Hotels in North Goa

North Goa

North Goa is known and loved as a land of golden beaches, palm trees, paddy fields and wooded hills. It is surrounded by Churches, Temples, Shrines and forts with its Historic facts. The North Goa District has an area of 1736 Sq. Km. Its geographical position is marked by 15o 48’ 00” N to 14o 53’ 54” N latitudes and 73o E to 75o E longitudes. North Goa shares its boundaries with the Sawantwadi & Dodamarg, of Ratnagiri District and Kolhapur District of Maharastra state.

The climate is moist throughout the year. Other features of the climate are the regular and sufficient rainfall of 320cm during the southwest monsoon season, mainly from June to September. The climate is generally pleasant. Discomfort may be felt in the absence of wind particularly during pre-monsoon and post-monsoon months. Temperature variations through the seasons are also slight. May is the relatively warmest month when the mean daily temperature is around 30 degrees C and January the coolest with mean daily temperature at slightly lower value of about 25 degrees C. Along the coast the maximum temperature recorded rarely goes beyond 37 degrees C.

North Goa is surrounded by a long coastline with well known beaches like Miramar Beach, Dona Paula Beach, Vainguinim Beach, Sinquerim and Candolim Beach, Calangute and Baga Beach, Anjuna Beach, Chapora & Vagator Beach and Arambol Beach.

Lakes constitute a scenic feature in Goa, though most of them have a limited and local use for irrigation. The important lakes of North Goa are Mayem, Chimbel, Carambolim & Calapur.

The Language Known by the Goans are Konkani, Marathi, Hindi, English & Portuguese.