Region · Haiti

Best time to visit Sud

This guide covers 4 destinations in Sud, a first-level administrative division of Haiti. The largest by population are Les Cayes, Aquin and Torbeck. Across its destinations, January is the month comfortable in the most places. The airport most of them name as their nearest is Antoine-Simon International Airport (CYA).

Destinations in this guide
4
Comfortable in the most places
January
Main airport
CYAAntoine-Simon International Airport
Currency
HTGgourde
Time zone
America/Port-au-Prince

Destinations

Destinations in Sud

Every destination in this guide in Sud, the ones with the most places to stay first. Best months are the months that are comfortable there (average daytime high between 18 °C and 29 °C and under 80 mm of rain in the month); the nearest airport is by straight-line distance from the centre.

DestinationPopulationPlaces to stayBest monthsNearest airport
Les Cayes151,696December to FebruaryCYA · 9 km
Aquin104,216JanuaryCYA · 41 km
Torbeck76,083December to FebruaryCYA · 12 km
Saint-Louis-du-Sud64,924December to FebruaryCYA · 25 km

When to go

Best time to visit Sud

From the climate of 4 destinations in Sud with climate data: how many are comfortable each month (average daytime high between 18 °C and 29 °C and under 80 mm of rain in the month), and the typical high and rainfall across them. The month comfortable in the most places: January.

MonthComfortable destinationsTypical highTypical rainfall
January4 of 428 °C66 mm
February3 of 428 °C73 mm
March0 of 429 °C113 mm
April0 of 429 °C166 mm
May0 of 430 °C290 mm
June0 of 431 °C140 mm
July0 of 431 °C148 mm
August0 of 431 °C180 mm
September0 of 431 °C223 mm
October0 of 430 °C376 mm
November0 of 429 °C146 mm
December3 of 429 °C67 mm

Typical = the median across the destinations. Averages for 1991–2020 over the surrounding area, a grid square about 50 km across, so a coast or a nearby mountain can make the town itself warmer or cooler. Data: CRU TS v4.10, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia (Open Database License).

Getting there

Airports serving Sud

The airports with scheduled flights that the destinations in Sud name among their nearest, by how many name each as the nearest. An airport can lie outside the region. Distances are straight lines from a destination's centre.

medium airport · Les Cayes

CYA · Antoine-Simon International Airport

Nearest for 4 destinationsNamed by 4 destinations8.9 km from the closest
medium airport · Carrefour Sanon

JEE · Jérémie Airport

Named by 4 destinations67 km from the closest
large airport · Port-au-Prince

PAP · Toussaint Louverture International Airport

Named by 2 destinations121 km from the closest

Good to know

Public holidays in Sud, 2026

Shops and offices may close and transport may run reduced timetables on these dates. Source: python-holidays (MIT).

Nationwide in Haiti

1 Jan · National Independence Day1 Jan · New Year's Day2 Jan · Ancestry Day15 Feb · Carnival16 Feb · Shrove Monday17 Feb · Fat Tuesday3 Apr · Good Friday5 Apr · Easter Sunday1 May · Agriculture and Labor Day18 May · Flag Day and University Day4 Jun · Corpus Christi15 Aug · Assumption Day17 Oct · Death of Dessalines1 Nov · All Saints' Day2 Nov · Day of the Dead18 Nov · Armed Forces Day18 Nov · Commemoration of the Battle of Vertieres25 Dec · Christmas Day

Nearby

Regions near Sud

Other regions of Haiti with a page in this guide, nearest first by the straight-line distance between the median positions of their destinations.

Haiti travel guide · All regions of Haiti

Sources: destinations and their regions from Wikidata; airports from OurAirports; climate from CRU TS v4.10 (University of East Anglia, ODbL); public holidays from python-holidays (MIT). A region has a page here when at least 3 destinations of this guide lie in it. How this guide is made.