Little Cayman
Fun Facts

add to Travel Bag (NEW)  

Little Cayman

Country: Cayman Islands

Little Cayman by the numbers:

Population: 170

Average February low temperature: 77 degrees F / 25 degrees C

Average July high temperature: 84 degrees F / 29 degrees C

Average wind: 9 mph / 14.48 km/h

Annual rainfall: 46 inches / 1.17 meters

Country dialing code: 1

Area code: 345

Area: 10 sq mi/ 16 sq km

Highest elevation: 40 feet / 13 meters

Quick Facts

Major Industries: Tourism, diving

Electricity: 110 volts, 50Hz, standard two pin plugs

Time Zone: GMT-5

Currency: Cayman Dollars, pegged to US Dollar ( KYD.80 = USD1 )

Did you know?

Columbus discovered Little Cayman ( and the other Caymans ) on his final voyage to the Americas in 1503.

Little Cayman is home to the largest population of Red-Footed Booby birds in the Caribbean.

Two of the world's most famed dive sites, Bloody Bay Wall and Jackson Wall, are right off the coast of Little Cayman.

To this day, Little Cayman remains a British Crown Colony.

Orientation:

Little Cayman sits in the Western Caribbean Sea, 482 miles ( 774 km ) south of Miami, 87 miles ( 141 km ) from Grand Cayman and just five miles ( eight km ) west of Cayman Brac.