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Cruise passengers enter Honduras under a named permission with a time limit written into it. The visa position for everyone else depends on the passport you hold, and the most quotable sentence on the subject does not apply to American readers.
This page gives no temperature and no rainfall figure, because no source in this cluster publishes one for the island. What it can tell you is which country-level warnings do not apply here.
Honduras uses the lempira, but US dollars are widely accepted here, which makes Roatan one of the easier port calls for an American traveler. The official advice about cash machines names Roatan specifically.
Packing for a port call is a different exercise from packing for a week. The one item this island genuinely argues for is insect repellent, and the reason is in the health advice rather than the comfort advice.
Roatan is long, narrow and served by one main road. The official advice about moving around it is unusually specific, and it names this island rather than the country.
The Bay Islands have a history distinct from the Honduran mainland, and English is widely spoken on them. That is a fact about history rather than a permission to skip the language entirely.
Roatan eats from the sea it sits in. What this page can source is the water advice and the shape of the island fishery; what it will not do is recommend a restaurant it has no basis to recommend.
Roatan suits an unhurried visit well, because the reef is close to shore and the best of it needs no exertion. The question to settle before the itinerary is the medical one.
The cruise terminal is the most accessible part of Roatan by some distance. Beyond it the island is steep, unpaved in places and served by small boats, and the limits on emergency medicine matter more here than the curb heights do.
Honduras has two World Heritage properties and four more on its Tentative List. Neither inscribed property is on Roatan, and neither is reachable on a port call. That is a more useful thing to know than a vague promise of heritage ashore.