Bahamas

Climate and cost by city

Average monthly temperature and rainfall from Open-Meteo ERA5 (2019-2023 mean, CC BY 4.0). Sea surface temperature from Open-Meteo Marine. Price level from the World Bank ICP survey, same-year pairing, omitted where the survey does not cover the country.

Cost of living and lifestyle

Day to day, Bahamas costs about 96% of the US level, on a World Bank income of $40k per person (PPP, 2024).

That percentage is measured against your country, not against ours. It follows the country picker in the header, or your account if you are signed in. With neither, it falls back to the United States, which is the 100 of the World Bank index, and the sentence says so.

World Bank ICP price level (US=100) and GNI per capita PPP, CC BY 4.0. It is a national average: a capital runs above it and a small town below it.

Getting to Bahamas

Its main airport has non-stop service to 31 airports in the OpenFlights route database.

Airports and non-stop routes from OpenFlights (Open Database License). Fares and flight times are cached one-way economy prices from Travelpayouts, the cheapest seen recently rather than a live quote or an average. They move; treat them as an order of magnitude.

What to see in Bahamas

Ordered by how many people looked each place up over the last twelve months, so the list is measured interest and not our taste.

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  island

  New Providence

  9,004 readers a month look it up

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  island

  Pig Beach

  7,013 readers a month look it up

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  mountain

  Mount Alvernia

  700 readers a month look it up

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  lighthouse

  Great Isaac Lighthouse

  547 readers a month look it up

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  fort

  Fort Montagu

  426 readers a month look it up

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  national park

  Exuma Cays Land and Sea Park

  184 readers a month look it up

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  Catholic cathedral

  St. Francis Xavier Cathedral, Nassau

  104 readers a month look it up

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  museum

  Nassau Public Library

  100 readers a month look it up

The practical basics

• Local time…Eastern Standard Time (North America), America/Nassau
• CurrencyBSDISO 4217
• LanguagesEnglish
• PlugsA, B120/208 V 60 Hz
• UK travel adviceNo blanket warningFCDO, reviewed 2026-05-28
• Population403,033World Bank

Currency codes ISO 4217; plugs and voltage from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); time zone and flag from the countries-states-cities database (ODbL 1.0); travel advice from the UK FCDO (Open Government Licence v3).

How many people visit

Bahamas logged 1.8 million international arrivals in 2020, the last year the World Bank series covers. That is a pandemic year and it is not what a normal year looks like: in 2019 the same series counted 7.2 million.

World Bank indicator ST.INT.ARVL, international tourism arrivals, CC BY 4.0. Arrivals count trips, not people: the same visitor twice in a year counts twice.

Tax in Bahamas, in one line

Bahamas levies no personal income tax on residents. Capital gains: No capital gains tax.

Tax figures are compiled by us and are being re-verified against primary sources. General information, not tax advice.