Howdy,
We live in central florida and the winters are great here!!!
Hurricane season officially ends the last day of November, so it's best to wait until at least close to that date. Even though a lot of hurricanes pass by Florida, they do hit the tropical islands that people cruise to all the time.
We have done 7
DCL cruises. We have gone in December, March, January, May. December was our favorite time to go. The weather was beautiful, the rainy season is over so the humidity is all gone too. Sometimes at the port it may be a little cool, but as soon as you start to head towards the islands the temperature rises to mid 80's in the winter with a breeze. It's fantastic!!!
Sometimes the ocean is a little cool in December for swiming at
Castaway Cay. But not too bad. Just depends on what you like for temperature. We have done 3 cruises in December and are going again this December and only once it was too cool to get in the water for us, although others were swimming. All of the islands can be windy year round, so that really does not matter when you sail for the wind, it's the same all year long. One bonus for going after Thanksgiving to January 4 or 5 is the ship is decorated for the holidays. The atrium is gorgeous, they have a large tree and garlands. The first night they have a tree lighting ceremony where you sing carols and characters arrive, Santa Goofy comes and then when the tree lights uo it starts snowing in the atrium!! It's great.
We dont sail in th esummer for2 main reasons. 1 of course is the threat of hurricanes, 2 is it's way too hot with all the humidity!! We get a lot of that here in Florida all summer, but it's worse on the tropical islands and it dumps rain almost every afternoon.
Hope this helps a little.
We are originally fromt he west coast too. Oregon
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