Været i Marigot (French Saint Martin) i februar

Regulars are specific this counts as prime season here, genuinely little rain compared to the late-summer and fall stretch when tropical storms bring the real wet weather, sun the dominant feature of a typical day. Our row backs that hot, genuinely dry read, 29C reading as a hot 30C, over 23.6C nights feeling 23C, with rain light at 36.5mm across 9.2 days and a real 31.8 kph wind. Regulars are consistent the wind runs noticeably stronger this month, choppier water a real result even on an otherwise sunny day, afternoons themselves turning genuinely hot. The sea sits at a warm, swimmable 25.9C. The record: 10.7 hours of sun, humidity 77 percent and AQI 40.

St. Martin's forum describes September as generally sunny day after day, hot and humid, with scattered 20-30 minute showers - often at night - rather than sustained rain. It's also the height of hurricane season (August through October are the most active months), so travel insurance gets recommended repeatedly. Marigot's French-side restaurant scene thins out noticeably in September as many close for the month, though posters said there's still enough open to eat well, just without the full peak-season variety - the trade-off being a genuinely quiet, uncrowded month for whatever stays open.

Forum posters call early March a genuinely nice time weather-wise, though it lands squarely in peak season - the Heineken Regatta (March 6-9 in a recent year) and SXM Music Festival (March 12-16) bring real crowds, mostly concentrated around Simpson Bay rather than blanketing the whole island. Marigot itself, on the French side, is described as distinctly low-key and French rather than typical Caribbean-touristy - fine restaurants, sidewalk shopping and an open-air market, with posters specifically noting the absence of the T-shirt-shop hawking common elsewhere in the Caribbean. One-way traffic and general congestion in town are called out as a genuine annoyance worth planning around, and a short ferry ride over to nearby Anguilla (Shoal Bay specifically) is a commonly recommended day trip from Marigot.