Bridgetown
Bridgetown is the capital and largest city of Barbados. The Bridgetown port lies on Carlisle Bay on the southwestern coast. The city acts as an important financial, informatics, convention centre, and cruise ship port of call in the Caribbean region. The present-day location was established by English settlers in 1628. On 25 June 2011, "Historic Bridgetown and its Garrison" was listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
Typical weather
1981–presentVital absurdities
measured · the Anti-AwardsWhat to do each season
2dry-season
the dry season; openmeteo mean 26.0-27.4 °C (Feb coolest 26.0); the driest months (Feb-Mar 0.6 mm/day); cooled by the trade winds; the peak cruise/tourist season
- the dry comfortable window — the peak cruise season; Carlisle Bay and the UNESCO Garrison at their most usable
- the trade-wind breeze; the clearest skies and the lowest rainfall
wet-season
the wet season; openmeteo mean 26.9-28.1 °C (Sep warmest 28.1); wet Jun-Dec (Sep-Oct wettest 3.3-3.7 mm/day); the Atlantic hurricane season; trade winds persist
- the wet season and the hurricane-season risk; the heaviest rain Sep-Oct
- the greenest period; the lowest tourist density outside the dry window
What it is known for
Important moments in a year
Unesco Inscription
- 'Historic Bridgetown and its Garrison' was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site
2007 Cricket World Cup Final
- Kensington Oval hosted the 2007 Cricket World Cup final
1628 Founding
- English settlers under Charles Wolverstone established Bridgetown
- the 17th-century colonial-founding origin
On the record
source-trackedBridgetown features a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw), with relatively constant temperatures throughout the course of the year. While fairly hot, Bridgetown is cooled somewhat by the trade winds.
Its wet season is from June through December, while the dry season covers the remaining months.
On 25 June 2011, 'Historic Bridgetown and its Garrison' was listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
The present-day location of the city was established by English settlers in 1628.
The Public Buildings or parliament … house the third oldest continuous parliament in the British Commonwealth.
Bridgetown is the only city outside the present United States that George Washington visited.
The city acts as an important financial, informatics, convention centre, and cruise ship port of call in the Caribbean region.
The Bridgetown Port acts as one of the major shipping and transhipment hubs from international locations for the entire Eastern Caribbean.
Barbados's main exports are sugar, rum, and molasses.
Kensington Oval [is the] site of the 2007 Cricket World Cup final.
Grantley Adams International Airport … and New York City's JFK … were the only cities in the Western Hemisphere to be served by regularly scheduled British Airways Concorde service.
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