Practicals informations

If you decide to install you in Saint Martin, check that your apparatuses function well in 220 Volts and 50/60 Hz. Even if if certain apparatuses function the first times, wear is premature.

Do not carry with you your television set, it would not function because the standard used with Saint Martin's day is the SEKAM/K whereas in metropolis, it is of type SECAM/L

Weather

Many sun, the rain also, the wind, the tepid twilights and the nights suaves: it makes good food in the Antilles. If the West-Indian tradition retained the straw hat, it is that the sun knocks hard That fall well, the sea is tepid: it can exceed 29 oC July at October and does not go down below 24 oC during the dry season.

All the year, the sun rises between 5 H and 6 H and lie down between 18 H and 19 H.

Two seasons. From February to April, the dry season, called the "Lent", is the most pleasant season, it is the TOURIST SEASON. During our summer holidays, from July to October, on the other hand, it is the wet season: L ' "wintering", June and October being months of transition which can be pleasant. The air (30 oC) is heavy, even choking when trade winds - "kings of the Antilles" -, fortunately frequent, do not refresh the atmosphere, and the rainy afternoon. The flood of tourists, him, was straightforwardly dried up and, in the hotels, one sees refleurir good mood and the soft prices (LOW SEASON).

August and September are the preferred months of the cyclones.

These phenomena of an extreme violence generally relate to the Northern half of the West-Indian arc. Martin saint being located at North, is more states that the islands of the center or the South of the West-Indian arc.