Climate averages 1991–2020

Punta Cana weather
in January.

A warm, fairly dry month: the coolest and the 3rd driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 26.0°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 23.7°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 39 mm 12 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 11 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a warm month in Punta Cana: daytime highs average 26.0°C and nights cool to about 23.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 39 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 09 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Salvaleón de Higüey (32 km away). In January its highs average 27.0°C, 1.0°C warmer than Punta Cana, with 27 mm of rain.

Among the 14 cities listed in the Dominican Republic, Punta Cana ranks 14th of 14 for the warmest January highs and 12th of 14 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 14 cities is 27.3°C; Punta Cana is 1.4°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.1°C to 26.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 39 mm to 31 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Punta Cana climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Punta Cana, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	26.0°C23.7°C	23.7°C	39	12.0	11.111 h
February	26.1°C23.5°C	23.5°C	31	9.9	11.512 h
March	26.3°C23.5°C	23.5°C	36	9.8	12.012 h
April	27.0°C24.1°C	24.1°C	51	11.4	12.613 h
May	27.7°C24.9°C	24.9°C	100	16.6	13.013 h
June	28.5°C25.8°C	25.8°C	71	15.2	13.213 h
July	28.6°C26.0°C	26.0°C	90	18.1	13.113 h
August	28.9°C26.1°C	26.1°C	105	18.6	12.813 h
September	28.9°C26.0°C	26.0°C	121	18.9	12.312 h
October	28.3°C25.6°C	25.6°C	117	20.9	11.712 h
November	27.3°C24.9°C	24.9°C	103	17.6	11.311 h
December	26.5°C24.3°C	24.3°C	52	13.0	11.011 h

Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.

Compare places

January in nearby cities

Distance from Punta Cana

Read the numbers correctly

Climate, not a promise.

These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.

Sources, method and limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Punta Cana) is explained once on the Punta Cana year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.