Aruba vs Barbados West Coast

Treasure Beach Art Hotel, Barbados, An Autograph Collection All-Inclusive Resort

Barbados West Coast6 resorts · ★ 4.3 average

Aruba and Barbados West Coast, side by side: live travel advisories, our resort catalog's real guest data, and each destination's honest weather picture. Everything you need to break the tie.

Aruba guide · Barbados West Coast guide · How we score

By the numbers

Aruba compared with Barbados West Coast
Aruba	Measure	Barbados West Coast
Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions	U.S. travel advisory	Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions
9 (better)	Resorts in our catalog	6
★ 4.4 (better)	Average guest rating	★ 4.3
$143–$332/night pp (better)	Nightly rates	$152–$249/night pp
2 of 9	Adults-only resorts	3 of 6
Outside the hurricane belt (better)	Hurricane exposure	Low hurricane risk
October–December, and 'rainy' is generous: this is one of the driest islands in the Caribbean	Rainy season	June–November, typically short heavy showers
Year-round; January–March is peak season and priced like it	Sweet spot	December–April

Advisory levels sync from travel.state.gov; catalog figures reflect the resorts we've researched, not every hotel in the country. A marked row is one we are willing to call; rows without a mark are a matter of taste, or we have no comparable figure for both sides.

On the map

Aruba

Barbados West Coast

Weather, month by month

Month-by-month average high temperature and rainfall for Aruba and Barbados West Coast
Measure	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Aruba · high °F	85	85	86	87	88	89	89	90	90	89	87	85
Barbados West Coast · high °F	83	83	84	86	87	87	87	88	88	87	86	84
Aruba · rain (in)	1.5	0.8	0.4	0.5	0.6	0.7	1.3	1.0	1.8	3.0	3.7	3.2
Barbados West Coast · rain (in)	2.6	1.6	1.3	1.4	2.3	4.4	5.8	5.8	6.7	7.0	6.1	3.8

Approximate climate normals for Palm Beach / Eagle Beach and Holetown (west coast): planning guidance, not a forecast. A deeper tint is a higher number, read within its own row.