Things to Do in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in May
May weather, activities, events & insider tips
May Weather in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Temperature, rainfall and humidity at a glance
Is May Right for You?
Weigh the advantages and considerations before booking
- + May sits in the sweet spot between the winter rush and summer rains - ferries still run the full Grenadines schedule but you'll share Bequia's Princess Margaret Beach with maybe six other people, not sixty
- + Hotel rates on Saint Vincent drop 25-30 % from April peaks. The same ocean-view room in the Buccament Valley that needs three-month advance booking in February suddenly opens up a week ahead
- + Trade-winds ease this month: sea surface around the Tobago Cays flattens to aquarium glass, making the 45-minute speed-boat hop from Union Island feel like skating rather than pounding
- + Breadfruit season peaks - roadside stalls in Kingstown sell fire-roasted 'fruit' split open and slathered with salt-butter for EC-dollars-cheap, the smoky-sweet smell drifting halfway to E.T. Joshua Airport
- − Humidity hovers at 70 %; by 10 a.m. cotton shirts stick to the back of the open-air minivans that climb the hair-pins to Mesopotamia Valley, and the breeze only kicks in above 300 m (980 ft)
- − Early-season tropical waves start rolling off Africa - skies can blacken by 3 p.m. and dump 25 mm (1 in) in twenty minutes, enough to turn the path to Dark View Falls into a mud-slide
- − Some smaller guest houses on Mayreau and Petit St Vincent close for annual maintenance. If you've dreamed of sleeping where the Caribbean meets the Atlantic with zero light pollution, options shrink
Year-Round Climate
How May compares to the rest of the year
| Month | High | Low | Rainfall |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 25°C | 20°C | 2.0 inches |
| Feb | 25°C | 20°C | 2.0 inches |
| Mar | 25°C | 20°C | 2.0 inches |
| Apr | 25°C | 20°C | 2.0 inches |
| May | 25°C | 20°C | 2.0 inches |
| Jun | 25°C | 20°C | 2.0 inches |
| Jul | 25°C | 20°C | 2.0 inches |
| Aug | 25°C | 20°C | 2.0 inches |
| Sep | 25°C | 20°C | 2.0 inches |
| Oct | 25°C | 20°C | 2.0 inches |
| Nov | 25°C | 20°C | 2.0 inches |
| Dec | 25°C | 20°C | 2.0 inches |
Best Activities in May
Top things to do during your visit
May's glass-calm lagoon means you drift over green turtles grazing sea-grass in 2 m (6 ft) of aquamarine water without fighting a current. The endangered hawksbills surface right beside your mask, unbothered because only one or two boats are anchored, not the carnival of January.
Morning cloud builds by 11 a.m., so 6 a.m. starts from Rabacca Dry River let you stand on the 1,234 m (4 050 ft) rim looking straight down the lava dome before mist swallows the crater lake. Trade-wind relief keeps the trail temperature in the low 20s °C (low 70s °F) instead of the steam-room of July.
May is when hardwood shavings curl out of the boat-sheds in Port Elizabeth before the summer rains swell the planks. You'll smell white-cedar sap and see shipwrights hand-shaping 24-inch ribs that started as trees in the interior mountains - craft unchanged since the 1840s.
Saturday market hums low-season calm: vendors have time to show you how to massage a breadfruit, slit a christophene, and pound seasoning peppers into green seasoning. You end in a family kitchen in Edinboro, stirring callaloo while 94.1 FM pumps soca through cracked phone speakers.
New-moon weeks in May switch off the sky and the pond lights up like spilled mercury with each paddle stroke. Humidity is still high but the 27 °C (81 °F) water feels cooler than the air, so you glide shirtless under mango-scented air while tarpon flash silver beneath the glow.
May Events & Festivals
What's happening during your visit
Traditional seven-foot sailing workboats race shoulder-to-shoulder in Admiralty Bay over the Easter weekend (dates float. Often early May). Beach-side shacks serve conch-water rum at 9 a.m.; the atmosphere is village-fair loud, not Caribbean-cruise slick.
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