How extreme does Basse-Terre's weather get?

The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest days Basse-Terre has recorded — the outer limits of what its weather can do, and how far they sit beyond a normal day.

Based on 20 years of daily weather observations (2005–present), from the Melville Hall Airport station 69 km away. Updated through August 2025 — an all-time extreme only changes when a more extreme day actually occurs, so some dates are old. That is normal, not stale data.

The four kinds of extreme

The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest single days Basse-Terre has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year looks like.

🔥 Hottest day

99°F Jun 30, 2006

The three most extreme on record

1 99°F Jun 30, 2006

2 99°F Jun 14, 2011

3 99°F Aug 8, 2023

❄️ Coldest night

59°F Jan 14, 2014

The three most extreme on record

1 59°F Jan 14, 2014

2 64°F Mar 14, 2013

3 64°F Mar 15, 2013

🌧️ Most rain in one day

9.91 in Nov 7, 2022

The three most extreme on record

1 9.91 in Nov 7, 2022recent

2 9.15 in Sep 18, 2022

3 8.13 in Oct 1, 2022

In plain terms

Across the record, Basse-Terre has reached as high as 99°F and as low as 59°F. A single day has delivered over 10 inches of rain. Those are the outer edges worth knowing if you are moving here, planning a trip, or thinking about a house.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — modelled for this location from ERA5-Land reanalysis, a ~9 km global grid, because no long-record weather station is close enough to use.

Precipitation — 1991–2020 normals computed from 10 years of daily observations at LE Lamentin, a weather station, about 175 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →

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