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Bahamas

3 cities in the atlas · 22 airports with scheduled flights

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Capital: Nassau
Currency: BSD; Bahamian Dollar
Local time: Eastern Daylight TimeUTC-04:00
Calling code: +1-242
Driving: On the left
Plugs: Type A and B

Facts

Bahamas in figures

From named datasets: GeoNames, CLDR, the World Bank and Wikidata. Each is credited at the foot of the page.

Capital: Nassau
Currency: Bahamian Dollar BSDToday's indicative rate: BSD 1 ≈ USD 1Indicative, from the day's reference rates; a bank or card will charge its own.
Languages: Official: EnglishSpoken: English
Time zones: Eastern Daylight TimeUTC-04:00
Calling code: +1-242
Driving: On the left
Plugs: Type A and B120 V · 60 HzAs recorded in Wikidata.
Emergency numbers: 919ambulance, fire and policeAs recorded in Wikidata. Check them locally on arrival; they are not the only safety information you need.
Population: 403,033 (2025, World Bank)
Area: 13,940 km²
Internet domain: .bs
Land borders: None: an island or a coastal territory with no land border recorded

When to go

Climate across Bahamas

On these averages, Nassau has a mean high between 18°C and 32°C and under 150 mm of rain in July and October to May.

Mild to warm and dry
Mild to warm, humid or showery
Hot
Cool
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Cold

The main cities, month by month
City	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec
Nassau	24°	24°	24°	25°	27°	28°	29°	30°	29°	28°	26°	25°

Mostly sea in the model's grid cell: the highs shown run lower than on land.

Mean daily highs, modelled for an area about 50 km across: NASA POWER climatology, 2001–2020. A cell's swatch says what the month is like (key above).

Cities

Cities in Bahamas

All 3 places in the atlas: capitals, cities of 300,000 people or more, the places its airports serve, and the ones we have written guides to.

NassauCapitalNew Providence227,940

Smaller places with an airport · 2

Airports

Airports in Bahamas

Airports with scheduled flights and an IATA code, from OurAirports.

Visas and entry

Entry rules depend on your passport and change often, so this page does not state them. Check the destination government's official immigration website, or ask our visa desk to check your case for you.

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Plan it

Plan a trip to Bahamas

Tell us where in Bahamas, when and who is travelling, and a person puts the flights, the stays and the rest into one quote.

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Sources for this page

All sources and licences

GeoNames — Place data © GeoNames (geonames.org), CC BY 4.0.
OurAirports — Airport data from OurAirports (ourairports.com), public domain.
NASA POWER (Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources), Climatology API v2 — These data were obtained from the NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) POWER Project funded through the NASA Earth Science/Applied Science Program.
Wikidata — Facts from Wikidata (wikidata.org), CC0.
Unicode CLDR 48.2.2 (cldr-json) — Unicode CLDR data, © Unicode, Inc., Unicode License v3.
Natural Earth v5.1.2, 1:10m admin-0 map units — Made with Natural Earth. Licence: Public domain
World Bank, World Development Indicators: Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL) — Population: World Bank, World Development Indicators (SP.POP.TOTL), CC BY 4.0.