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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
HONOLULU · BEST TIME TO VISIT · 21.3° N Honolulu’s year moves less than almost any American city’s. Measured by average highs, 8.3°F separates August (88.8°F) from January and February (80.5°F), and the ocean off the south shore never averages below 76°F in any month. So the question is rarely whether the weather will cooperate. … Read more
PUNTA CANA · DECEMBER · 18.6° N December 15 in Punta Cana runs to 11 hours and 4 minutes of daylight, over a sea averaging 82.1°F and under an average daytime high of 79.8°F. The month’s rainfall, 2.24 inches, falls on about six days out of thirty-one. Nights barely cool: the average low is 75.7°F, … Read more
PUNTA CANA · NOVEMBER · 18.58° N In November the sea off Punta Cana averages 84.5°F while the air peaks around 81.3°F, which makes the water the warmer surface for most of the day. The month falls between two crowds, with the summer families long gone and the Christmas arrivals not yet checked in, and … Read more
PUNTA CANA · SEPTEMBER · 18.58° N Punta Cana in September averages 84.1°F by day and 78.6°F at night, and the sea off the beach runs 86.6°F. Those three numbers sit within a degree of August. What moves is the sky: 5.08 inches of rain over the month, measurable on 11.9 days, the biggest rainfall … Read more
PUNTA CANA · AUGUST · 18.6° N August in Punta Cana is hot, humid and extremely swimmable. The 1991-2020 normals give the month an average high of 84.1°F and an average low of 78.9°F, the sea surface averages 85.5°F, and rain falls on about eleven days out of thirty-one. Nobody flies here in August for … Read more
