Kingston
Kingston
JamaicaAw
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About
Kingston is the capital and largest city of Jamaica, located on the southeastern coast of the island. It faces a natural harbour protected by the Palisadoes, a long sand spit which connects the town of Port Royal and Norman Manley International Airport to the rest of the island. Kingston is the largest English-speaking city south of the United States in the Western Hemisphere.
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The next week in Kingston
7-day forecast from Open-Meteo. UV badges flag days when sun protection matters (3 and above is moderate; 8 and above is risk territory for unprotected fair skin within 30 minutes).
Today
Clear
32° / 23°
UV Very high
Sat
Drizzle
31° / 23°
2.2 mm
UV Very high
Sun
Partly cloudy
32° / 23°
UV Very high
Mon
Drizzle
32° / 24°
UV Very high
Tue
Drizzle
31° / 24°
1.2 mm
UV Very high
Wed
Drizzle
32° / 24°
1.8 mm
UV Very high
In May 16
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Air quality
No monitoring station within 25 km.
Weather
32° / 24°
Typical high / low
4 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
13.0h
05:34 – 18:32local
Year-round climate
Monthly highs, lows, and rainfall (long-term averages, NASA POWER).
Airports near Kingston
3 commercial airports within 100 km. Closest is Tinson Pen Airport (KTP) at 4 km.
Getting around Kingston
Public-transit operators within 8 km of the city center. Click through to each operator’s site for routes, fares, and tickets.
Local transit operators
Operators and modes aggregated by TransitLand from individual transit-agency GTFS feeds. Route classifications (subway / tram / rail / bus / etc) come from each feed’s GTFS route_type codes.
Sister cities
Sources
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- Wikipedia →
Summary, canonical article, and some image fallbacks.
- Wikidata →
Population, area, image, coordinates, and linked identifiers where available.
- NASA POWER →
Monthly temperature and rainfall climatology.
- Open-Meteo historical weather →
1991-2020 temperature and precipitation cross-check for compact climate fields.
- Open-Elevation →
Coordinate-based elevation backfill.
- tz database →
Coordinate-based IANA timezone lookup.
- Site credits →
Global source notes, map tiles, flags, licenses, and attribution policy.