAGOON · 18.49° N Falmouth’s lagoon does its trick after dark, when a boat cuts the water and the glow rises around the hull. The boats run year round, so the question is never whether the trip exists in your month. It is whether the drive over from your hotel, the … Read more
JAMAICA · SOUTH COAST · BEST TIME TO VISIT The South Coast asks a different question of the calendar than the rest of Jamaica. The strip around Treasure Beach sits in Saint Elizabeth, the driest parish in the country, and the record shows it: 0.52 inches of rain in an average January, with 1.3 days … Read more
BLUE MOUNTAINS · JAMAICA · THE 12-MONTH VERDICT The range behind Kingston keeps a climate of its own. High on the ridge, the warmest month of the twelve averages a high of 62.8°F in August, and the coolest averages 56.9°F in January. Nights sit between 49.0°F and 54.3°F all year. Jamaica’s beach arithmetic does not … Read more
JAMAICA · KINGSTON · 18.0° N Kingston is the one Jamaican trip that is a city trip. Travelers come for the National Gallery and the record shops, for patty counters and a sound system on a Friday night, then take the mountain road that climbs into coffee country behind town. Most US flights land at … Read more
DRY TORTUGAS · BEST TIME TO VISIT · 70 MILES WEST OF KEY WEST Most Florida trips survive a bad month. This one does not: Dry Tortugas is a fort, a beach and a reef on a speck of sand, reached by boat across seventy miles of open Gulf, and the calendar decides what the … Read more
FLORIDA · SPACE COAST · BEST TIME TO VISIT November averages 1.79 inches of rain on the Space Coast. June averages 8.05, four and a half times as much, spread over 11.5 wet days instead of 3.0. That one gap decides more Space Coast vacations than any brochure line about Florida sunshine, whether the trip … Read more
