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North Sentinel Island

50.6 km² of land in the Bay of Bengal.

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

In numbers

50.6km²

Area

51km

Coastline

122m

Highest point

People

30°C

Warmest sea

April

529km

To the mainland

When to go to North Sentinel Island

Best for the beach from January to March.

The sea is warmest in April (30 °C) and coolest in January (28 °C). You can swim comfortably all year (21 °C or more).

28°28°26°

Jan5

28°28°26°

Feb2

29°29°27°

Mar4

30°30°29°

Apr10

30°30°29°

May26

29°29°28°

Jun27

29°28°28°

Jul29

28°28°28°

Aug29

28°28°28°

Sep27

29°28°28°

Oct24

29°29°28°

Nov19

28°28°27°

Dec11

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.

One of the Andaman Islands

North Sentinel Island is an island in India. It covers 50.6 km², with 51 km of coastline. Its highest point rises to 122 m. About 42 people live on it. The nearest mainland is 529 km away.

Getting there

Veer Savarkar International Airport / INS Utkrosh (IXZ)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 54 km in a straight lineCar hire at MAA airport (Chennai)Discover Cars · Affiliate link
529 km from the mainlanddistance to the nearest continental coast
From January to Marchbest 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 North Sentinel Island.

6beaches
1ruins and archaeological sitesTeepee

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

The shape of the land.

On average the island stands 48 m above the sea. 100 % of it is below 200 m.

54 %0–50 m
46 %50–200 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.

North Sentinel Island51 km²

Santorini76 km²

Manhattan54 km²

5 km

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

Month by month

The weather on the island.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Afternoon high (°C)	28	28	29	30	30	29	28	28	28	28	29	28
Night low (°C)	26	26	27	29	29	28	28	28	28	28	28	27
Sea (°C)	28	28	29	30	30	29	29	28	28	29	29	28
Rain (mm)	42	12	40	72	359	384	370	344	410	231	190	113
Wet days	5	2	4	10	26	27	29	29	27	24	19	11
Sun h/day	7.7	8.8	8.9	8.7	5.1	4.3	4.4	4.5	4.7	6.3	6.5	6.8
Wind (km/h)	19	16	12	10	19	27	27	27	22	16	18	20

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	+0.3	−0.1	±0.0	±0.0	+0.3	+0.6	+1.1	+1.1	+1.0	−0.2	±0.0	+0.2
2021	+0.4	−0.1	+0.5	+0.3	+1.0	+1.1	+0.6	+0.5	+0.3	+0.2	+0.2	+0.2
2022	+0.7	+0.5	+0.6	+0.9	+0.1	+0.4	+0.4	+0.3	+0.9	+0.3	+0.2	+0.1
2023	+0.2	+0.2	+0.3	+0.4	+0.6	+0.3	+0.2	+0.6	±0.0	+0.4	+0.9	+0.8
2024	+0.9	+0.7	+0.4	+1.1	+1.2	+0.7	+0.5	+1.1	+0.7	+0.8	+1.1	+0.7
2025	+0.6	+0.7	+0.6	−0.1	+0.2	+0.4	+0.5	+0.5	+0.4	+0.4	+0.4	+0.2

+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual

Nearby

More islands nearby.

South Andaman Island

India1,257 km²459 m51 km away

Baratang Island

India241 km²76 m86 km away

Little Andaman

India699 km²183 m94 km away

Swaraj Dweep

India92 km²167 m94 km away

Middle Andaman Island

India1,523 km²512 m123 km away

North Andaman Island

India1,307 km²960 m201 km away

Barren Island

India8.2 km²353 m193 km away

Car Nicobar Island

India126 km²10 m271 km away

About these numbers

Names, area, population	Wikidata (Q1260331) · CC0
Outline	© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
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

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

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