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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
HONOLULU · MARCH · OAHU’S SOUTH SHORE March in Honolulu averages a high of 81.2°F, a low of 68.1°F and 2.36 inches of rain, with the sea surface off the south shore sitting at 76.0°F. Those four numbers settle most of the trip before you pack. The water is swimmable from the first morning, the … Read more
HONOLULU · FEBRUARY · 21.3° N Honolulu’s February normals read 80.5°F by day, 67.1°F at night, and 1.94 inches of rain spread across about three days that record anything at all. That is the leeward south shore, measured at the airport gauge, and it is the version of Oahu most travelers book a winter flight … Read more
