BahamasIsland

Inagua

1,679 km² of land in the Atlantic Ocean.

Matthew Town

Satellite: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX (CC BY 4.0). Outline and points © OpenStreetMap contributors / Natural Earth. North up.

In numbers

1,679km²

Area

223km

Coastline

measured on a simplified outline

33m

Highest point

29°C

Warmest sea

September

814km

To the mainland

When to go to Inagua

Best for the beach from December to April.

The sea is warmest in September (29 °C) and coolest in March (26 °C). You can swim comfortably all year (21 °C or more).

26°26°25°

Jan8

26°26°25°

Feb6

26°26°25°

Mar7

26°27°25°

Apr8

27°28°26°

May15

28°28°27°

Jun14

28°29°28°

Jul12

29°29°28°

Aug16

29°29°28°

Sep19

29°29°28°

Oct20

28°28°27°

Nov15

27°27°26°

Dec10

Sea temperature (the water level) Air: night low to afternoon high Wet days Best months

Averages 1991–2020. Sea: NOAA OISST, the water within 35 km of the coast. Air, rain and sun: NASA POWER. Best months weigh warm afternoons (23–30 °C), sea of 24 °C or more and few wet days.

Island

Inagua is an island in Bahamas. It covers 1,679 km², with 223 km of coastline. Its highest point rises to 33 m. The nearest mainland is 814 km away.

Getting there

Inagua Airport (IGA)airport on the island, with scheduled flightsCar hire at PLS airport (Providenciales)Discover Cars · Affiliate link
Ferries1 ferry terminals on the island
814 km from the mainlanddistance to the nearest continental coast
From December to Aprilbest months to go (from 30 years of averages)

Plan the trip

Ferries, stays and things to do

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On the island

What you find on Inagua.

4beachesFarquharson Beach and 3 more
1lighthousesGreat Inagua Light
1ferry terminalsMailboat United Star
2marinasMathew Town Port
3named peaksEast Hill, Mortimers Hill, Saltpond Hill
6ruins and archaeological sitesBank Of The Bahamas (disused) and 5 more
2hotels, guesthouses and apartments
1restaurants, cafés and bars

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit, inside the island's outline. A low number may only mean nobody has mapped it yet.

Cross-checked with our atlases

Inagua in our other atlases

Everything Coastya, Peakyas, Lakeyas and Cascadyas know about what lies inside Inagua, each with its own numbers.

3beaches and covesCoastya
1lakeLakeyas

Largest lake
162km²
Lake Rosa
according to Lakeyas
Warmest lake
29.4°C
Lake Rosa
surface water, warmest month · according to Lakeyas
Beach with the warmest sea
29.0°C
Dead Mans Bay
sea in the warmest month · according to Coastya

3 beaches

on Coastya, the beach atlas

Mangrove Covecove29.0°C
Dead Mans Baycove29.0°C
Calm Covecove29.0°C

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1 lakes

on Lakeyas, the lake atlas

Lake Rosa162km²

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The shape of the land.

On average the island stands 2 m above the sea. 100 % of it is below 200 m.

100 %0–50 m

Share of the island's area in each altitude band, from the Copernicus DEM (30 m, read at 30–240 m on large islands).

Size, for real

Next to islands you may know.

Inagua1,679 km²

Tenerife2,038 km²

Long Island3,529 km²

50 km

All outlines drawn to the same scale (Natural Earth and OpenStreetMap).

Towns on the island

Matthew Town452 people

Month by month

The weather on the island.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Afternoon high (°C)	26	26	26	27	28	28	29	29	29	29	28	27
Night low (°C)	25	25	25	25	26	27	28	28	28	28	27	26
Sea (°C)	26	26	26	26	27	28	28	29	29	29	28	27
Rain (mm)	38	22	28	36	83	64	41	58	87	122	81	39
Wet days	8	6	7	8	15	14	12	16	19	20	15	10
Sun h/day	7.1	8.1	8.6	9.3	8.6	8.8	9.5	9.1	8.2	7.2	6.9	7.0
Wind (km/h)	26	26	25	24	23	24	28	26	20	21	24	27

Averages 1991–2020 for the ~55 km NASA POWER cell over the island; the sea from NOAA OISST.

Recent years

Warmer and cooler years at sea.

Each month's sea temperature compared with its 1991–2020 average, in degrees.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2020	+0.4	+0.7	+0.3	+0.7	+1.2	+0.3	+0.7	+0.2	+0.3	+0.4	+0.2	+0.3
2021	+0.4	+0.4	+0.2	+0.2	+0.3	−0.2	±0.0	±0.0	+0.2	+0.3	+0.8	+0.7
2022	+0.8	+0.5	+0.8	+0.6	+0.6	+0.3	+0.2	+0.1	+0.2	+0.4	+0.6	+0.6
2023	+0.6	+0.2	+0.3	+0.5	+1.1	+0.8	+0.7	+1.0	+1.1	+1.4	+0.9	+0.7
2024	+0.5	+0.5	+0.9	+0.4	+0.7	+0.9	+0.9	+0.9	+1.0	+1.2	+0.4	+0.5
2025	+0.3	+0.3	+0.6	+0.4	+0.2	+0.2	+0.3	+0.4	+0.7	+0.7	+0.5	+1.3

+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual

Photos

Seen by visitors.

NorthShoreGreatInagua — Wilson44691 at English Wikipedia · Public domain

Morton Salt facilities, Great Inagua — Wilson44691 at English Wikipedia · Public domain

Matthew Town, Great Inagua, Bahamas — Mark A. Wilson (Department of Geology, The College of Wooster) · Public domain

Canal and reservoir ponds from Lighthouse. Inagua (38840146332) — Dr Mary Gillham Archive Project · CC BY 2.0

Nearby

More islands nearby.

Tortuga

Haiti180 km²459 m126 km away

Providenciales

United Kingdom116 km²49 m132 km away

West Caicos

Turks and Caicos Islands23 km²18 m108 km away

Mayaguana

Bahamas284 km²7 m150 km away

Acklins

Bahamas457 km²6 m167 km away

Pine Cay

Turks and Caicos Islands2.8 km²8 m152 km away

Crooked Island

Bahamas263 km²38 m209 km away

Ambergris Cay

Turks and Caicos Islands4.6 km²1 m173 km away

About these numbers

Names, area, population	Wikidata (Q1353668) · CC0
Outline	Natural Earth · public domain
Sea temperature	NOAA OISST v2.1 · 1991–2020
Climate	NASA POWER · 1991–2020
Relief, 3D model	Copernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Beaches, ports, lighthouses, trails	© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
Towns	GeoNames · CC BY 4.0
Images	EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Beaches, mountains, lakes and waterfalls	Coastya, Lakeyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST; HydroLAKES (Messager et al. 2016) · CC BY 4.0, LakeTEMP (Korver et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

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