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US Virgin Islands

2 cities in the atlas · 2 airports with scheduled flights

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Photo: Sunil Pereira · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Capital: Charlotte Amalie
Currency: USD; United States Dollar
Local time: Atlantic Standard TimeUTC-04:00
Calling code: +1-340
Driving: On the left

Facts

US Virgin Islands in figures

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

Capital: Charlotte Amalie
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: EnglishSpoken: English
Time zones: Atlantic Standard TimeUTC-04:00
Calling code: +1-340
Driving: On the left
Plugs: 110 V · 60 HzAs recorded in Wikidata.
Emergency numbers: 911general emergencyAs recorded in Wikidata. Check them locally on arrival; they are not the only safety information you need.
Population: 103,792 (2025, World Bank)
Area: 352 km²
Internet domain: .vi
Land borders: None: an island or a coastal territory with no land border recorded

When to go

Climate across US Virgin Islands

On these averages, Charlotte Amalie 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
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The main cities, month by month
City	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec
Charlotte Amalie	26°	26°	26°	27°	28°	28°	29°	29°	29°	29°	28°	27°

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 US Virgin Islands 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 US Virgin Islands

All 2 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.

Charlotte AmalieCapitalSaint Thomas Island20,000

Smaller places with an airport · 1

St Croix

Airports

Airports in US Virgin Islands

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

Large airports

STTCyril E. King AirportCharlotte Amalie

Medium airports · 1

STX · St Croix

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 US Virgin Islands

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

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