What is the average temperture in the evenings on Bonaire?

around 78-82 F..sometimes you need a jacket if it is windy..

Thanks, Michael. My husband and I were just trying to figure out what to pack for our 1st trip to Bonaire. Does it get much lower than that? It's 66 where I'm at right now and feels more like a heat wave, having just come out of winter.

April, my wife, Diane freezes all the time at home! In all the years we have been going to Bonaire she has never complained about the evening temps. Bring a light windbreaker, and I dought you will use it. Seeya friday the 9th... Ron

Thanks, Ron. And looking forward to Friday the 9th. I have marked 6:30pm at Bobbejan's. Is that correct still?

The temperature here will get as low as 24 degrees late at night in midwinter. That's about 76 degrees in weird units. Dress for the tropics. If you are out on the shore at night, sometimes a windbreaker might be nice.

"weird units" ... that made me smile, Kevin.

Sounds like a light weight jacket should be packed, but might never leave our suitcases ... which is fine with me.

I still do not understand how anyone can get "chilled" on Bonaire...lol...Maybe if I ever get through "M" I'll find out...or maybe not as before "M" I was still hot all the time...lol...

I friend who lives on Bonaire would tell me how cold she would get at night. Sleeps under a goosedown comforter, and would wear flannel PJ's. She would tell me that the night time temp was 22 c or 72- 74 f. I would laugh as our airconditoner would be set lower than that & I would have just a light weight quilt over me. It wasn't till we started staying longer than 2 weeks, that I noticed how chilly I would get while out at night. One thing I never figured in was the wind chill factor. Even at 76, figure in a good easterly breeze and the goose bumps would pop up. I stopped laughing at her. I found the longer you stay the more accustomed you get to the warmth, and you tend to cool off quicker than someone who just came from snow & ice.

A light sweater, sweatshirt or a pullover wind shirt does the trick.

Jan, I've been there for over 2 weeks, and still am a sweating heap! lol! I think I need to do a trial and stay for oh...three or four months to see if I would get used to it and get chilled...yep, that's what I need to do.

I also have friends on island that get "chilled" in the winter...whatEVER...lol!

Once when we came down and met the BT group at Gibie's and we sat outside, Jake R.and some other's had sweatshirts on! We had just arrived and I was "How could you wear that"?.I was not cold at all.
They explained to me that the temperature was a few degree's lower than ususal and with the windchill, it made them chilly because living and aclimating to the temperatures on Bonaire that they feel it,even when the temperatures changes a few degrees.
People from the north feel the hot temperatures more when they travel south,than people from the warmer climits and visa versa.
I have only to use a sweater on the plane going home, especially if we are staying for a few weeks.
I like the warm wind blowing, it never gets cold on Bonaire,it's too close to the equator.
I didn't understand the need for a wetsuit to keep warm, either until I learned how to dive and realized the longer and more frequent I was diving, the heavier of a dive suit I needed as the weeks went on.
Our human bodies learn how to aclimate.
Although with "M" it plain dosen't matter, always hot,love that wind.

When I ran the hotel, I could barely stand to go into guest rooms, because we kept the AC at 25 for guests. That cool and dry felt freezing to me.

When you go a few years in this environment without AC, you really do reset. I keep an AC in my bedroom, but it's set to 29. That's 84 degrees Fahrenheit. That's just enough to keep the humidity down so that my clothes don't get musty.

Ok, I'm convinced now, I don't need to spend 3 months to see if I get aclimated, I need to move there...lol!

Kevin, you would have kicked me out of the GE..lol ;-)

I do know that when I lived in DC, and would come visit my family in Phoenix, 60F felt like 90F to me, to them, it was like 30F...so I do know that the body adjusts

Jan
I can relate to your friend,, I live in the desert and when I go to SoCal it can get chilly. I go up to Northern Calif in the winter and I can never get warm with all the winter dampness.

On my first trip to Bonaire one of the first things I notices while boat diving was the thickness of the dm's wet suit!

Well, I am glad to hear I am not the only who gets "cold" on Bonaire. Hubby thinks I have something wrong with my blood. LOL! But, in Feb., we stay for three weeks, and yes, nights can give goosebumps if there is a lot of wind going on.

Me three Debbie. When we were there in MArch I was cold even though I brought and wore long pants and long sleeve shirts. I wore al teast 5 mm worth of wetsuits and hoods but it didn't matter. Thelast dive of the trip I was freezing within 9 minutes.

I think I wouldn't need any extra covers in Bonaire, it was sunny and 14 degrees C last week and I went for a walk around Hannover with just a T-shirt on top, and Sunday was sunbathing in the garden when the temp peaked at 22 degrees C !!! I think I'd enjoy the windchill at Lac Bay