Weekly note
Santo Domingo
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Photo by Martin Falbisoner, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The numbers

Daily high31°C
Nightly low24°C
Feels like, afternoon36°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more8 · 134 mm
Humidity81%
Sunshine11.2 h/day
Daylight13.1 h/day
Days over 35°C0
Crowds100 / 100, higher is quieter

Ten-year averages for this calendar month. A rainy day is one with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts it. The model these figures come from drizzles more than a rain gauge, the more so the warmer the month, so its days count from 2 mm, rising to 5 mm in the hottest.

Weather read at the Colonial Zone, 23 km from the airport (SDQ): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

July: about usual. Busiest in January and March; quietest in May and October.

Santo Domingo in pictures

What to pack

  • Summer clothes by day, highs around 31°C.
  • A packable rain jacket for the 8 or so rainy days.
  • Sun protection: about 11 hours of sunshine a day.
  • Humidity averages 81%; breathable fabrics dry faster.

Each line is a threshold over the ten-year figures above, not advice from anywhere else.

Before you go

Cost of livingvery cheap — prices run about 39% of the United States' (World Bank, 2025)
CurrencyDominican peso
LanguagesSpanish
PlugsType A and B, 110 V
DrivingOn the right
Calling code+1809
Travel advice No advice against travel — UK Foreign Office, updated 2026-08-07
HealthUK Foreign Office health advice

Facts from Wikidata (CC0), the UK Foreign Office (Open Government Licence) and the World Bank, refreshed 2026-10-08. The advisory is written for British travellers; entry rules depend on your passport.

On arrival in Santo Domingo: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.

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