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HONOLULU · JANUARY · 21.3° N January in Honolulu runs at 80.5°F by day and 66.8°F at night, with 1.84 inches of rain across the whole month at the airport gauge. The ocean off the south shore averages 77.3°F, warmer than the air you walk back into after a swim. A week here needs a … Read more
HONOLULU · SEPTEMBER · 21.3° N September in Honolulu reads 88.4°F by day and 74.8°F before dawn, with 0.88 inches of rain across the whole month. The sea off the south shore averages 80.5°F. Nothing in that set asks for a jacket, and the swimming question answers itself before you finish reading the row. The … Read more
HONOLULU · JULY · 21.3° N July runs dry and bright on Oahu’s south shore. The official gauge logs 0.52 inches of rain for the entire month, the sun is up for thirteen hours and twenty minutes in mid-July, and the sea off Waikiki averages 79.3°F. What the month takes back is elbow room: the … Read more
HONOLULU · APRIL · 21.3° N April is the month Honolulu dries out. The gauge at the airport collects 2.36 inches in an average March and 0.77 inches in an average April, and that difference is the whole character of the trip: an afternoon you sketch at breakfast tends to survive the day. Highs average … Read more
PUNTA CANA · MAY · 18.58° N Punta Cana keeps its thermometer almost still all year and lets the rain column do the talking. In May the average high is 82.0°F and the average low 76.7°F, only 1.3°F above April on the high side, while precipitation nearly doubles: 4.09 inches against April’s 2.14. The shape … Read more
PUNTA CANA · OCTOBER · 18.58° N Punta Cana sells one thing above all in October, and it is the water: an average sea surface of 86.7°F, warmer than the air on any night of the month. The cost sits on the rain line. An average October records measurable rain on 12.7 days and 4.80 … Read more
