Fly-in day trips from Anguilla

The picks

Hand-researched — the events worth planning a day around.

⛴ Ferry ★

Bastille Day fireworks and festivities

Marigot, French St Martin (also Gustavia, St Barths)

France's national day gets a proper Caribbean send-off - live music, food stalls along the waterfront and fireworks over the bay; the same night lights up Gustavia harbour on St Barths

Tue 14 Julbest Tue 14 Jul⛴ ~30 min

Getting there: Ferry Blowing Point-Marigot, 25 min, walk into town

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⛴ Ferry

Fête de Marigot / Bastille Day

Marigot, St-Martin

Parade, waterfront festivities, fireworks over the bay

Tue 14 Julbest Tue 14 Jul⛴ ~25 min

Getting there: ferry 25 min

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✈️ Fly

Statia Carnival

St Eustatius

Two-week carnival

Wed 15 Jul – Mon 27 Julbest last-lap jump-up ~27 Jul✈️ ~25 minany light (≤130nm)

Getting there: ~50nm/25 min

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⛴ Ferry

Grand Case Festival / Schoelcher Day

Grand Case, St-Martin

Boulevard parade, emancipation commemorations

Tue 21 Julbest Tue 21 Jul⛴ ~40 min

Getting there: 25 min + 15 min drive

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✈️ Fly

Nevis Culturama 52

Charlestown, Nevis

De Caribbean Greatest Summer Lime

Thu 23 Jul – Tue 4 Augbest Culturama Day 4 Aug✈️ ~30 minany light (≤130nm)

Getting there: ~65nm/30 min

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Antigua Carnival

St John's

The region's big summer carnival

Sat 25 Jul – Tue 4 Augbest J'ouvert ~3 Aug or Parade of Bands 4 Aug✈️ ~45 minany light (≤130nm)

Getting there: ~96nm/45 min

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✈️ Fly · TBM

Tour des Yoles Rondes

Martinique

The great sailing spectacle

Sun 26 Jul – Sun 2 Augbest Sun 2 Aug✈️ ~1h doorTBM only

Getting there: ~250nm → TFFF

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✈️ Fly

Fête des Cuisinières (110th)

Guadeloupe

Marquee Creole festival

Sat 8 Augbest Sat 8 Aug✈️ ~55 min doorSR22 (130-180nm)

Getting there: ~150nm → TFFR

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⛴ Ferry

Fete de Sandy Ground (Assumption Day village festival)

Sandy Ground, French St Martin (fishing village on Marigot's lagoon side - not to be confused with Anguilla's own Sandy Ground)

A genuinely local fixed-date fete (not a tourist event) with music, street food and community sports in one of St Martin's oldest fishing villages

Sat 15 Augbest Sat 15 Aug⛴ ~40 min

Getting there: Ferry Blowing Point-Marigot (25 min), then a short taxi/walk to the Sandy Ground district

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⛴ Ferry

Fête de Saint-Barthélemy

Gustavia, St Barth

Patron-saint day: regattas, fireworks on the quai

Mon 24 Augbest Mon 24 Aug⛴ ~60 min

Getting there: ~1h private boat

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Coming up nearby

Looking further ahead — pulled nightly from live listings on neighbouring islands.

Reachable from Anguilla

• Sint Maarten — ✈️ ~5 min (TNCM, 11 nm)
• St Kitts — ✈️ ~28 min (TKPK, 58 nm)
• British Virgin Islands — ✈️ ~41 min (TUPJ, 86 nm)
• Antigua — ✈️ ~47 min (TAPA, 97 nm)
• Montserrat — ✈️ ~47 min (TRPG, 99 nm)
• US Virgin Islands — ✈️ ~53 min (TIST, 110 nm)
• Dominica — ✈️ ~1 h 35 min (TDCF, 198 nm)
• St Lucia — ✈️ ~2 h 14 min (TLPC, 279 nm)
• Barbados — ✈️ ~2 h 58 min (TBPB, 371 nm)
• Grenada — ✈️ ~3 h 3 min (TGPY, 380 nm)
• Bonaire — ✈️ ~3 h 48 min (TNCB, 474 nm)
• Curacao — ✈️ ~3 h 59 min (TNCC, 498 nm)
• Aruba — ✈️ ~4 h 14 min (TNCA, 529 nm)
• Turks and Caicos — ✈️ ~4 h 30 min (MBPV, 562 nm)

Notes & what didn’t make it

NEGATIVES: Santo Domingo >300nm — out.

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