What's on in Shoal Bay (Shoal Bay East), Anguilla through the year

Busy — Winter high season, school holidays in 3 of the markets that fill it

Nothing new starts in January.

Still on: Winter high season (15 Dec – 15 Apr (usually))

Busy — Winter high season

Nothing new starts in February.

Still on: Winter high season (15 Dec – 15 Apr (usually))

Peak crowds — Moonsplash, Winter high season

• Festival

  Moonsplash

  5–8 MarMusic festivalCrowdedBook early

  Bankie Banx's reggae festival at the Dune Preserve on Rendezvous Bay, timed to the full moon. It is the island's best-known music weekend and fills rooms in what is already high season. Source ↗

• Festival

  Festival Del Mar

  20 Mar – 26 Apr · usuallyFood & drink festival

  Easter Saturday and Sunday in the fishing village of Island Harbour, a short drive from Shoal Bay: boat races, swimming and crab races, and a lot of fish cooked on the waterfront. Source ↗

Still on: Winter high season (15 Dec – 15 Apr (usually))

Busy — Winter high season

• Nature

  Turtle nesting season

  1 Apr – 30 Nov · usually

  Leatherback, green and hawksbill turtles come ashore on Anguilla's quieter beaches through the warmer months. Keep lights off the sand at night and give marked nests room. Source ↗

Still on: Moonsplash (5–8 Mar), Festival Del Mar (20 Mar – 26 Apr (usually)), Winter high season (15 Dec – 15 Apr (usually))

Shoulder season — an ordinary month

Nothing new starts in May.

Still on: Turtle nesting season (1 Apr – 30 Nov (usually))

Shoulder season — school holidays in 3 of the markets that fill it, an ordinary month

• Hazard

  Hurricane season

  1 Jun – 30 NovClosures

  The risk peaks from mid-August to early October. Anguilla is flat and exposed, Irma levelled much of it in 2017, and a watch stops the ferries from St Martin; several beach hotels close outright in September. Source ↗

Still on: Turtle nesting season (1 Apr – 30 Nov (usually))

Busy — Anguilla Summer Festival, school holidays in 3 of the markets that fill it

• Festival

  Anguilla Summer Festival

  24 Jul – 10 Aug · usuallyCarnivalCrowdedBook early

  The island's carnival builds to August Monday, the emancipation holiday, with J'ouvert, the parade of troupes and above all the sloop races sailed off the beaches. Anguillians abroad fly home for it. Source ↗

Still on: Turtle nesting season (1 Apr – 30 Nov (usually)), Hurricane season (1 Jun – 30 Nov)

Busy — Anguilla Summer Festival, school holidays in 3 of the markets that fill it

Nothing new starts in August.

Still on: Turtle nesting season (1 Apr – 30 Nov (usually)), Hurricane season (1 Jun – 30 Nov), Anguilla Summer Festival (24 Jul – 10 Aug (usually))

Quiet — school holidays in 2 of the markets that fill it, one of its worst months for weather

Nothing new starts in September.

Still on: Turtle nesting season (1 Apr – 30 Nov (usually)), Hurricane season (1 Jun – 30 Nov)

Quiet — one of its worst months for weather

Nothing new starts in October.

Still on: Turtle nesting season (1 Apr – 30 Nov (usually)), Hurricane season (1 Jun – 30 Nov)

Quiet — one of its worst months for weather

Nothing new starts in November.

Still on: Turtle nesting season (1 Apr – 30 Nov (usually)), Hurricane season (1 Jun – 30 Nov)

Busy — Winter high season, school holidays in 3 of the markets that fill it

• Season

  Winter high season

  15 Dec – 15 Apr · usuallyWinter-sun seasonCrowdedBook early

  North American winter is when Anguilla's villas and the restaurants along Shoal Bay run at capacity and rates peak. The sea is at its calmest for snorkelling the reef off the beach. Source ↗