What's on in Soufrière, Saint Lucia through the year

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

Nothing new starts in January.

Busy — one of its best months for weather

Nothing new starts in February.

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

Nothing new starts in March.

Busy — one of its best months for weather

• Festival

  Saint Lucia Jazz and Arts Festival

  25 Apr – 12 May · usuallyMajor festivalBook early

  Ten days of music staged around the island at the end of the dry season, with side events reaching the west coast villages. It is the one time outside winter that the south of the island books out. Source ↗

Shoulder season — an ordinary month

Nothing new starts in May.

Still on: Saint Lucia Jazz and Arts Festival (25 Apr – 12 May (usually))

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

• Hazard

  Atlantic hurricane season

  1 Jun – 30 Nov

  Beryl came through at the end of June 2024 and Tomas before it, and the steep ground behind the town is what turns a tropical storm into landslides and blocked roads. Mid-August to mid-October is the concentrated part. Source ↗

Busy — Saint Lucia Carnival, school holidays in 3 of the markets that fill it

• Festival

  Saint Lucia Carnival

  1–22 JulCrowdedBook early

  Saint Lucia moved its carnival off Lent and into July, so the build-up runs most of the month and the parade days land in the middle. The staging is in Castries, but the island travels for it and the buses go with them. Source ↗

Still on: Atlantic hurricane season (1 Jun – 30 Nov)

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

• Festival

  La Rose flower festival

  28 Aug – 1 SepMajor festival

  One of the island's two flower societies takes 30 August, dresses in red and processes with song from church to feast. Its rival in white, La Marguerite, gets 17 October, and villages keep to one side or the other. Source ↗

Still on: Atlantic hurricane season (1 Jun – 30 Nov)

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: Atlantic hurricane season (1 Jun – 30 Nov), La Rose flower festival (28 Aug – 1 Sep)

Busy — Creole Heritage Month

• Festival

  Creole Heritage Month

  1–31 OctMajor festivalCrowded

  October is given over to Kweyol: food, language and music events across the island, ending on Jounen Kweyol when chosen villages cook and play all day. Soufriere and the fishing towns round it are often among them. Source ↗

Still on: Atlantic hurricane season (1 Jun – 30 Nov)

Quiet — one of its worst months for weather

Nothing new starts in November.

Still on: Atlantic hurricane season (1 Jun – 30 Nov)

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

Nothing new starts in December.