Climate averages 1991–2020

Salvaleón de Higüey weather
in January.

A warm, fairly dry month: the coolest and the 2nd driest of the year.

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

Average high 27.0°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 21.6°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 27 mm 9 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 11 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a warm month in Salvaleón de Higüey: daytime highs average 27.0°C and nights cool to about 21.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 27 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (the 2nd 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 Punta Cana (32 km away). In January its highs average 26.0°C, 1.0°C cooler than Salvaleón de Higüey, with 39 mm of rain.

Among the 14 cities listed in the Dominican Republic, Salvaleón de Higüey ranks 11th of 14 for the warmest January highs and 5th of 14 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 14 cities is 27.3°C; Salvaleón de Higüey is 0.3°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.4°C to 27.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 27 mm to 23 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

Salvaleón de Higüey climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Salvaleón de Higüey, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	27.0°C21.6°C	21.6°C	27	9.1	11.111 h
February	27.4°C21.4°C	21.4°C	23	7.9	11.512 h
March	28.0°C21.4°C	21.4°C	31	8.6	12.012 h
April	28.8°C22.2°C	22.2°C	49	12.1	12.613 h
May	29.3°C23.1°C	23.1°C	98	16.0	13.013 h
June	30.0°C24.1°C	24.1°C	66	14.0	13.213 h
July	30.2°C24.4°C	24.4°C	72	14.9	13.113 h
August	30.3°C24.5°C	24.5°C	88	17.0	12.813 h
September	30.2°C24.2°C	24.2°C	107	18.2	12.312 h
October	29.4°C23.7°C	23.7°C	107	20.3	11.712 h
November	28.1°C22.9°C	22.9°C	82	16.0	11.311 h
December	27.3°C22.3°C	22.3°C	37	11.6	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 Salvaleón de Higüey

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 Salvaleón de Higüey) is explained once on the Salvaleón de Higüey year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.