Hurricane season June to November – travel issue

When is Hurricane season: Officially, the Atlantic Caribbean Gulf of Mexico hurricane season is from 1 June to 30 November, but as the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) notes:

“There is nothing magical in these dates, and hurricanes have occurred outside of these six months, but these dates were selected to encompass over 97% of tropical activity.”

However there is a tropical storm brewing now, just east of the Bahamas and Cuba to prove a point.

You will also find travel deals to the Caribbean and Mexico will be cheaper during these months, however there will be good deals to be had and it wont rain all the time..

When is the hurricane season most active?

Again according to the AOML, there’s a “very peaked season from August to October”, with:

78% of the tropical storm days
87% of the “minor” hurricane days
96% of the “major” hurricane days

And within this peak hurricane season, early to mid-September is the pinnacle.

Even if your holiday isn’t actually in the path of a major storm, weather patterns are disrupted in a wide radius, and some days may be spoiled by rain and wind if you’re in an affected area.