Distillers Country guides / Guadeloupe
Guadeloupe
A one-page guide to Guadeloupe for the spirits trade: the country, its people, its economy and how it drinks.
At a glance
- Capital
- Basse-Terre (prefecture); Pointe-a-Pitre is the largest city
- Official languages
- French
- Currency
- Euro (EUR)
- Time zone
- UTC-4 (AST)
Climate
Tropical, tempered by the sea and trade winds. Dry season ('Lent') January to June, wet season July to December. Mean daily maxima 29.1 C (January) to 31.6 C (August); minima 19.9 C to 23.8 C; about 1,779 mm of rain a year. Hurricane risk in the wet season.
Alcohol
- Alcohol is
- Legal
- Alcohol per adult a year
- 9.63 litres of pure alcohol (2022)
- Traditional drinks
- Rhum agricole (cane-juice rum)
Sources: World Bank (population, economy and demographics), WHO Global Health Observatory (alcohol per adult and drinking mix); Wikipedia - Guadeloupe; Wikipedia - Rhum agricole; Zolltarifnummern 2026 - EU tariff code 2208 40 31; French customs circular DA 23-011 - rum and spirits taxation in the DOM. Figures are the latest each source publishes; the year is shown beside each one.