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Saint Lucia
English · XCD · Updated
How it scores for living there
- 51%Cost of livingRated 3 of 5 for living there, workable
- 30%Income taxRated 3 of 5 for living there, workable
- NoneCapital gainsRated 5 of 5 for living there, ideal
- 35MbpsInternetRated 4 of 5 for living there, good
- 4.23Doctors /1,000Rated 5 of 5 for living there, ideal
- 10PM2.5 ug/m3Rated 3 of 5 for living there, workable
- 39Homicide /100kRated 1 of 5 for living there, bad
- 72.8Life expectancyRated 2 of 5 for living there, poor
- 68%People onlineRated 2 of 5 for living there, poor
- 59Corruption indexRated 4 of 5 for living there, good
- 12of 12Mild monthsRated 5 of 5 for living there, ideal
Facts, not judgements
- XCDCurrency
- EnglishLanguage
- 1.2mVisitors in 2019
Colour says whether a figure is good for someone moving in, not whether it is high: cheap is green and expensive is red. Every coloured box carries the reason for its colour, the bar under it repeats the score as a width, and boxes with no data are not drawn.
Nomads in Saint Lucia
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Who can help you in Saint Lucia
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Climate and cost by city
Sea off Saint Lucia: warmest September at 30°C, coolest February at 28°C.
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, Saint Lucia costs about 51% of the US level, on a World Bank income of $26k per person (PPP, 2025).
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 Saint Lucia
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 Saint Lucia
Ordered by how many people looked each place up over the last twelve months, so the list is measured interest and not our taste.
UNESCOmountain
Pitons
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island
Pigeon Island
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bay
Rodney Bay
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bay
Marigot Bay
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mountain
Mount Gimie
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cathedral
Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Castries
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mountain
Qualibou
286 readers a month look it up
botanical garden
St. Lucia Botanical Gardens
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Photo credits
- Pitons: Wikimedia Commons, CC BY SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Pigeon Island: P. Hughes, CC BY SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Rodney Bay: Vlad Podvorny, CC BY SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Marigot Bay: Charles J. Sharp, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Mount Gimie: MMinkenberg, CC BY SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Castries: Edgar El, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Qualibou: Trent Foley from Dallas, USA, CC BY SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- St. Lucia Botanical Gardens: XeresNelro, CC BY SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The practical basics
- CurrencyXCDISO 4217
- LanguagesEnglish
- Population180,149World 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
Saint Lucia logged 432,500 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 1.2 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 Saint Lucia, in one line
Personal income tax runs up to 30 per cent. Capital gains: No capital gains tax (capital gains are not taxed).
Tax figures are compiled by us and are being re-verified against primary sources. General information, not tax advice.
Data: World Bank, Open-Meteo, M-Lab, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, under open licences. General information, not tax or legal advice.