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Caribbean Netherlands

One city in the atlas · 3 airports with scheduled flights

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Currency: USD; United States Dollar
Local time: Atlantic Standard TimeUTC-04:00
Calling code: +599
Driving: On the right

Facts

Caribbean Netherlands in figures

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

Capital: None recorded
Currency: United States Dollar USDToday's indicative rate: The same as your currencyIndicative, from the day's reference rates; a bank or card will charge its own.
Languages: Official: DutchSpoken: Dutch, Papiamento and English
Time zones: Atlantic Standard TimeUTC-04:00
Calling code: +599
Driving: On the right
Plugs: Not recorded in Wikidata
Emergency numbers: Not recorded in Wikidata
Population: 18,012 (GeoNames, no reference year)
Area: 328 km²
Internet domain: .bq
Land borders: None: an island or a coastal territory with no land border recorded

When to go

Climate across Caribbean Netherlands

On these averages, Kralendijk has a mean high between 18°C and 32°C and under 150 mm of rain in January to December.

Mild to warm and dry
Mild to warm, humid or showery
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Cool
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The main cities, month by month
City	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec
Kralendijk	27°	27°	27°	27°	28°	28°	28°	29°	29°	29°	29°	28°

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).

On the map

Where Caribbean Netherlands is

The dashed box is the extent of the country's main landmass, from Natural Earth; outlying islands fall outside it. The dots are the cities with pages of their own.

Land borders

None: an island or a coastal territory with no land border recorded

Cities

Cities in Caribbean Netherlands

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

KralendijkCapitalBonaire10,620

Airports

Airports in Caribbean Netherlands

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

Large airports

BONFlamingo International AirportKralendijk

Medium airports · 2

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 Caribbean Netherlands

Tell us where in Caribbean Netherlands, 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

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.
Wikimedia Commons — Each photograph's author and licence are printed beside it.
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.

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