Charlotte Amalie West, U.S. Virgin Islands

Charlotte Amalie West
Charlotte Amalie West
Census-Designated Place
	Charlotte Amalie West Location within the United States Virgin Islands
	Coordinates: 18°21′N 64°57′W / 18.350°N 64.950°W
Country	United States
Territory	U.S. Virgin Islands
Island	Saint Thomas
Population (2020)
• Total	4,404
ZIP code	00801, 00802, 00803, 00804
Area code	340
Major routes

Charlotte Amalie West is a Census-Designated Place (CDP) in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands on the west side of the island. It is the third largest town or census-designated place (CDP) in the U.S. Virgin Islands (after Charlotte Amalie and Anna's Retreat). Together with the town of Charlotte Amalie and the census-designated place (CDP) Charlotte Amalie East, Charlotte Amalie West make up the subdistrict (or "the City") Charlotte Amalie^[2]

Charlotte Amalie West is the transportion and industrial area of the island of St. Thomas. Within Charlotte Amalie West is one of the two airports in the US Virgin Islands, the Crown Bay cargo container port and cruise port, the VITRAN (Virgin Island Public Transit) bus depot, ferry docks for surrounding islands, and Randolph Harley Power Plant operated by the Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority (WAPA) for the St. Thomas-St. John district.

Transportation

Cyril E. King Airport (IATA: STT ICAO: TIST) is the busiest airport in the [[Virgin Islands}|Virgin Islands archipelago]] and second busiest in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands archipelago behind only the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in Carolina, Puerto Rico for total passengers served per year. It offers regular nonstop service to destinations to Chicago, Houston, San Juan and along the east coast of the United States.

Charlotte Amalie West also holds one of the two cruise ports in St. Thomas, the other being Havensight in Charlotte Amalie East. The Crown Bay cruise port has space for 2 large cruise ships as well as on port shopping center.

Education

St. Thomas-St. John School District operates public schools.

Elementary Schools:

Ulla F. Muller Elementary School

Parochial and Private Schools:

Moravian School

Universities and Colleges: The University of the Virgin Islands, Orville E. Kean Campus, was founded in 1962. The University of the Virgin Islands provides higher education leading to associate's, bachelor's, master's and PhD degrees, with campuses on St. Thomas and St. Croix.

Sports

The University of the Virgin Islands (UVI) Buccaneers men's and Lady Buccaneers women's athletics teams since 2016 has participated in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) college athletics association for colleges and universities in North America. This membership marked a significant step in expanding UVI's athletic program, allowing its teams to compete at a national level against other colleges and universities in various sports. On of July 1, 2023, UVI athletics took another big step and became a member of the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference (GCAC), now the HBCU Athletic Conference (HBCUAC). The university currently competes in three sports, basketball, cross country, and track & field for both men and women.

The UVI men's and women's basketball teams play their home games at the Elridge Wilburn Blake Sports and Fitness Center on the UVI Orville E. Kean Campus. The facility is an indoor sporting arena with a capacity of 3,000 people (the largest on the island).^[3]

The arena also serves as the host venue for the United States Virgin Islands Paradise Jam, an in-season college basketball exempt multiple-team event (MTE) tournament.^[4]

Climate

Climate data for Charlotte Amalie West
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Mean daily maximum °F (°C)	86 (30)	86 (30)	86 (30)	88 (31)	88 (31)	90 (32)	90 (32)	91 (33)	90 (32)	90 (32)	88 (31)	86 (30)	88 (31)
Mean daily minimum °F (°C)	72 (22)	72 (22)	72 (22)	74 (23)	76 (24)	77 (25)	78 (26)	78 (26)	77 (25)	76 (24)	75 (24)	73 (23)	75 (24)
Average precipitation inches (mm)	1.89 (48)	1.51 (38)	1.52 (39)	2.39 (61)	3.36 (85)	2.35 (60)	2.42 (61)	3.50 (89)	5.34 (136)	5.57 (141)	5.28 (134)	2.74 (70)	37.87 (962)
Source: ^[5]