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DOMINICAN REPUBLIC · PUNTA CANA · 18.58° N Punta Cana has no cold season to plan around. January, the coolest of the twelve months, averages a high of 78.9°F, and August and September, the warmest, reach 84.1°F. That is 5.2°F of range for an entire year, which leaves the beach chair usable in any month … Read more
CANCUN · DECEMBER · 21.2° N December in Cancun runs 78.7°F by day and 73.3°F at night, with 2.10 inches of rain spread across 5.8 days. The sea off the hotel zone averaged 81.5°F. What the month takes back is light: 10 hours 54 minutes on December 15, with the sun gone by about 6:09 … Read more
CANCUN · OCTOBER · 21.17° N Cancun in October is a swimming month with a raincoat clause. The sea off the Hotel Zone averages 85.2°F, warmer than the air on any October night, and an average month records measurable rain on 15 days. Neither figure describes a ruined week. Together they describe a trip that … Read more
CANCUN · AUGUST · 21.17° N Book Cancun for August and you are buying warm water and a very long day. The sea off the hotel zone averages 84.8°F, daytime highs sit at 85.8°F, and the nights only fall back to 79.4°F. The trade arrives in inches: 5.75 of them across the month, spread over … Read more
CANCUN · SEPTEMBER · 21.17° N Cancun in September is a warm-water month with a wet ledger. The ERA5 reanalysis for the grid cell over the city puts the average high at 84.7°F and the average low at 78.5°F, with 8.08 inches of rain falling across 18.7 days that record at least a tenth of … Read more
CANCUN · JUNE · 21.17° N June arrives in Cancun with the sea already at bath temperature and the sky starting to negotiate. Average highs sit at 84.6°F, the water off the hotel zone averages 84.1°F, and the rain that barely showed up in May turns into 6.59 inches spread over roughly fourteen days. The … Read more
