Climate averages 1991–2020

Santiago de los Caballeros weather
in October.

A hot, moderately wet month: the 5th warmest and the joint 10th driest of the year.

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

Average high 31.1°C Daytime mean, October

Average low 22.0°C Night-time mean, October

Rainfall 81 mm 15 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

October is a hot month in Santiago de los Caballeros: daytime highs average 31.1°C and nights cool to about 22.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 81 mm of rain on roughly 15 days, which makes October a moderately wet month (the joint 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 43 min on an average October day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is La Vega (31 km away). In October its highs average 30.5°C, 0.6°C cooler than Santiago de los Caballeros, with 68 mm of rain.

Among the 14 cities listed in the Dominican Republic, Santiago de los Caballeros ranks 1st of 14 for the warmest October highs and 3rd of 14 for the driest October (rainfall, lowest first). The mean October high of those 14 cities is 29.6°C; Santiago de los Caballeros is 1.5°C warmer than that mean.

From October to November, average highs fall by 2.2°C to 28.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 81 mm to 64 mm.

The annual picture

October 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

Santiago de los Caballeros climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Santiago de los Caballeros, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	27.5°C19.1°C	19.1°C	37	7.6	11.111 h
February	28.2°C19.2°C	19.2°C	34	7.0	11.511 h
March	29.1°C19.4°C	19.4°C	48	9.1	12.012 h
April	30.0°C20.5°C	20.5°C	72	12.4	12.613 h
May	30.8°C21.5°C	21.5°C	99	16.8	13.013 h
June	32.4°C22.5°C	22.5°C	49	11.1	13.313 h
July	32.7°C23.0°C	23.0°C	33	9.4	13.213 h
August	33.0°C23.1°C	23.1°C	52	10.8	12.813 h
September	32.5°C22.6°C	22.6°C	81	14.7	12.312 h
October, selected	31.1°C22.0°C	22.0°C	81	15.1	11.712 h
November	28.8°C20.9°C	20.9°C	64	12.8	11.211 h
December	27.8°C19.7°C	19.7°C	37	7.8	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

October in nearby cities

Distance from Santiago de los Caballeros

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 Santiago de los Caballeros) is explained once on the Santiago de los Caballeros year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.