Playa Flamenco
Playa Flamenco is a 1.4 km-long sandy beach facing north, 3.7 km north-west of Culebra (United States). The sea averages 28.9 °C in September, its warmest month, and 26.2 °C in February; it stays at 21 °C or above all year.
Average sea surface temperature by month. Current month outlined.
Reference
Flamenco Beach is a public beach on an open bay connected to the North Atlantic Ocean in northwestern Culebra, an island-municipality of Puerto Rico, part of the Spanish Virgin Islands in the Leeward Islands of the Lesser Antilles in the West Indies of the Caribbean.
Wikidata item Q5457193.
Month by month
October at Playa Flamenco
Beach-day index 8.1/10 · United States median 4.5
| Measure | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sea °C | 26.5 °C | 26.2 °C | 26.2 °C | 26.7 °C | 27.4 °C | 28.0 °C | 28.2 °C | 28.6 °C | 28.9 °C | 28.9 °C | 28.3 °C | 27.3 °C |
| High °C | 26° | 26° | 26° | 27° | 28° | 28° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 28° | 27° |
| Low °C | 26° | 25° | 25° | 26° | 27° | 28° | 28° | 28° | 28° | 28° | 27° | 26° |
| Rain mm | 40 | 29 | 38 | 54 | 99 | 73 | 88 | 113 | 146 | 142 | 122 | 59 |
| Cloud % | 46 | 42 | 46 | 48 | 63 | 63 | 55 | 54 | 58 | 58 | 54 | 48 |
| Wind m/s | 6.6 | 6.7 | 6.1 | 5.9 | 6.1 | 6.3 | 7.0 | 6.4 | 5.2 | 5.3 | 5.8 | 6.8 |
| Daylight h | 11.1 | 11.5 | 12.0 | 12.5 | 13.0 | 13.2 | 13.1 | 12.8 | 12.3 | 11.8 | 11.3 | 11.0 |
| Record high/low | 28°/23° | 28°/23° | 29°/23° | 29°/24° | 30°/25° | 30°/26° | 30°/27° | 30°/27° | 30°/26° | 30°/26° | 29°/25° | 29°/24° |
| Beach index | 8.8 | 8.9 | 8.9 | 8.8 | 8.2 | 8.4 | 8.2 | 8.2 | 8.1 | 8.1 | 8.2 | 8.6 |
Long-term monthly averages: air from NASA POWER (2001–2020), sea from NOAA OISST (1991–2020); records are the extremes of 2001–2020. How the index works.
When to go
The beach-day index peaks in June and December–April; February scores 8.9/10 with highs of 26 °C, sea at 26.2 °C and 29 mm of rain.
In February that is 6.2 points above the median of the 2,466 beaches in United States covered by this atlas.
At its warmest the water here is 8.0 °C warmer than the United States median for September (20.9 °C).
Across the year the sea averages 27.6 °C, warmer than 86% of the coastal beaches in the atlas.
September is the wettest month (146 mm) and February the driest (29 mm); the yearly total is about 1,000 mm.
Daylight runs from 11.0 hours in December to 13.2 hours in June; in mid-February the sun rises at 06:49 and sets at 18:21 local time.
Orientation, sun and shore
The shore faces north (0°). Open water fills about 36% of the horizon close by, which makes it an open stretch of shore.
The sun sets over the sea in June; in mid-June it goes down at 18:57 local time on a bearing of 295°.
Sunrise is over the sea in June.
Straight out to the north there is open water for more than 2,000 km, so the beach is exposed to long ocean swell. The beach is on an island of about 27 km².
About 1 km offshore the sea is roughly 13 m deep and 25 m at 3 km. Behind the beach the ground is about 10 m above sea level 500 m inland and 21 m at 1.5 km.
Within 1 km, the land is 82% tree cover and 12% grassland (satellite land-cover map, 2021): a largely natural setting. Water makes up 51% of that circle.
- Tree 82%
- Grass 12%
Land cover: ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m). Orientation from OpenStreetMap land polygons sampled in 36 directions; depths and heights from the GEBCO 2020 grid (about 450 m cells), indicative only.
Average wind speed at 10 m reaches 7.0 m/s in July, the windiest month.
OpenStreetMap shows no lifeguard station within 1 km. Seasonal lifeguard posts are often unmapped, so check on site.
Photos
From above
Facilities within 1 km
- 1Restaurants, cafés & bars
- 1Public toilets
- –Showers
- 2Car parks
- –Lifeguard stations
- 3Hotels & guesthouses
- 5Campsites
Food and drink mapped within 1 km: 1 restaurant. Accommodation: 3 hotels and guesthouses.
Counted within 1 km of the beach (bus stops 1.5 km) from OpenStreetMap features and Overture Maps places, release of 2026-10. Unmapped does not mean absent.
Around the beach
Campsites
- Playa Flamenco Area C 50 m SW
- Playa Flamenco Area D 90 m NW
- Playa Flamenco Area B 110 m S
- Playa Flamenco Area A 190 m S
- Playa Flamenco Area E 300 m NW
Getting there
| Airport | Code | Distance | Direction |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benjamin Rivera Noriega Airport Culebra | CPX | 2.6 km | south-east |
| Antonio Rivera Rodriguez Airport Vieques | VQS | 28.7 km | south-west |
| José Aponte de la Torre Airport Ceiba | NRR | 35.2 km | west |
Straight-line distances from the beach; road distance is usually 20–40% longer.
Local transport: 2 mapped car parks within 1 km.
1 town or village of 1,000+ people lie within 10 km (about 1.5K residents); within 30 km there are 2 (about 10.8K).
When people look it up
The EN Wikipedia article was read 12,550 times in the 12 months to August 2026. Interest peaks in February (1,425 views), 2.2× the quietest month.
Map
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Data on this page
- Air temperature, rain, cloud, wind, humidity: NASA POWER climatology 2001–2020, 0.5° grid.
- Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 monthly normals 1991–2020, nearest ocean cell 7.7 km away.
- Beach outline, surface, rules and public facilities: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), feature w426695438; restaurants, cafés, bars and lodging: Overture Maps places (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).
- Water body, status and length: Wikidata (CC0).
- Towns and time zone: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Airports: OurAirports (public domain). Sunrise and sunset: NOAA solar equations.
- Photos: Wikimedia Commons, author and licence under each image.
- Satellite view: Copernicus Sentinel-2 (ESA), scene S2B_19QHA_20230313_0_L2A.
- Orientation: OpenStreetMap land polygons (ODbL). Depth and terrain: GEBCO 2020 grid.
- Settlements: GeoNames places with 1,000+ inhabitants.
- Land cover: ESA WorldCover 2021, 10 m (CC BY 4.0).
- Search popularity: about 260 Google searches a month for the name (KeywordTool, October 2026).
Data compiled 2026-10-13. Something wrong? Report a data error.