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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
PUNTA CANA · JULY · 18.58° N July in Punta Cana runs hot and level: an average high of 83.6°F, an average low of 78.7°F, and sea surface water at 85.2°F. The heat is not what decides the month. Rain does, at 3.74 inches spread over 9.3 days that record at least a tenth of … Read more
PUNTA CANA · JUNE · 18.58° N The June normals for Punta Cana read 83.4°F by day and 78.3°F at night, with 2.94 inches of rain falling across 8.2 wet days. Offshore, the sea averages 84.9°F. Those four numbers carry most of a June trip: water you walk straight into, evenings that never ask for … Read more
CANCUN · JULY · 21.2° N July is the month Cancun’s sea and sky meet in the middle. The water off the city averages 85.0°F, the afternoon air 85.7°F, and the gap between them is small enough that walking into the Caribbean registers as nothing at all. The same month brings 4.41 inches of rain … Read more
PUNTA CANA · APRIL · 18.58° N April in Punta Cana averages a high of 80.7°F and a low of 75.2°F, with 2.14 inches of rain falling across about six days. The sea off the coast averages 81.4°F, and April 15 carries 12 hours 37 minutes of daylight, from a 6:15 am sunrise to a … Read more
